lollercoaster's questions

I have 4 500GB hard drives.

I set up a RAID 10 in BIOS, much like shown here: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/RAID_SATA_ESB2.pdf

Then I followed these instructions: http://www.unrest.ca/Knowledge-Base/configuring-mdadm-raid10-for-ubuntu-910

Basically I cannot get it to work. I go through the instructions when I get to the "partition" section of the install, creating 4 RAID 1's (2 partitions on each drive, one for primary and one for swap space), then combining to make a RAID 10. Unfortunately it still shows 2 partitions, one 500 GB and another being 36GB for some reason. Any ideas?

I think best would be if anyone had found good instructions (step by step) for how to do this...I've been googling for hours and haven't found anything...

What are the functional differences between the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc files?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 i386. I use Cyberduck (FTP GUI client) to connect to my server mysub.domainname.com (changed here).

This is what I want to be able to do:

1) Change apache2 root from /var/www to /home/myuser/webroot to serve files like index.html

2) Allow FTP to write in /home/myuser/webroot

3) Allow myuser to login with his user/pass combo with FTP and read/write anywhere within myuser folder

Apache2 root folder works fine. Going to myserver.com/index.html works. But I can't get FTP to write, even though I changed these lines in etc/vsftpd.conf:

listen=YES
#listen_ipv6=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
#local_umask=022
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
#xferlog_std_format=YES
#idle_session_timeout=600
#data_connection_timeout=120
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#async_abor_enable=YES
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#deny_email_enable=YES
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
# chroot_list_enable below.
#chroot_local_user=YES
#chroot_local_user=YES
#chroot_list_enable=YES
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
pam_service_name=vsftpd
rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

The problem

Whenever I try to create a folder in /home/myuser or /home/myuser/webroot I get error Create directory operation failed. in my FTP program, Cyberduck.

Maybe helpful info:

drwxrwsr-x 2 myuser www-data 4096 2011-04-18 03:04 webroot

and I changed the permissions here too:

-rw-rwSr-- 1 myuser root 69 2011-04-18 02:14 index.html

...BUT no luck. I still can't upload or write using FTP. Any suggestions or pointers would be great, I'm pretty squarely lost on this one.

UPDATE:

I tried enabling anonymous logins for FTP, and I could not even get that to work...I think the only solution is to completely purge system of vsftpd and apache2 and just start over

I just can't figure it out. I'm running apache2 on a Ubuntu 10.04 i386 server. Whenever I visit my server (has an IP address, and is connected to internet with static IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) so that's not the problem) in browser, mysub.domain.edu (renamed here), I get the following:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server

The apache2 error log confirms this:

[Mon Apr 18 02:38:20 2011] [error] [client zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

I'll try to provide all necessary information below:

1) Contents of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

2) Contents of /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]

DocumentRoot /home/myusername/htdocs
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
<Directory "/home/myusername/htdocs/">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Satisfy any
</Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>
ServerName mysub.domain.edu

</VirtualHost>

3) Contents of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]

DocumentRoot /home/myusername/htdocs
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
<Directory "/home/myusername/htdocs/">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Satisfy any
</Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all 
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>
ServerName mysub.domain.edu

</VirtualHost> 

4) Result of ls -l (when I'm using sudo -i to be root):

root@myserver:/home/myusername# ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data root 4096 2011-04-18 03:04 htdocs

5) ps auxwww | grep -i apache

root@myserver:/home# ps auxwww | grep -i apache
root     15121  0.0  0.4   5408  2544 ?        Ss   16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 15122  0.0  0.3   5180  1760 ?        S    16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 15123  0.0  0.5 227020  2788 ?        Sl   16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 15124  0.0  0.5 227020  2864 ?        Sl   16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root     29133  0.0  0.1   3320   680 pts/0    R+   16:58   0:00 grep --color=auto -i apache

6) ls -al /home/myusername/htdocs/

root@myserver:/# ls -al /home/myusername/htdocs/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data   root       4096 2011-04-18 03:04 .
drw-r--r-- 4 myusername myusername 4096 2011-04-18 02:13 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root       root         69 2011-04-18 02:14 index.html

I'm not currently using any .htaccess files in my web root (htdocs) folder in my user folder.

I don't know what is wrong, I've been trying to fix his for over 12 hours and I've gotten nowhere. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears...