Category Archives: Linux
How to: Install WordPress in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the […]
How to: Install webmin in Ubuntu 12.04
To install webmin in Ubuntu 12.04, open terminal and add the following repository: 1- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list 2- Add the following lines deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib Save and exit the file 3- Now you need to import GPG key wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc 4- Update the […]
How to: Install LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. Open terminal and Type the command :install it first with sudo apt-get install tasksel Now to install LAMP, type the taskel command in terminal : sudo […]
How to Configure a Static IP in Ubuntu
edit /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.250 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway […]
Ubuntu server log monitoring via email without the need of a mail server (SendEmail)
Reblogged from My Linux Blog: Found a handy Tutorial on unbuntuforums on how to set up a server to email logs without the need of a mail server. It uses a couple of programmes called Sendemail and logwatch . I had to make a few changes to the guide to make it work on my […]
Ubuntu Supplemental Packages
1. Update Ubuntu (Repository cache) After installing Ubuntu 11.10, first of all, update the package information (you are always recommended to update your computer as frequently as possible but surely before installing any new programs so that you will get the latest one available in the repository). You can update your system either from command […]
VIM Cheat Sheet
Thanks to http://bullium.com/support/vim.html and http://www.ssel.montana.edu/HowTo/ How to Exit :q[uit] Quit Vim. This fails when changes have been made. :q[uit]! Quit without writing. :cq[uit] Quit always, without writing. :wq Write the current file and exit. :wq! Write the current file and exit always. :wq {file} Write to {file}. Exit if not editing the last :wq! {file} […]
