Setting up apt mirror on Debian 8

Every guide below will assume you have a fresh install of Debian x64 8.7.1 netinst.

Before starting If you want to mirror just the “main contrib non-free” you will need minimum 120GB of storage space.

apt-get install apt-mirror apache2 screen

Setup and Start Apt-Mirror

nano /etc/apt/mirror.list

############# config ##################
#
# set base_path    /var/spool/apt-mirror
#
# set mirror_path  $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path    $base_path/skel
# set var_path     $base_path/var
# set cleanscript $var_path/clean.sh
# set defaultarch  <running host architecture>
# set postmirror_script $var_path/postmirror.sh
# set run_postmirror 0
set nthreads     20
set _tilde 0
#
############# end config ##############

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
clean http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

At this point we will begin the mirror process this will download 100+ GB of data to your system. This will start in a screen window to see the progress run screen -r

screen -dmS downloadingmirror apt-mirror /etc/apt/mirror.list

Once the process is completed continue to the next part.

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Setup Apache2

Now we have to edit Apache 2 to show the files properly.

We will disable the default apache2 website.

a2dissite 000-default.conf

service apache2 reload

Now we will add the new website pre configured for the mirror.

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/apt-mirror.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
         DocumentRoot /var/www
 </VirtualHost>

Start the new website.

a2ensite apt-mirror.conf

Reload apache2

service apache2 reload

Remove junk that we don’t need

cd /var/www
rm -r html

Setup Apache2 To Expose Mirror Files

ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/ftp.us.debian.org/debian /var/www/debian

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Setup a Client to use our new Mirror

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://192.168.1.5/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://192.168.1.5/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

#security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

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