Where to find linux server guide for a noob?

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Hi guys,
I'm trying to set up my first linux server which I will be using to run a small wordpress site and I was wondering if you guys know where to find a guide or tutorial for total noobs, I have most of it down but I'm just struggling with the permissions as I don't know which user group wordpress and phpbb will be using and I don't just want to set all permissions to 777, but I don't understand enough about allocating groups to know what to do yet. Trying on a 32bit Ubuntu 10.10 server with LAMP.

Any help will be appreciated,
Thanks
 
user is always www-data...

you may as well do a : chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
 
Just google "Setting up Linux Server for Wordpress *your distro name*"

There's a crap-ton of guides out there :)
 
Thanks :) eventually got that working :) is there something I need to install to get it to email the contact us form to me? The form page works but when I check my email nothing has been sent? Do I need to set up an email server or something to get it to send the forms to me?
 
Hi There
The Debian Admin book looks a good choice an in keeping with supporting an opensource environment.
Generally I would go googling for each problem that you encounter. The answer is generally on the first page of responses.

Regards

Tim
 
Remember to always include your distro name/version. www-data for example is specific to Ubuntu (I think?) /var/www/html would be for CentOS/RedHat etc
 
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