In this post we are going to create a virtual host for your website. But what is a virtual host? A virtual host or VHOST is a website configuration file. The adjective virtual refers to the fact that a Apache web server can host more […]
Adding SWAP – also known as Virtual Memory
For computers, the internal memory is the primary location to store and process data. For smaller virtual servers this random access memory (RAM) is usually 512 MB or 1 GB. Sometimes it might be necessary to free some of the internal memory. This is done […]
Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu Linux
In an ealier post, we have completed the LAMP stack in order to prepare an Ubuntu server for web hosting. The ‘M’ in LAMP refers usually to MySQL – but lately also to MariaDB. It is possible to run MySQL entirely from the command line. […]
Install LAMP on Ubuntu – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
In this post we are going to complete the LAMP stack on our server. Complete, since we have already a server running Linux. To complete the LAMP stack, we need to install Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The commands in this post are intended for Ubuntu […]
Visudo – Sharing Root Power with a Regular Linux User
In an earlier post we have seen how you can add a regular user to your server. A Linux user does have a lot of permissions. Basically, an ordinary Linux user is only allowed to work with the files in his own home directory. This […]
Change the SSH Port to increase the security of your VPS
As the administrator of your Virtual Private Server you will need to keep the software of the server up-to-date. This requires that you login to the server. You will do that over SSH – the Secure SHell. Every network protocol has its own default communication […]