This morning I was doing some troubleshooting on a PHP program that couldn’t seem to access the locally running MySQL database server. Upon searching for some logging to figure out what was going on, I came across the fact the MySQL as installed from the Arch repositories, doesn’t enable much along theses lines. MySQL supports […]
Category: Server Administration
Ubuntu Apache LAMP Server Quick Howto – Part 2 – SSL Websites
Hi – Welcome back to the Ubuntu Apache LAMP Server Quick Howto. This second part of the series will cover configuring SSL for use with Apache for securing website content. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, and is a method of providing transport layer encryption or TLS (transport layer security). SSL typically uses X.509 digital […]
Ubuntu Apache LAMP Server Quick Howto – Part 1 – Apache Basics
Linux web application servers typically use the Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP stack. Linux being the OS, Apache the web server layer, Mysql provides the database, and PHP the dynamic HTML/Scripting language. Their is an amazing amount of LAMP based applications out there, so getting to know how to administer a LAMP server is a key skill set for […]
SSH Tunnelling (aka Poor Man’s VPN)
Tunnelling of TCP traffic can be performed from the ssh command on Linux or with Putty on Windows, and can be thought of as a poor man’s VPN. A VPN is a virtual private network, or a method of using a public network such as the internet to securely transmit data via an encrypted “tunnel”. […]
Disk and Partition Imaging using dd
Linux provides an abundance of advanced command line tools to manage and modify just about anything on your system. Today we will explore the use of dd, the primary tool on linux for creating and restoring disk images, among other things. The dd (diskdump) on Linux can be used to backup an entire disk or […]
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