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Installation

See Installation instructions in your control panel at amahi.org
Self-install: Alternative, unsupported installation instructions
Amahi on a VM: Installing Amahi in a Virtual Machine
Express CD: Headless all-in-one Install

Getting Started

First you can take a look at the Popular Pages to see if your topic of interest is there. Otherwise find the major topics below in groups.

Storage and file sharing - How to store your music, pictures, movies and other files and share them with the rest of the devices in your network.

Accessing files from:

Networking - Using your HDA to manage your home network

Networking - Static IPs: How to assign static IPs to your network devices.
Punching DNS Holes: How to assign IP addresses outside of your network for your home domain.
Access HDA over SSL: How to make your HDA default to HTTPS for secure LAN logins.
Access Web Apps over SSL: How to make your web apps default to HTTPS for secure LAN access.
Password Protect Web Apps: How to password protect access to web apps.
Firewall: iptables: How to enable iptables firewall on your HDA.
Proxy server: squid: How to create a proxy server.
squidGuard: Content filtering using squidGuard.
Netboot: How to set up PXE Network boot.
Change IP Address: Change the IP address of your Amahi server
Change Network Gateway: Tell the Amahi server what the new network gateway address is.
Change DHCP Server Range: Change the address range the DHCP daemon uses on your Amahi server.

Remote Access - Accessing your HDA from anywhere on the network

Accessing your HDA remotely from:

VPN: outside your network.
VNC: inside your network (e.g. if your HDA is "headless").

FreeNX: Accessing your HDA with FreeNX
SSH based access to your HDA: Key-Based SSH Logins

Troubleshooting

Doing More

Apps Directory: These are the help pages for some of the apps in the Apps Gallery
Adding an HDA networked printer: Guide to set up print server on your HDA.
Backups: Guides on backup and restore: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Ubuntu Linux, and MacOSX.
Adding a second hard drive to your HDA: How to add a additional hard drives.
Greyhole: Add drive pooling to your HDA (ie Turn multiple drives into one!)
RAID guides for RAID 1 and RAID 5
Add Dropbox service: Allows a HDA Dropbox share folder to automatically synchronize with a DropBox account.
Automatic Database Backup: Automatically have your HDA database backed up daily.
Enable Outgoing Mail: Use your ISP to send mail from your HDA.
Monitor System Logs via E-mail: Sends logs to designated e-mail address daily.
Send Outgoing Emails via Gmail: Use your Gmail account to send mail from your HDA.
Disk Error Alerts: Monitor disk drive wellness and receive email alerts if errors are detected.
Greyhole Log via Web Browser: Monitor the Greyhole via your browser.

Using Applications

For a more detailed list refer to the Apps Directory

Remote File Management using AjaxPlorer
Calendars: How to use the calendar server in the HDA, including Outlook and iCal sync.
Dashboard: Using the amahi Dashboard

Getting "Under the Hood"

How to Create a new Theme
Linux/HDA Commands: Common used command for linux and HDA.
Making your own web apps: how to make your own web apps, with your code or other's code
Hosting your own web site: how to host your own web site on the web from your Amahi home server
Changing your DNS provider
Configuring OpenDNS
Use two HDAs on same network
Using Tonido

Contribute

Translate Amahi to your language
Create a Bug/Feature/Support ticket!
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Roadmap & Development

Fedora 14: Current Stable Release
Fedora 15: Not Supported
Fedora 16: Early Development
Ubuntu 12.04: Development Ongoing
CentOS 5: Development Halted
CentOS 6: Development Ongoing
Scientific Linux 6.1: Early Development

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