Ubuntu Server: How to Attach and Mount a Hard Drive
The other day we needed to pull data off a restored VM running an older LTS version of Ubuntu Server. My IT contact helpfully attached...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Free up Disk Space
April 3, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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Every now and then your server will throw up its hands and declare that it has run out of space, which means that you need...
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How to Install Nagios on an Ubuntu Server
May 18, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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Nagios is a popular open source computer system monitor, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application. Nagios offers complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches,...
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How to Check if Your Ubuntu Server is a 32 bit or 64 bit Installation
April 13, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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Because you don’t want to waste time and bandwidth by accidentally downloading the wrong bit version of your operating system, it is pretty useful to...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Mount a USB flashdrive from a Terminal
April 15, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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By default, an Ubuntu server installation does not auto mount USB flashdrives that are plugged into it. Thankfully though, doing this yourself is not particularly...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Enable the mod_rewrite Module in Apache
April 13, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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The extremely useful mod_rewrite or rewrite module is not enabled by default on a new Apache web server install. Luckily, this turns out to be...
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Ubuntu Server: Pointing Apache’s default /var/www Folder to a Different Folder
April 11, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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If you build a Zend Framework website then you will know that it is customary practice to move most of the work out of the...
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How to Enable SSH Remote Access on a New Ubuntu Server 10.10 Install
April 8, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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Being able to administer your Ubuntu servers remotely is one of the most important aspects when running your own server environment, which makes the extremely...
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How to Change the MySQL Time Zone on an Ubuntu Server
February 18, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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If you wish to explicitly set the time zone for your MySQL running on an Ubuntu Server, here is how to do it.
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How to Change the Time Zone on an Ubuntu Server
February 17, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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It is often quite useful to be able to change the time zone on your Ubuntu server and to do so has become particularly simple....
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