Add a User To Group www-data ( Apache Group ) Rumi, October 10, 2019 The procedure is as follows: Open the terminal application. Login to Ubuntu server using ssh. Add a new user named foo to www-data group by running useradd -g www-data foo command. Add an existing user bar to Apache’s www-data group on Ubuntu using usermod -a -G www-data bar command. Verify new modification on Linux… Continue Reading
Install Laravel 5 Framework on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 Rumi, October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Below is the system requirements for the installation of latest Laravel application on your system. PHP >= 7.2 OpenSSL PHP Extension PDO PHP Extension Mbstring PHP Extension Tokenizer PHP Extension XML PHP Extension Ctype PHP Extension JSON PHP Extension BCMath PHP Extension Step 1 – Install LAMP To start with… Continue Reading
Resizing a VirtualBox Virtual Hard Disk Rumi, October 6, 2019 Prerequisites Before you start this procedure you’ll need to do the following. Make sure you have the VBoxManage command-line tool installed on your host system. Download the ISO for a GParted Live CD or else a Linux Live CD using a Linux distribution that includes the GParted partition editor utility. IMPORTANT: If the virtual disk… Continue Reading
How to Setup a Multi-Protocol VPN Server Using SoftEther Rumi, September 14, 2019 SoftEther VPN is one of the world’s most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software, made by the good folks at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris and is freeware and open-source. You can use SoftEther for any personal or commercial use free… Continue Reading
Using NGinx to serve static files and Apache for dynamic Rumi, September 6, 2019 Apache is a great web-server, but it has a pretty heavy memory footprint. It can get quite restrictive quite quickly, especially if you’re on a system will limited resources (given how many people now run on a VPS, and the poor disk IO of these systems it’s all the more… Continue Reading
Configuring Postfix to block outgoing mail to all but one domain Rumi, September 6, 2019 This is so simple to do, but I have to look it up every time I need it (not something that comes up regularly!); When configuring a development server, you may find you have a need to ensure that emails will not be sent to any domain except those you… Continue Reading
Monitor and Manage your services with Monit on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 Rumi, September 6, 2019 Install Monit For Debian/Ubuntu Monit is easiest to install through apt-get: sudo apt-get install monit For RHEL: Configure EPEL repo to download the latest Monit package. [root@server ~]# rpm -Uvh http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [root@server ~]# yum -y install monit Once monit downloads, you can add programs and processes to the configuration file:… Continue Reading
Debian Wheezy repository Rumi, September 2, 2019 Debian wheezy is no longer supported. It is two major releases older than stable. It has not received any updates since 31 May 2018. The resolution is to dist-upgrade to oldstable, or to stable. You can still use the archive repository but there is no more updates: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian wheezy… Continue Reading
NGINX as a Reverse Proxy Rumi, August 30, 2019 Configure NGINXPermalink At this point, you could configure Node.js to serve the example app on your Linode’s public IP address, which would expose the app to the internet. Instead, this section configures NGINX to forward all requests from the public IP address to the server already listening on localhost. Basic Configuration… Continue Reading
Proxmox change from local-lvm to local storage Rumi, August 30, 2019 First remove the existing LVM-Thin: lvremove pve/data Then create an normal lvm on existing group. For example: lvcreate -L 755.96G -n data pve Format it: mkfs.ext4 /dev/pve/data Mount it in the fstab. The mount target must be empty, so delete everything in there. /dev/pve/data /var/lib/vz ext4 defaults 0 2 rm… Continue Reading