CentOS 7 Tips

 Posted on March 15, 2016  |  2 minutes  |  271 words  |  eucalypto

Manage additional Repositories

For CentOS 7 there exist additional repositories; for additional codecs for example. This website lists the most useful ones. I use the Nux-Dextop repository but I don’t want to have it turned on the whole time.

So I use

sudo yum-config-manager --enable nux-dextop

to enable this repo. And when I’m done installing or updating with yum, I use

sudo yum-config-manager --disable nux-dextop

to disable this repo again.

And with yum repolist you can see which repositories are currently enabled.

Git Server

To have a git server you just have to install git-daemon. Now you can use the computer as git server with ssh.

Lighttpd

Lighttpd is a light web server. In CentOS its package is in the EPEL repository. After installing this package you can run it with bash:

sudo systemctl start lighttpd.service

CentOS ships with a firewall. We have to configure it so that our server is accessible from outside:

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https

During the installation of Lighttpd, a new user is created: “lighttpd”. This is the same as “www-data” for apache. To find out where the document root of the server is supposed to be, have a look at /etc/passwd. There you will find the “home” directory of “lighttpd”: /var/www/lighttpd.

Now open /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and check if the document directory is in the right place:

var.server_root = "/var/www"
[...]
server.document-root = server_root + "/lighttpd"

Baikal

Baikal is a php based CalDav and CardDav server. It uses SQLite as database. So you need to make sure the following programs are installed:

  • SQLite
  • PHP (>5.3)
  • Some webserver (e.g. apache httpd.x86_64 or lighttpd)
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