Linux Server How To - A Guide to Administering a Linux Server

Welcome to Linux Server How To

Hello and welcome to Linux Server How To, a practical guide on How To Setup, Configure, Manage and Secure a Linux Server for home, educational or business use. Linux Server How to aims to provide a series of easy to read tutorials that will show the reader how to perform many different tasks ranging from securing your Linux server to installing software that allows the server to perform different roles such as web server, DNS server, file server and more.

Linux Server How To is currently a running work in progress due to the monumental task of creating a web site that aims to be as informative as Linux Server How To shall be. You are currently viewing edition two of this site and additional sections shall be added to the site as time progresses documenting how to install, configure and maintain many of the additional software packages that can be installed onto a Linux server. Additional sections shall be added at 2-4 week intervals so if you are unable to find the information you seek during your current visit chances are it will be available at a future date. The majority of the How To documents on Linux Server How To are original tutorials created by the sites author and they are accompanied wherever possible with HOWTO's from the Linux Documentation Project to complement the readers learning experience.

Linux Server How To is written in plain english so that newcomers to the Linux operating system can jump in and start learning. We recommend to those who are just getting their first taste of Linux to consider finding a spare PC and install Linux on it so that can familiarize themselves with this powerful and useful operating system outside of a production environment.