Certbot is meant to be run on the server where your website is hosted. If you don’t have administrative shell access to your webserver or you’re not familiar with command line server administration, you should check if your hosting provider has built-in Let’s Encrypt support by contacting them or checking this list of supporting providers. Install On Ubuntu systems,
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MySQL is an open-source relational database that is free and widely used. It is a good choice if you know that you need a database but don’t know much about all the available options. This article describes a basic installation of a MySQL database server on Ubuntu Linux. You might need to install other packages
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When to set up a remote database connection This topic discusses how to set up a connection from your web server to a MySQL server on another host. This is an advanced topic that should be used only by an experienced network administrator or database administrator. You must have root access to the file system and you
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This is tested to work on a Ubuntu Server 14.04, 16.04 and 18.04 LTS versions on a physical machine and on a Proxmox container. The development server was built on a basic Ubuntu Server installation with only OpenSSH installed beyond the basic conf. (Proxmox container template) As usual, let’s begin with an update and upgrade. On the command
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By default it’s not possible to establish a direct SSH connection to a Proxmox LXC container. In order to SSH into a container there are two options available. Either you attach to the container through Proxmox host or you allow login with password on the specific container. Option #1: Attach to the container through Proxmox
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WordPress is a popular open source blogging platform and content management system (CMS). It’s easy to set up and has a thriving community of developers building websites and creating themes and plugins for others to use. Although getting hosting packages with a “one-click WordPress setup” is easy, it’s also simple to set up your own
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Some time it is necessary to find out files and remove them. However, rm command does not support search criteria. You need to use the find command to search for files in a directory and remove them on fly. You can combine find and rm command together. Linux or UNIX – Find and remove file
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The concept of owner and groups for files is fundamental to Linux. Every file is associated with an owner and a group. You can use chown and chgrp commands to change the owner or the group of a particular file or directory. In this article, we will discuss the ‘chown’ command as it covers most
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I have been researching for days after my wireless adapter was disabled mysteriously. I later found out that the wireless adapter was disabled due to an update which enabled my secure boot. After days of research, I figured out how to restore my Wi-Fi adapter. Please follow the steps below to re-enable your Wi-Fi
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I recently downloaded Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server on my Windows 10 test machine running VMware Workstation 14 Pro so I can do some testing. By far the big changes coming will be noticeable on the desktop and less so on the servers. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is doing away with Unity.. you probably already know that…
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