The very first thing I did when I got to my login screen was to install openSSH.  This allows me to SSH to this server from my Mac in the other room.  In other words, I installed SSH so I could sit down and not be standing by the litter box all day. 

This install was going to be heavy on the terminal commands so I wanted to be ready.   I also decided to install the Ubuntu GUI just in case of disaster.  Linux has many ways to do things, and sometimes if one way doesnt seem to work another way to try it is helpful for me.   I installed the default GNOME desktop by typing:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

This took forever to install.  I sat there and watched it scroll by for a good ten minutes.  The entire time I was wondering if I should have done that or not.  On the up side I saw it install cd burning utilities and other things that could come in handy later on.  I did a control+alt+del at the server when it was done downloading and it rebooted with a standard Ubuntu desktop that looked the same as the standard desktop install, but now I had a web server on it.  W00t

Next up was to configure my network cards.  Just like on my last server I wanted to be able to see this computer on my network, but not let this computer use my networks internet connnection.  It would have it's own dedicated line to the outside world.  

I did this by plugging eth1 into my cable modem.  The server automatically set this one up as DHPC and pulled a IP.  Online and done with that step.

Next I went to the desktop of the server and went to /system/administration/network from the menus.  Here I configured the eth0 interface to be static and assigned it a address.  I filled in the rest of the blanks with my LAN info and closed.  After I reboot the server I was able to SSH to it locally, as well as ping the www.  

Shit, I am getting good at this.

Now it's time to install the package that took all this reconfiguring.  TorrentFlux.  

I gotta admit I totally muddled through this and really have no idea how I got it to work right.  I did a apt-get install and it went through the install but it errored out.  I tried to do a manual install and got a little confused.  Eventually I had it in my www directory and needed to setup a database for it.  I did that, edited some settings in the admin section of TorrentFlux and now it works.

I got shit lucky is all it is. 

TorrentFlux is a really fantastic script and I am really happy I went the extra mile to get it to work.  I will use it for the next few weeks and report back here if I dislike it for one reason or another. 

So far I am REALLY happy. 

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