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The OS Quest Trail Log #39: Long Lingering Mistake Edition

April 23, 2009

Today wasn’t a good day for site uptime stats. After about 2 months of continuous server uptime there were a couple planned and one unplanned outages. I decided to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10. Yea, I know 9.04 was just released but I don’t want to be that bleeding edge on my server [...]

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Ubuntu 7.04 End-of-Life

October 22, 2008

If you missed it (like me) Ubuntu 7.04 has reached end-of-life so if you’re still on it you should go to 7.10. No more security notices or updates.

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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Desktop on Parallels

May 3, 2008

After upgrading my Ubuntu 7.01 Server to Ubuntu 8.04 Server without incident I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop install that I have set up in a Parallels virtual machine. I’d originally installed Ubuntu 7.04 then upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10. So now it would be an upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04.
The upgrade went as [...]

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Ubuntu 7.10 Server to Ubuntu 8.04 Server (Hardy Heron) Under Parallels

April 25, 2008

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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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Released

April 24, 2008

Canonical has released Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in both desktop and server editions. LTS means “Long term Support” and the desktop version will be supported through 2011 and the server through 2013.
Canonical has instruction for upgrading from earlier versions via the GUI .

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Ubuntu Server Project #9: SFTP, Fake DNS, and Apache SSL

April 16, 2008

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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Ubuntu Server Project #8: Apache Configuration

March 19, 2008

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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Ubuntu Server Project #7: Apache & PHP Installation

March 17, 2008

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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Ubuntu Server Project #6: MySQL Server Installation

March 13, 2008

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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Ubuntu Server Project #5: Getting Comfortable With Ubuntu

January 25, 2008

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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Ubuntu Server Project #4: Iptables Firewall

January 23, 2008

Continuing along the security theme set by the previous article I’ll configure some simple iptables firewall rules for my Ubuntu Server virtual machine. Iptables can be pretty complicated and I won’t attempt to go into great detail. Since this is a virtual machine only accessible from within my home network I have the luxury [...]

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