Install Discourse on Ubuntu 22.04 Rumi, November 22, 2023 Prerequisites A server with Ubuntu 22.04 as OS Valid domain pointed to the servers IP address User privileges: root or non-root user with sudo privileges Step 1. Update the System Update the packages to their latest versions available after a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 sudo apt-get update -y &&… Continue Reading
Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Rumi, November 22, 2023 If you’ve just installed discourse, but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. Try the doctor cd /var/discourse ./discourse-doctor It will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did… Continue Reading
Install Nginx Proxy Manager on CentOS 7 Rumi, November 22, 2023 Nginx Proxy Manager is built on docker container. So, we need to deploy Docker first. Update Docker Package Database. In a terminal window, type: sudo yum check-update Allow the operation to complete. Remove if any docker is preinstalled with your OS- sudo yum remove docker docker-client docker-client-latest docker-common docker-latest docker-latest-logrotate… Continue Reading
SSH to use two-factor authentication using Google Authenticator on Debian or Ubuntu Server Rumi, November 19, 2023 A computer running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or above A phone running Android or iOS A configured SSH connection You should understand the danger of stolen passwords. You don’t need to know what two-factor authentication is and how it works. 🙂 Installing and configuring required packages Start a terminal session and… Continue Reading
Deploy a Laravel app on Oracle Cloud with database Rumi, November 17, 2023 Assumptions: Ubuntu 22 PHP 7.3 Laravel 5.5 Apache 2 PHP-Redis Download the public and private keys on your local machine. You have created your VM instance! Create an always free Autonomous Database [if your application uses a database] Select your desired database After creating your database, go to “DB Connection”… Continue Reading
Apache GuaCamole on Ubuntu 18 Rumi, November 10, 2023November 17, 2023 Install the following repository and packages- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freerdp2-dev freerdp2-x11 Download file directly from here: wget https://git.io/fxZq5 -O guac-install.sh Make it executable: Continue Reading
Mount Oracle Object Storage to Ubuntu Linux Rumi, November 8, 2023 Step 1. Install s3fs on an OCI compute instance running Ubuntu SSH remotely into your Ubuntu server and run sudo apt update to update your system repository. Then type the command sudo apt install s3fs awscli -y to install S3fs on your system. To verify proper installation, run which s3fs and you should be… Continue Reading
imapsync Host2: says it has CAPABILITY for AUTHENTICATE LOGIN Rumi, November 8, 2023 Imapsync issues with passwords on Unix. Q. On Unix, some passwords contain some weird *()$,”;&~ characters. Login fails. R1. Enclose the password within single-quotes in the imapsync command line: imapsync … –password1 ‘passw*()`”$,;&rd~’ R2. Change the password to keep only f…ing normal character. Make it long and random if strong… Continue Reading
Upgrading PHP 7.2 to 7.4 for WHMCS on CentOS 7 Rumi, October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 Lately I needed an update of PHP (7.2 to 7.4) on my WHMCS CentOS 7 built box- here’re the process that I followed. But before that, I’m sharing my original post on setting up WHMCS on CentOS 7 Since I used remi repository to install version 7.2, I’ll be doing… Continue Reading
Delete files older than 10 days using shell command Rumi, October 28, 2023 find is the common tool for this kind of task : find ./my_dir -mtime +10 -type f -delete EXPLANATIONS ./my_dir your directory (replace with your own) -mtime +10 older than 10 days -type f only files -delete no surprise. Remove it to test your find filter before executing the whole command Src: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13489398/delete-files-older-than-10-days-using-shell-script-in-unix Continue Reading