PALI: The Perfect Automatic Lamp Installer

Historical presentation

PALI (Perfect Automatic Lamp Installer) is a shell script that will automatically turn your Debian 8 or Debian 9 server into a pre-optimised LAMP stack (Linux Apache Mysql Php) for you. Just install a “bare” Debian 8 or 9 with SSH access and, in a few minutes, you can get an apache + php + mysql + memcached stack (with PHP sessions stored in memcached instead of on disk), git, nodejs, webmin, grunt, and other interesting little things such as a pre-optimised Mysql or MariaDB server or a Let’s Encrypt certificate right from installation, with one single command line.

It is a really very simple, standalone script with no direct dependencies, which can easily be modified to add the software you need. I will update it as often as possible. For now, it can already do quite a lot, including the following operations:

• Install vim, iotop, mc, apache2, rsync, screen, duplicity…
• Install php5-fpm (curl, apcu, gd, intl, imagick, imap, mcrypt, memcache, pspell, recode, sqlite, tidy, xmlrpc, xsl, soap, calendar)
• Install Mysql-server / MariaDB-server, Mysql-client / MariaDB-client and phpmyadmin
• Install munin, postfix, git, pure-ftpd, Imagemagick and curl
• Install Composer, NodeJs, Grunt, Drupal Console, wp-cli, Drush and webmin
• Enable userdir, rewrite, expires, deflate, headers and ssl
• Configure pure-ftpd (FTP & FTPS) to use standard Unix users and chroot them into their own directories
• Create an initial php-fpm virtual host with a phpinfo and a phptest
• Pre-optimise the MySQL server configuration
• Pre-optimise the Apache and php-fpm configuration
• Change the default SSH port (22 by default)
• Change the default Webmin port (10000 by default)
• Install your choice of NodeJS version 6, 7 or 8 (7 by default)
• Change the server’s name on the fly
• Automatically install and configure a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate
• Automatically install and configure Fail2ban, rkhunter & chkrootkit
• Install and configure an iptables firewall with rules adapted to the port changes
• Configure an “admin” contact email address
• Generate the root, MySQL and user passwords and email them to you

 
IMPORTANT: if you choose the Let’s Encrypt option (-l 1), make sure the name you use already points correctly in your DNS to your server’s IP address, otherwise it will not work properly (I will add an automatic check soon).
 
Enough talk! You just want to install your server? Simply download and run the script. Remember to change the email address, otherwise it will not run, or specify it in the command-line options:

• -a email@address -> the email address used to receive the access details
• -n my.hostname.com -> specify a new name for your server
• -s port_number -> specify a new SSH port (22 by default)
• -w port_number -> specify a new Webmin port (10000 by default)
• -j nodeJS_version -> specify the NodeJS version you want: version 6, 7 or 8 (7 by default)
• -l 1 -> Set to 1 if you want your virtual host to be installed automatically with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate
• -h -> simply to get the list of available options

wget --no-check-certificate https://www.christophe-casalegno.com/tools/palidx(8 ou 9).sh
chmod +x palidx(8 ou 9).sh
./palidx(8 ou 9).sh -a admin@mydom.tld -n myserver.dom.tld -s 65022 -w 65000 -j 7 -l 1

./palidx(8 ou 9).sh

You can also download the scripts directly from these addresses:
Debian 8: palid8.sh
Debian 9: paliv9.sh

Have fun!

—
Christophe Casalegno
https://twitter.com/Brain0verride