Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger December 5, 2024
This is a comprehensive guide to setting up a high-performance hosting environment for Laravel applications on Ubuntu. The guide covers the installation of required software, including Nginx, PHP 8.4, Node.js, and Certbot for SSL, as well a...
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Learn how to manage your MySQL server from the command line. This beginner-friendly guide covers starting and stopping MySQL, creating users, managing databases, and performing backups and restores using real-world commands.
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If you are using SSH, you'll want to run down this checklist of to make that ssh server a bit more secure. If any of these settings is absent from the configuration file, you should add them. For Ubuntu this is in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_co...
Read More »Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger January 12, 2016
I manage a bunch of internal servers and for those that aren't part of the wider web I like to use key pairs to speed up my sign ins and maintenance. Key-Based SSH Logins Key-based authentication is the most secure mode of authentication us...
Read More »Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger March 15, 2013
Below is a list of very common linux commands that any linux person should know by heart. From gzipping files, to running backups this is my personal cheat sheet Compressing Files and Folders Unzip 7z Archive 7za x myfiles.7z gzip File...
Read More »Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger December 17, 2012
Frequently I am asked by clients for details on how to manage a lampp server. While I do not recommend that clients who are not familiar with systems mess with the core system there are a few simple tasks that anyone can do to back or resta...
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From time to time I need to install a way to accurately determine where users are located based on their header information. Thankfully there is a wonderful free database from MaxMind that gives you this ability when you install it with Apa...
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Development Tools Netbeans - http://www.netbeans.org Dreamweaver for UI http://www.adobe.com Flux is good too and much cheaper (OSX Only) http://www.theescapers.com/flux/ TextWrangler for just simple text stuff (OSX Only) http://www.bar...
Read More »Leave a Comment Guide Alan Bollinger October 17, 2010
Here is a great little script to get all of your system specs in a easy to read format
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