How to Contribute

Become a mirror

You can assist the LFS project by providing an HTTP or FTP mirror. The HTTP mirrors provide the LFS website, books, patches and hints. The FTP mirrors can provide a number of services including LFS packages and BLFS packages. The requirements for the various mirrors are listed below. If you would like to become a mirror, please set it up and send an email with the data requested below to the website maintainer, webmaster@linuxfromscratch.org. Thank you.

Requirements

Here is a list of requirements for the various mirrors. All mirrors require that you use rsync to sync your mirrors with our main servers, and a cron program to schedule it for you.

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HTTP Mirror

• At least 5 GB of disk space.
• Apache Webserver or equivalent with the following options enabled:
  • Indexes
  • FollowSymlinks
  • IncludesNOEXEC (requires mod_include.so)
• If you want to use Nginx instead of Apache, the following options should be used:
  • ssi on; (requires ngx_http_ssi_module)
  • disable_symlinks off;
  • autoindex on;

To set up the mirror, use the following rsync instruction in a cron script:

/usr/bin/rsync -lprt --delete www.linuxfromscratch.org::lfs-website /srv/www/lfs

LFS and BLFS FTP Mirrors

• At least 800 GB of disk space.
• The path to the mirror being "/pub/lfs/" and "/pub/blfs/" if possible.

To set up the ftp mirrors, use the rsync instructions in a cron script:

/usr/bin/rsync -lprt --delete rsync.osuosl.org::lfs /srv/ftp/LFS
/usr/bin/rsync -lprt --delete rsync2.osuosl.org::blfs /srv/ftp/BLFS

Still interested?

If you are still interested in becoming a mirror, please email the following information to the appropriate list or the webmaster.

• Location (City and Country)
• Hostname and IP Address
• Bandwidth
• Contact Name and Valid E-mail Address

Make a donation

One of the ways to help the Linux From Scratch project is by making donations.
Financial donations can be made through PayPal using a major credit card.

USD $

If you'd like to donate but can't use PayPal, please contact Gerard Beekmans.

All proceeds of donations will be used to pay the monthly server hosting bills.