[caption id="attachment_1480" align="alignnone" width="399"] Installing Wordpress on your Webserver[/caption] Installing Wordpress 1. Download the WordPress package from here. 2. Create a database and user. I use PHPadmin to administer my MYSQL databases. 3. Find and rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, then edit the file. You need to edit the italicized database settings below: /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'databasename'); /** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER', 'databaseusername'); /** MySQL database password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', 'databasepassword'); You need to go...Click for full post
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Installing Minecraft Server Manager on a Linux Server
[caption id="attachment_1476" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Installing Minecraft Server Manager on a Linux Server[/caption] Login via SSH with root access and issue the bolded commands. 1. Install Java. sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre 2. Install Minecraft Server Manager. sudo wget -q http://git.io/Sxpr9g -O /tmp/msm && bash /tmp/msm 3. Create your Minecraft Server in MSM. sudo msm server create <servername> 4. Update to latest Minecraft version on MSM. sudo msm jargroup create mc172 https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.7.2/minecraft_server.1.7.2.jar sudo msm jargroup getlatest mc172 sudo msm jar mc172 5....Click for full post
How to set up your domain Virtual Hosts on a Linux server
[caption id="attachment_1478" align="alignnone" width="297"] How to set up your domain Virtual Hosts on a Linux server[/caption] Linux Server Domain Virtual Hosts are used to run more than one domain off of a single IP address. 1. Create a Directory. sudo mkdir -p /var/www/yourdomain.tld/public_html 2. Grant Permissions. sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/yourdomain.tld/public_html sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www 3. Create a page. sudo nano /var/www/yourdomain.tld/public_html/index.html Type in nano "Your domain is set up!" then Save and Exit 4, Create the new Virtual Host...Click for full post
Installing FTP on a Linux server
[caption id="attachment_1461" align="alignnone" width="142"] Installing FTP on a Linux server[/caption] Enter the commands in Bold sudo apt-get install vsftpd If you would like to change options in vsftpd (optional). sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf Restart FTP service service vsftpd restart *Do NOT use the root user to login. To create a user to upload web files. adduser <username> adduser <username> sudo usermod --home /var/www <username>
Basic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installation on a Linux Server
I will assume you have a base system with Ubuntu 13.04 installed and updated. 1. Install Apache2. sudo apt-get install apache2 [To verify] Direct a browser to the ip address of your server and you should see the placeholder page. 2. Install PHP5. sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 Restart Apache after PHP5 installation is completed. sudo service apache2 restart [To verify] Create a file named info.php with the following code. <?php phpinfo(); ?> Place the file in the directory /var/www/html...Click for full post