How much do you have to pay for the privilege? Are you sitting down? It’s $129.99 a year at network Solutions!

Wow! Sounds like a deal to me! NOT! I guess if you’re dumb enough to think that you can make any money with adult content anymore, you’re probably dumb enough to buy one of these lame domains.

Just in case you’re the kind of person that waters your driveway or believes in the supernatural, here is the link so you can spend your hard earned cash on a useless URL. Hey, we need people like you to stimulate the economy so, get your domain today!

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydotnetdomain.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydotcomdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

This is how you ALLOW access to a range of IP addresses:
# 211
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED -s 64.1111.222.0/24 –dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT  -p tcp -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED -d 64.111.222.0/24 –sport 22 -j ACCEPT

/etc/init.d/restart

//CREATE THE NEW TARGET DATABASE
create database new_database;

//CHANGE TO THE NEW DATABASE
use new_database;

//Create each table that you want to duplicate into the new database
CREATE TABLE address_book LIKE old_database.address_book;

//Populate the new table
INSERT INTO address_book SELECT * FROM old_database.address_book;

//VERIFY THE RESULTS
describe address_book;

select * from address_book;

Boot from CD Rom – used graphical installation

/*** PARTITIONING ***/

Choose “Auto Partition”
Remove all partitions

No boot loader password

/*** NETWORKING ***/
Click “Edit”
CHECK ONLY IPv4 support

Uncheck “DHCP”
Add Static IP: 66.77.222.33 (GET THESE NETWORK SETTINGS FROM YOUR HOST OR NETWORK ADMIN)
Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Set Hostname Manually:
obama.iamthepresident.com

Gateway: 66.77.222.1
Primary DNS: 66.77.222.7
Secondary DNS: 66.77.222.8

/*** TIMEZONE ***/
“America/Los_Angeles” (Choose your own timezone)
check: “System Clock uses UTC”

set root password

/*** Customize Software Packages ***/
Choose:

DESKTOPS
Gnome Desktop Environment
SERVER
Click: customize now

DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS
Gnome – choose defaults
APPLICATIONS
Authoring & Publishing – choose defaults
Editors – choose defaults
Graphical Internet – choose defaults
Graphics – choose defaults
Text Based Internet – choose defaults
DEVELOPMENT
Development Libraries – choose defaults
Development Tools – choose defaults
SERVERS
Mail Server – choose defaults
MySQL Database – mod_auth_mysql
+ php-mysql
+ mysql_devel
+ choose defaults
Web Server + mod_authz_ldap
+ php_odbc
+ choose defaults
BASE SYSTEM
Base – choose defaults
Xwindows System – All Xorg packages
+ choose defaults

- completed -

SYSTEM REBOOTS

/*** post install tasks ***/

/**********************************************/
NOTE: You must disable the firewall and disable SElinux – Thank me later
/*********************************************/

Firewall: Disabled

SELinux: Disabled

Enable NTP:

adduser smith (Choose your own user name)

chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig sshd on

[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd start

[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start

nano /etc/aliases (nano is my text editor of choice. Use whatever one you like)

Edit this file:
# Person who should get root’s mail
root: agentsmith@not-a-real-hostname.com

Edit this file:

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

edit file to say this:
Listen 66.77.222.33:80 (Again, this IP is from your Network Administrator)

ServerAdmin agentsmith@not-a-real-hostname.com

ServerName 66.77.222.33:80

<Directory “/var/www/html”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AccessFileName .htaccess

<Files ~ “^.ht”>
Satisfy ALL
# Order allow,deny
# Deny from all
</Files>

/*** Update the system packages ***/
yum update

- completed -

/****************************/

Now, create your backup scripts and secure your machine (with firewall and system hardening) before it is live in the production environment.