What this does

• Setup a very basic nginx/MySQL/PHP7.2-FPM environment with https.
• Setup a simple mail interface with sSMTP.
• Setup users with mail, sudo and/or sftp-only access.
• Setup a SWAP file if it doesn't exist.

Important

• Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 (server installation)
• These scripts assume you are running it on a new server as root.

To start

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/draco/vps-setup/archive/master.zip; unzip master.zip; cd master; ./setup.sh

Scripts available

setup.sh

This script will:

• Create a swap file the same size as the memory available (if none is detected but this does not work on OpenVZ virtualization).
• Create a sftponly user group.
• Set PermitRootLogin without-password in sshd_config.
• Install git/curl/python-software-properties/expect.
• Install memcached.
• Install ssmtp and apticron.
• Install nginx, mysql, php7.2-fpm.

add_user.sh

This script will create:

• a new user and add to the following groups:
  • mail if granted sSMTP access.
  • sftponly if restricted to sFTP chroot.
  • sudo if granted sudo access.
• a PHP7.2-FPM pool (each user runs PHP separately for security).
• a MySQL user and database:
  • MySQL username and database name are the same as the account username.
• a nginx server block for a domain or sub-domain.
  • each user will be mapped to only one domain OR sub-domain.

del_user.sh

This script will:

• Undo all changes made by add_user.sh.