Postgres Configuration on RedHat

This will install Postgresql on a RedHat 6.4 or CentOS 6.4 system and will allow password-protected remote login access. 

# Open the firewall to allow remote postgres connections
sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5432 -j ACCEPT

sudo /sbin/service iptables save
sudo /sbin/service iptables restart

# Install packages through yum
sudo yum install vim-enhanced
sudo yum install postgresql-server

# Initialize a new database directory
sudo service postgresql initdb 

# Start the database server
sudo service postgresql start 

# Add postgres to the default runlevel 
sudo chkconfig postgresql on
sudo chkconfig postgresql --list
sudo chmod 755 /home/idcuser/

# Edit the postgres.conf to allow connections from all ips

sudo vim /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgres.conf
listen_addresses="*"

# Edit the pg_hba.conf file to allow password auth for any ip

sudo vim /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5

# Restart postgres
sudo /etc/init.d/postgres restart

# Configure a postgresql superuser and new schema. 
sudo -u postgres psql
psql> create role idcuser superuser createdb createrole inherit login;
psql> alter user idcuser with password 'password';
psql> create database sample;
psql> \c sample
psql> create schema sample;
psql> alter user idcuser set search_path to sample,public;

Basic Python Development Server setup with Ubuntu 10.04

Quick setup guide

# config vi command line
echo "set -o vi" >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

# install packages
aptitude install vim openssh-server apache2 python-virtualenv python-mysqldb mysql-server libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-wsgi eclipse subversion nmap ubuntu-restricted-extras g++ git-gui virtualbox-ose php5-cli mdadm fabric python-dev mercurial

# eclipse development plugins
install pydev for eclipse
install subclipse for eclipse

# firefox development plugins
install firebug for firefox @ http://getfirebug.com/
install web developer for firefox @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/

# add google repo
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
aptitude update

cd /opt/
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.1.2/tarball/
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.2.1/tarball/
tar -xvf Django-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar -xvf Django-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
ln -s /opt/Django-1.2.1/django/ django

# mysql workbench download (64 bit version)
aptitude install libzip1 python-pysqlite2 # deps needed
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-workbench-oss-5.2.22-1ubu1004-amd64.deb/from/http://mirror.services.wisc.edu/mysql/
dpkg -i mysql-workbench-oss-5.2.22-1ubu1004-amd64.deb

# setup postgresql
aptitude install postgresql pgadmin3 python-psycopg2

sudo su -
passwd postgres
su postgres
psql template1

The last instruction should open the psql shell, where you can run the following:

ALTER USER postgres WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'mypassword';

# Setup NX server (Google NeatX server)
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neatx-server

## NOTE: if neatx gives a weird error, delete the session dirs on the server:
## /var/lib/neatx/sessions/some_dir/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX
http://programmingzen.com/2007/12/26/installing-django-with-postgresql-on-ubuntu/