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Hi! I teach Linux server administration basics in college, on Centos. I've been thinking about writing an ebook or some sort of guide for other developers to get started with Linux/Centos. Would you care to share what kind of things you'd like to learn? Are you talking about real linux basics, maintaining software, setting up Apache, ... ?

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I've watched someone slowly learning sysadmin recently, and I think what would be really helpful is an easy way to understand what is needed, and why, for a basic LAMP server, with FTP and SSH for access, and iptables security basics. He started with installing a LAMP package and I see that it's scary for someone to start using the command line, modifying apache confs etc, when you have no idea what you are going to break where.

Hi,

Essentially getting apache up and running and actually understanding the commands I'm using, other things are ssh, setting up FTP and another thing that daunts me incredibly is setting up the virtual host, I find it so easy to break things when I don't know what I'm doing.

There are probably a couple things I missed out on but a noob to ninja type ebook would be great.

Thanks a lot

Sounds exactly like the basics I'm teaching my students. It isn't all that difficult to get started with linux once you know how to approach things. Thanks for the feedback, I'll think I might get started on an ebook that clearly builds things up.

Well, the thing is, he doesn't know what of all these he needs to learn. And there is no "book" or "tutorial" that can cover this.

Only way is the old and tested one... force yourself to use it, till you "get it". I don't know anyone who learned it some other way. And I know lots of sysadmins (and I have all the skills, though I'm a "DevOp")

I think that an ebook covering the process, start to finish, of configuring and securing a web server would be helpful.

I'm in a similar boat as the original poster; I'd love to learn the full LAMP setup process, how to use SSH correctly, how to set up domains/etc.

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