With Cloud some of these tasks are automated via scripts – There are occassions where we feel such scripts could be quite handy. So here is my version and if any one can make use of it.

Amazon EC2 : You can probably spin a virtualmininstance.

But with other cloud – you have no way of spinning  a pre built image. I tend to use

http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh

chmod +a install.sh

./install.sh

This will install virtualmin. Great way to get some per-requisites installed upfront

Create users – you can use virtualmin to create users or alternatively use useradd <username>

Giving write access to all users

o best share with multiple users who should be able to write in /var/www, it should be assigned a common group. For example the default group for web content on Ubuntu and Debian is www-data. Make sure all the users who need write access to /var/www are in this group.

sudo usermod -a -G www-data <some_user>

Then set the correct permissions on /var/www.

sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www

Additionally, you should make the directory and all directories below it “set GID”, so that all new files and directories created under /var/www are owned by the www-data group.

sudo find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;    

Find all files in /var/www and add read and write permission for owner and group:

sudo find /var/www -type f -exec chmod ug+rw {} \;

You might have to log out and log back in to be able to make changes if you’re editing permission for your own account.

The following command is quite handy to take care of dreaded warning server cannot be bound

echo ServerName $HOSTNAME > /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn

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