Media Temple Dedicated Server Setup: Media Temple, Linux

• Part 1: Media Temple Dedicated Server Setup
• Part 2: Installing Subversion on Apache
• Part 3: Subversion (SVN) Authentication and Auto Update

I wanted a web hosting server that I can hyper-tweak to my needs. So I opted for a dedicated server with Media Temple. I have little knowledge in linux, but I am going to embark on this road to server greatness. I want to get these things on my server to start: subversion, PHP5 and MySQL5 (PHP5 comes pre-installed now). Here I'll walk through my experience setting up my dedicated virtual (dv) server.

You have to request admin access and dev tools to be installed. So I sent a support ticket and it took a day. Here is a list of the dev tools that are installed.

Opened VI (text editor) as part of the tutorial and couldn't figure out how to get out of it once you start editing a file. So I found this article which told me to exit by hitting ESC than typing :x http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/vi.html

Than I had to learn Putty/Linux so I looked up my commands here: http://www.ss64.com/bash/

Some good, general commands...

Bash:

ls ...list directories
mkdir <name> ...create a directory
rm <filename> ...remove file
wget <url> ...get a package
cp <file> <directory> ...copy file to directoy

That's it for day one of my dedicated server setup.