The Simplest way to install and configure our Ubuntu Server Edition. With this step-by-step manual instalation, we can configure Network, Internet, APT instalation source, XAMPP for Linux, Apache Web server, ProFtpd Ftp Server, PHP, MySql Database Server, Samba file sharing, Squid proxy server. A. Network And Internet Configuration 1. Intall Ubuntu Server Edition, I prefer using 8.04 LTS, a stable build with long time support, even better than the newer ones, in my opinion. Login as root or use this command to become root for user in sudoers list. # sudo su 2. Now, Change the hostname # pico /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost //Don't change this 192.168.1.12 hercules //Change with your ip address and hostname ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts 3. Make configuration for network interfaces # pico /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your s