Step one: First get a VPS

get a Linux VPS. A VPS is shortened for Virtual Private Server. It’s not a whole machine (too costly!) but one portion of a machine. A 256 Ram VPS is about 60-90 USD a year and that’s all you have to pay. And if you manage to sell your VPN accounts, you can even make profits!

Recommended provider: http://www.enzu.com/account/aff.php?aff=184

You need to get a VPS with linux Centos (other systems will work but I only know centOS) installed. After purchasing you will get an IP for your VPS, and a SSH (never mind those terms. Nobody knows what they are) account.

One thing to remember though. You VPS has to be using Xen (again never mind these terms. Just look for Xen VPS) not openVZ. openVZ is a lot cheaper but it won’t work.

Step two: install PPTP server application on your VPS

Use Putty (software name) to log on to your remote VPS using the IP and SSH account provided. And you get a DOS like black Window with a command line like this:

Type at the command line:

wget https://breakwall.net/promo/pptpd.sh

And press enter
Then type at the command line:

bash pptpd.sh 

to run the script.

PPTP server application will be installed on your VPS. At the end of the installation, the script will create an VPN account for you (a username and a password).

That’s it. You now get your own VPN account on your own server! Now you can use the username and password and the IP of your server to log on. Of course you will need to do a simple set up on your Windows or iPad or Android phone like with a VPN account you get from a VPN service provider.

Step three: sell your VPN accounts!

I am just kidding. It takes a lot more to run a VPN business. But soon you will want to impress your friends by creating an VPN account on your server for them too!

It’s easy to add VPN accounts. Just edit a file “/etc/ppp/chap-secrets” on your folder. Wait.. how do you do that? You easiest way for people who are unfamiliar with linux is perhaps using FTP!

1. Download and install FileZilla (FTP client software).
2. Click “site manager” (the first button on the tool bar) and click add site
For Host field: type your server IP.
For Protocol: choose SFTP
For Login type: choose General
Then input your SSH account (not your VPN account!,the one that you VPS provider gives you) . The user name is usually “root”.
3. Click “Connect” and then you open your sever.
Go to /etc/ppp/ and then download the file “chap-secrets”. Edit that file with notepad and add a line:

newaccountname pptpd password *

4. Save the file and upload to the server to replace the old file.

Last but not least, you need to use you SSH account to log on your server command line using Putty again (like in step two) and then type:

service pptpd restart

For your new account to take effect.

I tried lots of time to find an OpenVPN client for my Windows Mobile phone and this one really works.
1. Download and unzip this file and then transfer the files to your phone:
http://dallascao.com/cn/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/openvpn.zip
2. Install the software in the following order:
a) ovpnppc.en.ARM.cab b)DaGong OpenVPN_Patch.cab c）Hosts.reg
3 Confirm the installation folder of OpenVPN. Mine is My Storage\Program Files\OpenVPN\
4 Edit the openVPN configuration files (ending with .ovpn) with a text editor like Notepad++.
5 Add full path to all .crt .key .txt file names inside the configuration files and separate folder names with double back slash \\. And put the file name with path inside quotation marks. For example, change
ca v10.crt to

ca "\\My Storage\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\Config\\v10.crt"

change key xxx.key to

key "\\My Storage\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\Config\\xxx.key"


6 delete

#route-delay
route-method exe


7. Copy the edited file to the Config folder of your OpenVPN installation folder in your cell phone.
8. Go back to “Today” desktop of your PPC. You will find a small screen icon on the bottom right. Click “utils” and then “setting”. Then you will find two “settings” inside. In the first one, uncheck “Try to ping servers on connect”. In the second “Settings” choose your internet connection. Finally Click “tap” and then click “tap device 1” and press “start”. You will get a message: “This adapter is already loaded”.
9. Click the little screen icon on the desktop –>Start from Config—>and click a server name.
10. A few seconds later, you will prompted “LAN discovered” and click OK. The little screen icon turns green.
11. Now you are connected to your OpenVPN server!

Here is a solution: submit a ticket to your provider:-)

I don’t want to bother those busy guys (almost always men) unless there is no other way. So if you are like me, follow those steps:

Step 1: Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add this line (if you are using Xen):

xen.independent_wallclock=1

Step 2: Save the file and exit and then run at the command line

sysctl -p

Step 3: Set up your local time. Go to the /usr/share/zoneinfo/ (easier on SFTP) and find your correct time zone file. Remember the location and file name (writing it in notepad or on paper). For example, mine is:

/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai

Then run the following code at the command line (Replacing /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai with yours)


rm -rf /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai /etc/localtime
yum install -y ntp
ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
date


Bingo! The time is correct, finally! But don’t be happy too early. You will still need to do one last step.

Step 4: Edit file /etc/rc.local and add the following line:

ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org

In this way, your VPS will sync time automatically with us.pool.ntp.org server, not local BIOS.

