Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On OpenSUSE 11.3

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This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on OpenSUSE 11.3. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I'm using two OpenSUSE systems here:

NFS Server: server.example.com, IP address: 192.168.0.100 NFS Client: client.example.com, IP address: 192.168.0.101

 

2 Installing NFSserver:

On the NFS server we run:

yast2 -i nfs-kernel-server

Then we create the system startup links for the NFS server and start it:

chkconfig --add nfsserver
/etc/init.d/nfsserver start

client:

On the client we can install NFS as follows:

yast2 -i nfs-client

 

3 Exporting Directories On The Serverserver:

I'd like to make the directories /home and /var/nfs accessible to the client; therefore we must "export" them on the server.

When a client accesses an NFS share, this normally happens as the user nobody. Usually the /home directory isn't owned by nobody (and I don't recommend to change its ownership to nobody!), and because we want to read and write on /home, we tell NFS that accesses should be made as root (if our /home share was read-only, this wouldn't be necessary). The /var/nfs directory doesn't exist, so we can create it and change its ownership to nobody and nogroup:

mkdir /var/nfs
chown nobody:nogroup /var/nfs

Now we must modify /etc/exports where we "export" our NFS shares. We specify /home and /var/nfs as NFS shares and tell NFS to make accesses to /home as root (to learn more about /etc/exports, its format and available options, take a look at

man 5 exports

)

vi /etc/exports

# See the exports(5) manpage for a description of the syntax of this file.# This file contains a list of all directories that are to be exported to# other computers via NFS (Network File System).# This file used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. See their manpages for details# on how make changes in this file effective./home 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)/var/nfs 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

(The no_root_squash option makes that /home will be accessed as root.)

Whenever we modify /etc/exports, we must run

exportfs -a

afterwards to make the changes effective.

 

4 Mounting The NFS Shares On The Clientclient:

First we create the directories where we want to mount the NFS shares, e.g.:

mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/home
mkdir -p /mnt/nfs/var/nfs

Afterwards, we can mount them as follows:

mount 192.168.0.100:/home /mnt/nfs/home
mount 192.168.0.100:/var/nfs /mnt/nfs/var/nfs

You should now see the two NFS shares in the outputs of

df -h

client:

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 11.3

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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I'm using an OpenSUSE 11.3 server with the IP address 192.168.0.100 here.

 

2 Installing WebDAV

If Apache is not already installed, install it as follows:

yast2 -i apache2

Afterwards, enable the WebDAV modules:

a2enmod dav
a2enmod dav_fs
a2enmod dav_lock

Then create the system startup links for Apache and start it:

chkconfig --add apache2

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

 

3 Creating A Virtual Host

I will now create an Apache vhost www.example1.com in the directory /srv/www/web1/web. If you already have a vhost for which you'd like to enable WebDAV, you must adjust this tutorial to your situation.

First, we create the directory /srv/www/web1/web and make the Apache user (wwwrun) and group (www) the owner of that directory:

mkdir -p /srv/www/web1/web
chown wwwrun:www /srv/www/web1/web

Now we create the Apache vhost for www.example1.com:

vi /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/www.example1.com.conf

Installing PHP5 Debugger On OpenSUSE 11.3

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This tutorial shows how to install php5 debugger (xdebug) on OpenSUSE11.3.

I suppose you have installed Apache2 and PHP5 packages through zypper or yast. If not, please run:

zypper install php5 apache2 apache2-mod_php5

The reasonI use xdebug is, as far as I know now, xdebug supports php 5.3 or above.

I have the following installation environment:

OS: OpenSUSE 11.3 32 bit

Webserver: Apache 2.2.15 linux/suse

PHP: 5.3.2, with xdebug 2.1.0

Now let's begin (I runthe following step as root, although you may not need it for some steps).

Step 1. Download xdebug 2.1.0 from http://www.xdebug.org/files/xdebug-2.1.0.tgz into /tmp directory, run tar command to unzip it, and cd into the xdebug2.1.0 directory:

cd /tmp

tar zxvf xdebug-2.1.0.tgz && cd xdebug-2.1.0

Step 2. Install additional packages before compiling xdebug, for my system, I need gcc, make, and php5-devel:

zypper install gcc make php5-devel

Step 3.  Make sure /usr/bin/phpize and /usr/bin/php-config exist (soft links to /etc/alternative/):

ls -l /usr/bin/php

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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3

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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.

 

2 Installing MySQL 5

First we install MySQL 5 like this:

yast2 -i mysql mysql-client mysql-community-server

Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:

chkconfig --add mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start

Now check that networking is enabled. Run

netstat -tap

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