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Optional Maintenance

Create new sudo account

Ubuntu Server does this by default

sudo adduser {username}
sudo usermod -aG sudo {username}

Disable root

Ubuntu Server does this by default

sudo passwd -l root

Change HOSTNAME

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname {hostname}
hostnamectl

sudo nano /etc/hosts
/* change hostname in hosts file */

Optional Services

Install xRDP

If you need to use RDP to access a desktop environment

sudo apt install xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp

Install GIT

sudo apt install git

Install Guest Agent for Proxmox

Applies only if this box is in a Proxmox server

1. Open Proxmox
2. Click Options
3. Turn on QEMU Agent

sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent
sudo shutdown 

Install Webmin

sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https
sudo wget -q http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib"
sudo apt install webmin
sudo ufw allow 10000/tcp
sudo ufw reload

bind9 DNS

sudo apt install -y bind9 bind9utils bind9-doc dnsutils
sudo systemctl start named
sudo systemctl enable named
sudo ufw allow 53
sudo ufw reload

Gitea (GitHub alternative)

sudo apt install git
sudo apt install mariadb-server

# Login to MySQL
sudo mysql -u root -p

# Add the git database
CREATE DATABASE gitea;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gitea.* TO 'gitea'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY "Root";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;

# Install gitea
sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/gitea https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.16.7/gitea-1.16.7-linux-amd64 
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitea
gitea --version

# Create gitea user
sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --gecos 'Git Version Control' --group --disabled-password --home /home/git git
sudo mkdir -pv /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,log}
sudo chown -Rv git:git /var/lib/gitea
sudo chown -Rv git:git /var/lib/gitea

sudo mkdir -v /etc/gitea
sudo chown -Rv root:git /etc/gitea
sudo chmod -Rv 770 /etc/gitea
sudo chmod -Rv 770 /etc/gitea

# Append code to the service file
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service

[Unit]
Description=Gitea
After=syslog.target
After=network.target
[Service]
RestartSec=3s
Type=simple
User=git
Group=git
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/gitea/

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gitea web --config /etc/gitea/app.ini
Restart=always
Environment=USER=git HOME=/home/git GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

# Start gitea
sudo systemctl start gitea
sudo systemctl status gitea
sudo systemctl enable gitea

# Access gitea
http://localhost:3000

# If you ever need to change settings like DOMAIN
sudo nano /etc/gitea/app.ini

Note: I put Gitea behind Nginx Proxy where it was listening to port 3000 and redirecting to 443 for SSL with a cert. The problem was that the URLs of the repos still had port 3000 so I would get command line errors when working with repos.

The fix was to edit the /etc/gitea/app.ini file and change the base URL to a normal port 80 URL. e.g., I deleted the :3000 from the base url.