RCC NET 220 Networking Technologies

  • Week 01 - May 05 to May 11 2008
    • Covered Material:
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Lab: Performed Installation of CentosOS 5.0
      • Research Paper: group paper - identify the purpose and list advantages and disadvantages of 5 different Linux distributions. Use distrowatch.com to find the list and the information about varous Linux distributions.
  • Week 02 - May 12 to May 18 2008
    • Covered Material:
      • UNIX Basic Utilities
      • UNIX File System
      • Lab: Reinstalled CentOS 5.0 due to Rambo (RCC network boot manager) limitation.
      • Lab: Work on Lab 01. The Lab 01 is due on May 22nd/2008.
      • Lab: Work on Lab 02. The Lab 02 is due on May 22nd/2008.
      • Lab: Work on Lab 03. The Lab 03 is due on May 22nd/2008.
  • Week 03 - May 19 to May 25 2008
  • Week 04 - May 26 to June 01 2008
  • Week 05 - June 02 to June 08 2008
  • Week 06 - June 09 to June 15 2008
    • Covered Material:
      • Finished covering the Week 05 material.
      • Lab: Work on Lab 06. The Lab 06 is due on June 20th/2008.
  • Week 07 - June 16 to June 22 2008
    • Note: there will be a number of bonus lab assignments (around 4 to 5). The bonus lab assignments will count for 10% of the overall course grade.
      • Lab: Work on Lab 06. The Lab 06 is due on June 20th/2008.
      • Lab: Work on Bonus Lab 01. The Bonus Lab 01 is due on June 26th/2008.
  • Week 08 - June 23 to June 29 2008
  • Week 09 - June 30 to July 06 2008
    • Covered Material:
      • Apache, Apache TomCat, MySQL, Java, PHP
      • Intro to HTTP
      • JDK Tomcat MySQL Installation and Configuration
      • Solution for the vsftpd: 500 OOPS error:
        run: /usr/sbin/setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1
      • Possible solution for TomCat 5 blank screen problem:
        Go to your terminal, at root type nano .bash_profile and make the following entries:

        JAVA_HOME="path to ur java instalation" e.g. "/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06"
        CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib
        PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
        export JAVA_HOME CLASSPATH PATH

        now exit to the console and type echo $JAVA_HOME it should return the path you set.
        Also find java.sh in /etc/profile.d and make the same entries in it.
        Now try to start Tomcat.
      • Lab: Work on Lab 09. The Lab 09 is due on July 10th/2008.
      • Lab: Work on Bonus Lab 02. The Bonus Lab 02 is due on July 11th/2008.
  • Week 10 - July 07 to June 13 2008
      • Lab: Complete and submit the previously assigned labs, including the bonus lab.
      • Prepare for the quiz. The quiz is scheduled for Friday, July 11th, 2PM
      • Course Project. This work is due on July 11th.