Running applications (@software) on Slackware… most are applicable to all distributions.

There are a couple (a few?)of applications that I thought have great features but relatively unknown (I only knew about them after looking for specific solution). Here they are:

• xfig - nice app to create figures for use with latex
• xpaint - can do screen capture (xpaint -snapshot)

Modify httpd config file:

• change document root to a folder my main user have full access
  • also create a link to it from my user account
• allow php to be indexed ⇒ add to directory index in dir_module
• enable php (towards the end of the file) ⇒ include mod_php.conf
• enable mod_rewrite (API server?) ⇒ LoadModule … mod_rewrite.so
• optional: set serveradmin email and servername
• optional: to only serve locally, set listen localhost:80 ???

More modifications for https:

• enable loadmodule mod_ssl.so
• enable loadmodule mod_socache_shmcb.so

• generate private key:

  • openssl genrsa -out privkey.pem 2048

  • rsa private key with 2048-bit long modulus written to file
• generate cert:

  • openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095

• include httpd-ssl.conf
  • modify httpd-ssl.conf accordingly…

• run

  mysql_install_db

• make sure permision given to user mysql

  chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql

• start daemon rc.mysqld
• run

  /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

• create specific database for specific app

  create database app_db;

• create specific user for specific app and grant all access

  grant all privileges on app_db.* to 'user_app'@'localhost' identified by 'pass_app';

• just formality, run

  flush privileges;

• to additionally create specific user for specific app

  create user 'user_app'@'localhost' identified by 'pass_app';

• recover root password:
• stop daemon rc.mysqld
• run

  # mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
  # mysql -u root
  $ mysql -uroot -p
  mysql> use mysql;
  mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD('<newpass>') where User='root';
  mysql> flush privileges;
  mysql> exit