[CentOS] Re: centos and http

[Dave]

Hi,
    What version of centos do you have? I'm trying to find the single dvd 
image of either 4.5 or 5, what's the difference btw? I'd rather not have to 
mount 6 different isos when i could just get the dvd, but 
mirror.atlantic.net doesn't seem to have it. do you know where i can get the 
dvd iso image?
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MrKiwi" <mrkiwi at gmail.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 10:38 PM
Subject: [CentOS] Re: centos and http


>
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>    Thanks for your reply. Yah i do have apache running, your idea 
>>>> certainly would make things easier. How did you set up the http area? 
>>>> And where in it do you put the kickstart? I'd like this area to be 
>>>> accessible to my local network only, internet users shouldn't be able 
>>>> to access it or better yet even know it's there.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>> i downloaded the centos5 iso, then;
>>>
>>> mount /path/to/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso var/www/html/cd/0 -o loop,ro
>>>
>>> This gives you access to the install stuff at http://your.server.ip/cd/0 
>>> (i have centos4 at /cd/1 and other isos at /cd/2 and /cd/3 - keep your 
>>> paths short to save typing!)
>>>
>>> Then you have to host the kickstart file too - i put mine at the root 
>>> (/var/www/html ) but you may find it tidier to put it at 
>>> /var/www/html/ks or similar.
>>>
>>> Then (bc you want to limit access) in your httpd.conf you will need a 
>>> section like this (someone please correct this if it's wrong)
>>>
>>> <Location /ks>
>>> order deny,allow
>>>         deny from all
>>> allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
>>> </Location>
>>> <Location /cd>
>>> allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
>>> order deny,allow
>>>         deny from all
>>> </Location>
>>>
>>> Then you're ready to boot from any bootable v5 cd - i use cd 1 of 6 from 
>>> the CentOS5 set of CD isos
>>>
>>> At the prompt i think it is
>>> #linux ks=http://your.ip/ks/whatever.cfg
>>>
>>> whatever.cfg would look like this;
>>>
>>> Note: Edit a least the following lines;
>>> url, rootpw, timezone
>>>
>>> You may want to grab anaconda.cfg from the root folder of your most 
>>> recently installed CentOS5 installation and compare the lines (esp 
>>> rootpw and timezone to get the spelling right)
>>>
>>> You may also want to comment out rootpw and the partition lines so that 
>>> you are prompted to fill these in by hand.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> MrKiwi
>>>
>>>
>>> #========================================================
>>> # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
>>>
>>> install
>>> url --url http://your.ip/cd/0
>>> lang en_US.UTF-8
>>> keyboard us
>>> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
>>> rootpw --iscrypted blahblahblah
>>> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
>>> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
>>> selinux --disabled
>>> timezone Pacific/Auckland
>>> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda
>>> # The following is the partition information you requested
>>> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
>>> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
>>> # not guaranteed to work
>>> clearpart --linux --drives=sda
>>> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
>>> part pv.9 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
>>> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.9
>>> logvol / --fstype 
>>> ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
>>> logvol swap --fstype 
>>> swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984
>>>
>>> %packages
>>> @base
>>> @core
>>> @editors
>>> #========================================================
>>>
>>>
>> Dave wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    Thanks for your informative reply. I'll definitely go for that. One 
>> thing, my web server area doesn't have 4+gb of room on it for this dvd. 
>> What i'd like to do is have the mount point in /var/www/html/cd/0 like 
>> you do, but 0 is a symlink to another drive in this case 
>> /mnt/dvd-centos5, that's where the dvd will be mounted. But i don't think 
>> apache will follow symlinks in this case, have you ever tried this?
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>
> If the section <location /cd> contains the directive
> Options FollowSymLinks
> then it will (provided the perms allow this)
>
> There may be a simpler way - quicker too;
>
> Just setup as i mentioned but rather than mount the iso on /cd/0 , mount 
> like this;
>
> mount /mnt/dvd-centos5 /var/www/html/cd/0
>
> You can mount the centos stuff in multiple places too - i think maybe 
> "options ro" may make this faster? as the webserver will only ever be 
> reading the rpms etc from the centos5 area.
>
> Even simpler;
>
> If the centos data is its own partition/drive, just mount it right in the 
> html folder from the get-go;
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /var/www/html/cd/0
>
> Regards,
>
> MrKiwi
>
> ps - pls make sure you reply to the list so everyone can benefit from the 
> solution, and bottom post too.
>
>
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