tilde.club/docs/how-to-set-up-a-tilde.md

Preamble

This document will talk you through setting up your own tilde.club flavoured server; the example domain.club is used below.

Prerequisites

• An Amazon AWS account, though any other cloud provider would work just as well.
• Your own domain
• A thirst for the unknown

Create an instance on Amazon EC2

• On AWS click Launch Instance
• Select Amazon Linux AMI
• Select t2.micro
• Select the (recommended) thingy in the popup
• Click Launch
• In Security Groups:
  • Right click on the security group used by your instance and:
    • Click Edit inbound rules
      • Add a rule for HTTP
      • Add a rule for SSH
  • Again, right click on the security group used by your instance and:
    • Click Edit outbound rules
      • Add a rule for HTTP
      • Add a rule for HTTPS
• In Elastic IPs:
  • Click Allocate New Address
  • Choose VPC on the dropdown (it won't work otherwise, I forget why)
  • Right click, Associate Address
  • Choose the instance you just created
• Create an A record at your domain name registrar to point at the Elastic IP then wait for those changes to propagate.

NOTE This could take up to 48 hours, use dig domain.club +nostats +nocomments +nocmd to see if you're in business.

SSH into your shiny instance using your pem file

• ssh -i security.pem ec2-user@domain.club
• yum update
• sudo yum remove java
• sudo yum install git

Change hostname

• sudo vim /etc/hosts change localhost.localdomain to domain.club
• sudo vim /etc/sysconfig/network change localhost.localdomain to domain.club
• sudo reboot

Allow passwords to log in

• sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config change PasswordAuthentication to yes
• sudo service sshd restart

Create a test user foo account and public_html folder

• sudo adduser foo
• sudo passwd foo
• sudo mkdir /home/foo/public_html
• sudo chown foo:foo /home/foo/public_html
• sudo chmod 755 /home/foo
• sudo chmod 755 /home/foo/public_html

Install Apache

• sudo yum install httpd
• sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start
• sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
  • comment out UserDir disabled
  • uncomment UserDir public_html
  • uncomment the Control access to UserDir directories block beginning with <Directory /home/*/public_html>
• sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Install other software

• yum install tmux
• yum install mutt
• yum install irssi
• yum install tree
• yum install lynx
• yum install finger
• etc