VPSLink

Prerequisites

• Apache 2.x
• MySQL 5.0.X - NOTE: Deki Wiki Hayes uses stored procedures and is therefore incompatible with MySQL 4.x
• PHP 5.X - NOTE: Deki Wiki Hayes uses the PHP5 object model and is therefore incompatible with PHP4
• Mono 1.2.X

*) Login to your vpslink control panel here https://cp.vpslink.com/  with your Email address and password supplied to you by vpslink

*) Goto

Manage Server ->  Manage OS -> Install OS

from the "New Operating System" dropdown list select Debian 4.0 "Etch" 

*) Change your root password to something secure if not already 

 Manage Server -> Change Root Password

NOTE: 12345 is not a good strong password...neither is abcdef

Loggin on to your vpslink server

*) Open a terminal window on your local machine

*) Login as root to your vpslink server via ssh 

I know root terminal sessions is a BIG NOOoooo!!!! You can find some help here. http://wiki.vpslink.com/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Base_installation_and_configuration

ssh root@111.11.111.11

*) Enter your password at promt and you should be logged in

Update software repositories and system

*) Configure sources.list

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

*) Delete the following lines

deb http://ftp.freenet.de/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free 

 *) Add the following lines

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

*) Execute the following command

apt-get udpate 

*) Install locales, if not already installed

apt-get install locales

You'll notice the following warnings while installing locales, but don't worry we'll fix it soon

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

 *) Once that is finished, you need to configure your local time zone with tzconfig

tzconfig

My settings where for 'Africa/Johannesburg'. Yours will be different. If everything went smoothly, it should display something like this

Your default time zone is set to 'Africa/Johannesburg'.
Local time is now:      Fri Oct 26 16:26:57 SAST 2007.
Universal Time is now:  Fri Oct 26 14:26:57 UTC 2007.

*)  Execute the following commands to get rid of that nasty perl warnings

export LC_CTYPE=C
export LC_MESSAGES=C
export LC_ALL=C

*) Then you need to reconfigure locales with this command

dpkg-reconfigure locales 

*) Select the correct setting from the list. Mine was set for South Africa. Yours will be different

en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8 

*) Execute the following command to finalise the updates

apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

Hayes Deki-Wiki installation

*) Install the prerequisites

apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt 
php5-mhash php5-gd php5-curl imagemagick wv pdftohtml html2text html2ps htmldoc aspell 
links php-pear curl mysql-server-5.0

*) Install mono

apt-get install mono-gmcs mono-mcs libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil

*) set your mysql root password (if this is the first time you've installed mysql)

mysql -e "set password=PASSWORD('your_root_password')"