Step 1: SSH to your VPS console and install lftp

yum install lftp

Step 2: Create a folder on your ftp server that will hold the backup files.

Step 3: Edit the following script and unload it to your VPS, for example, /root/backup.sh

You will need to set the values like your root mysql account and ftp account, web folder to backup.


#!/bin/bash
#Author: licess
#Website: http://lnmp.org

lftp $FTP_HostName1 -u $FTP_UserName1,$FTP_PassWord1 << EOF
cd $FTP_BackupDir1
mrm $OldDBBackup
mput $TodayDBBackup
bye
EOF
#mput $TodayWWWBackup


4. Test out the script to see if it works as expected. You shall have files like www-xxxx-20120101-tar.gz and db-xxxx-20120101.sql on both your local backup dir and remote ftp backup dir.

Also notice that the script will delete backup files 3 days old.

5. Setup a crontab entry to make this script run automatically everyday.

crontab -e

Enter:
0 0 * * * bash /root/backup.sh

Save the file and exit.

Pureftpd error 553 Can't open that file: Permission denied

It has to do with the user and group permission. Solution:

1. Edit your Pure-ftpd account and set UID and GID to www (or any other).
2. SSH to root console. and run
chown -R www:www /home/backup

Replace “/home/backup” with your ftp folder. This command assigns userid www, usergroup www to be the the owner of that folder and all the folder underneath it (R = recursive)

Replace all “255″ with “100″

Done!

LNMP one-key package is a bunch of shell scripts that automate the installation of Nginx, PHP and MySQL server production environment. It’s written by Licess.
Please follow the steps carefully and leave a comment when in doubt.

To make the narrative easier, let’s suppose that you have a domain name: www.lovelyoldies.com that points to your server’s IP 199.180.252.249 . For easier administration, set up a second level domain name admin.lovelyoldies.com and point it to 199.180.252.249 too.

Connect to your VPS console using your root account (using Putty, Tunnelier, etc):

1. Create a temp directory under root if it is not there and go to that directory. This is where you will put the installation files.

mkdir /root/temp
cd /root/temp

2. Download the lnmp package and unpack and then enter the unpacked directory.

wget -c http://soft.vpser.net/lnmp/lnmp0.8.tar.gz
tar zxvf lnmp0.8.tar.gz
cd lnmp0.8/

3. Run the installation

./centos.sh

You will be prompted to enter a domain name. DO NOT enter your domain name that will be used for you site. In our example, enter admin.lovelyoldies.com or the IP address 199.180.252.249.
You will be prompted to enter a password for mysql root user. Enter a password and write it down. You will be using the user name root together with this password to log on to phpmyadmin.
Now, stand up from your computer and chat to your wife or play with your children. It’s going to take a while. During this time Nginx, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Zend will be installed.

After installation finishes, open http://admin.lovelyoldies.com with your web browser. A congratulation page appears (Sorry, it’s in Chinese).

All done! Bye!!

Wait… you will say…
If the congratulation page doesn’t appear, it means:

If you just set up the DNS record for your domain name, it’s going to take a while for it to point to the right IP. Of course, you don’t want to wait. Let’s make it effective immediately. Skip step four if your domain name is already pointed to the right IP.

4. If you are using Windows, go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and find the the file named “hosts” and open it with notepad. Add

199.180.252.249 lovelyoldies.com
199.180.252.249 www.lovelyoldies.com
199.180.252.249 admin.lovelyoldies.com


5. Now,the PHP and Ngix that has been installed is not the newest version. You may want to update them for security reasons. Run (you are now at /root/temp/lnmp0.8/):


./upgrade_nginx.sh

Enter the version number you want to upgrade to when prompted. Go to http://nginx.org/ to find available versions.


./upgrade_php.sh

Enter the version number you want to upgrade to when prompted. Go to http://php.net/ to find available versions.

6. Create a folder where you would like to upload your site. In our example, /home/web/lovelyoldies.com/


mkdir /home/web/lovelyoldies.com


7. Now we want our domain names to be tied to this folder. run:

/root/vhost.sh

Enter your domain name as prompted: lovelyoldies.com.
Then you are asked:”do you want to add more domain name?” Press y
Enter www.lovelyoldies.com as we want these two domain names to be the same site.
The you will be prompted: “Enter the directory name for the domain names” (something like this, you won’t miss it.)
Enter /home/web/lovelyoldies.com

8. Use your SFTP client (Tunnelier, FileZilla, etc) and upload your website to /home/web/lovelyoldies.com
All done! open http://lovelyoldies.com with your web browser! Bye

Wait… you will yell:-)

9. If you are installing a new wordpress site, you will need to go to (in our example):
http://admin.lovelyoldies.com/phpmyadmin

Log on using root and your root password (see step 3) for mySQL and create a database and optionally assign a user to that database.

Then run the wordpress installation.

You are likely to meet more issues like setting up SSL, url rewriting… (if you need these) but I am going stop here.

Bye…

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