Upgrade WordPress without FTP Rumi, March 26, 2017December 23, 2019 Open /wp-config.php Now the first thing you need to do is to open the wp-config.php file from your WordPress root folder (you may access this file from your WordPress installer folder). From the installation folder, the file is located at wordpress/wp-config.php Insert FS_METHOD Paste the following code to your wp-config.php… Continue Reading
Hiding Apache and PHP Server Signature Rumi, March 20, 2017March 26, 2017 Revealing web server signature with server/PHP version info can be a security risk as you are essentially telling attackers known vulnerabilities of your system. Thus it is recommended you disable all web server signatures as part of server hardening process. Disable Apache Web Server Signature Disabling Apache web server signature… Continue Reading
Mount a Remote Directory With SSHFS Rumi, March 2, 2017March 7, 2017 sshfs is a filesystem based on the SSH file transfer protocol. It is used on a client system i.e. you need to install sshfs package on your local computer/laptop powered by CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian/Arch Linux. No need to install anything on server (server1.cyberciti.biz). You only need an openssh server installed on server… Continue Reading
How to correctly install wkhtmltopdf on debian 64 bit? Rumi, February 27, 2017 Ubuntu and Debian packages are compatible most times but not in all cases, i think this is the trouble you’re having you’re trying to use the Ubuntu’s .deb for Debian instead you should get the Debian specific file, (it works for both jessie and wheezy) wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-wheezy-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i… Continue Reading
LHMP- Linux Haiwatha Mysql PHP simplistic new breed!! Rumi, February 18, 2017February 18, 2017 Step 1 – Setup repository for pre-compiled Hiawatha Debian binaries The first thing you’ll need to do is to setup the repository for Hiawatha Webserver. You may also compile it on your own if you wish, but for this tutorial we’ll be using the pre-compiled binaries. First, get and install… Continue Reading
Postfix using Gmail as a Mail Relay with Debian 7 Rumi, February 10, 2017 Prerequisites Before starting this tutorial, you should have: Debian 7 installed Your fully qualified domain name (FQDN) All updates installed : apt-get update A valid username and password for the SMTP mail provider, such as Mandrill, or SendGrid Make sure the libsasl2-modules package is installed and up to date: apt-get… Continue Reading
Compacting VirtualBox’s VDI file size? Rumi, February 8, 2017 Run defrag in the guest (Windows only) Nullify free space: With a Linux Guest run this: sudo dd if=/dev/zero | pv | sudo dd of=/bigemptyfile bs=4096k sudo rm -rf /bigemptyfile Continue Reading
Remove apache, phpmyadmin etc from ubuntu 16.04 Rumi, February 4, 2017 You can remove the packages in Ubuntu by executing the commands: dpkg –purge phpmyadmin dpkg –purge mysql-server dpkg –purge apache2.2-common Or You have option also to remove the following packages: sudo apt-get remove apache2* sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin sudo apt-get remove mysql-server sudo apt-get remove php5 Or sudo apt-get –purge… Continue Reading
Create a Sudo User on Debian or Ubuntu Rumi, January 29, 2017 Log in to your server as the root user. ssh root@server_ip_address Use the adduser command to add a new user to your system. Be sure to replace username with the user that you want to create. adduser username Set and confirm the new user’s password at the prompt. A strong… Continue Reading