Ok i'm not feeling like an idiot this time.

[MageBeowulf]

Alright. Servers are supposed to come with apache and ftp right? Neither apache is installed on the server and a ftp server doesn't seem to be installed. If they were supposed to come with it are they going to be installed and brought online or do I have to start them some way i'm not familliar with? Or should I use a support ticket to get it taken care of?

[QT]

What OS and Control Panel (if any)?

[MageBeowulf]

Its Debian and the control panel is Webmin

[knightfoo]

Debian servers don't have much of anything installed. The only services running by default are SSH and Webmin. This is done intentionally because a) most Debian users would just remove whatever we install anyway and b) it takes 2 commands and about 30 seconds to install just about any package you could ever want. You should become very familiar with the apt-get, apt-cache, and dpkg commands.

-knightfoo

[MageBeowulf]

dang I guess I didn't know what I was getting myself into with debian I should have just gone with redhat lol

[QT]

Originally posted by MageBeowulf
dang I guess I didn't know what I was getting myself into with debian I should have just gone with redhat lol

# su -
<enter root password>
# apt-get update
# apt-get install apache
# apt-get install proftpd

Debian's apt-get feature is wonderful and simple . :)

[MageBeowulf]

Wow that apt-get command is amazing, is there a list of packages that you can get with it?

[knightfoo]

"apt-cache search" lets you search through packages based on keywords. There are over 5,000 packages available in "stable" and around 10,000 packages available in "unstable", so it would be quite a list. The file /var/lib/dpkg/available has a list of all currently available packages, but you're better off using "apt-cache search" to find what you're looking for. There is also a package search tool on the Debian web site (http://debian.org/distrib/packages).

-knightfoo