This document is a how-to for installing a Fedora scripts.mit.edu server. * Check out the scripts.mit.edu svn repository. * cd to server/fedora in the svn repository. * Run "make install-deps" to install various prereqs. * Use the Makefile to build the scripts.mit.edu-specific Fedora packages. * Run "make suexec" and "make suexec-install" to overwrite /usr/sbin/suexec with one that works. The one installed by the newly-built Apache RPM is misconfigured. * Install the full list of RPMs that users expect to be on the scripts.mit.edu servers. See server/doc/rpm and server/doc/rpm_snapshot. (Note that this is only a snapshot, and not all packages may in fact be in use.) * Install the full list of perl modules that users expect to be on the scripts.mit.edu servers. See server/doc/perl and server/doc/perl_snapshot. * Install rails (versions 1.1.6 and 1.2.2). * Install the credentials (machine keytab, daemon.scripts keytab, SSL certs). * Attempt to check out server/fedora/config/etc into /etc. This involves individually renaming directories out of the way, copying over any configuration files from SVN (and the .svn directory), and moving the original directory back. - Configure Apache. - Try not to misconfigure PAM or SSH in the process. - If you are setting up a test server, pay attention to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and do not bind scripts' IP address. You will also need to modify /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost_ldap.conf to use scripts.mit.edu instead of localhost. * (Optional) Beat your head against a wall. * I recommend setting noatime for the root filesystem in /etc/fstab. * Possibly perform other steps that I've neglected to put in this document.