Installing Apache2, PHP5, MySQL and PHPMyadmin On Debian Rumi, December 8, 2013 First we install MySQL 5 like this: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client You will be asked to provide a password for the MySQL root user – this password is valid for the user root@localhost as well as root@server1.example.com, so we don't have to specify a MySQL root password manually later on:… Continue Reading
Install VNCServer on Centos 5 Rumi, December 5, 2013 Install VNC Server to operate CentOS with GUI remotely from Windows client. VNC is already installed if you already build Desktop Environment. If it's not installed, Install by a command 'yum -y install vnc-server'. [root@ns ~]# yum -y install vnc-server [root@ns ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers # line 20: make valid and… Continue Reading
.htaccess URL redirect Rumi, November 13, 2013 # This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain Redirect 301 / http://mt-example.com/ # This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain Redirect 302 / http://mt-example.com/ # This allows you to redirect index.html to a specific subfolder Redirect /index.html http://example.com/newdirectory/ # Redirect… Continue Reading
OpenFiler Installation On Headless NAS Rumi, November 12, 2013 So, you have a Dell 715N nas or similar and wish to install OpenFiler onto it? This nas is headless, it has no USB ports, no CDROM, no floppy. It’s only connection to the outside world is it’s serial port and it’s network interfaces (2). You may or may not… Continue Reading
Nginx wordpress fancy URL or permalink fixing Rumi, November 12, 2013 If your wordpress is installed in the root directory i.e. yourdomain.com, you can use the following directives- location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } # Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests. rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent; location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ { expires max; log_not_found off; } Or if your wordpress is… Continue Reading
Reset the root password in Debian or Ubuntu Rumi, November 9, 2013 In order to boot into the recovery mode on Debian or Ubuntu, hold down SHIFT key after powering on your Linux machine. You will then be presented with GRUB menu. Select “recovery menu” option by pressing down arrow key. Do not press ENTER at this point, but rather press “e”… Continue Reading
NTP Adjust date on Linux Rumi, October 27, 2013December 8, 2013 If you want to set date/time on linux manually (instead of using synchronization like ntp) you may use the date command to do it. Login as root and run the following command, it will show you the current date/time. [root@servername ~]# date Output will be like Tue Aug 23 12:32:22… Continue Reading
Install nginx using yum on CentOS or SL Linux Rumi, October 25, 2013 Step #1: Install nginx repo Type the following wget command to install nginx yum configuration file: # cd /tmp CentOS Linux v6.x user type the following command: # wget http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm RHEL v6.x user type the following command: # wget http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-rhel-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh nginx-release-rhel-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm Continue Reading
Install Munin-node on RHEL or CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6 Rumi, October 25, 2013 rpm -Uvh http://ftp.uninett.no/linux/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm yum install perl-XML-SAX yum install munin-node And voila! Continue Reading
Install htop on CentOS 5 or 6 Rumi, October 25, 2013 Install RPM for CentOS 5.x 32-BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i686.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.i386.rpm 64BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm Install RPM for CentOS 6.x 32-BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.i386.rpm 64BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm Install htop in CentOS Using YUM Once the repository is installed, all you need to do… Continue Reading