Even though I’m still in the middle of building my Ubuntu test server I decided to go ahead and upgrade it to Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Sure, I’m still learning all this stuff and this will make it harder to troubleshoot problems. Upgrade issue? My configuration error? Oh well, it’s all for fun [...]
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Things are moving along with the Ubuntu Server Project but there’s a bunch of small tasks and configuration changes that will make life easier going forward. This article will cover installing vsftpd, setting up a self-signed SSL certificate in Apache, and configuring my local Mac to access the Ubuntu server virtual machine by name. [...]
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The previous article in my Ubuntu Server Project series covered the installation of Apache. Now it’s time for some configuration. I’ll start off by looking around the Apache installation ten make some minor configuration changes.
The Apache config folder is /etc/apache2 which contains the following files & folders:
The names in blue are folders.
The sites-available [...]
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Now that MySQL is installed the only remaining server software is Apache, PHP and WordPress. This time around I’ll install Apache & PHP. The installation is quick & easy. I’ll use aptitude to install both of them. As a refresher, if you haven’t read the previous articles, I’m building a WordPress test environment on [...]
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It’s been over a month without any activity, but the SQL server build is moving forward again. In the previous five installments I was installing, configuring and getting comfortable with the the basic Ubuntu install. The past articles can be found in the Ubuntu Server Project section on my Linux page.
Today’s task is to [...]
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This is a bit different than the other posts as I won’t actually be installing any major software. Instead I’ll be customizing Ubuntu to make it easier for me to use and finding programs to monitor my server.
System Information
First I’ll want some commands that tell me about the system. Since there’s only 256MB of [...]
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