Surprisingly, I found that a Hostgator shared web hosting account supports secure shell (SSH) access and a shared secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate. For those who might not be familiar with them, SSH provides interactive terminal access to your account and SSL supports secure HTTPS browsing to your website. Note:…
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It was quiet, peaceful Tuesday night when I attempted to log into my Ubuntu Linux server as the root user. Permission denied, I got back. I tried it again. And again. Access denied. What the heck? I’m sure it was the correct password. I then tried all the passwords that…
3 CommentsWe decided to migrate from a virtual OpenSuSE Linux server running on my desktop to a dedicated server hosting company. Unfortunately, I missed the OpenSuSE selection as an operating system choice and ended up choosing Ubuntu 64bit. Below are the initial steps I took to setup our development environment on…
Leave a CommentRecently, I had to setup a LAMP environment on a temporary CentOS 5.6 Linux server. (CentOS is the open source equivalent to the Red Hat Linux operating system.) Pleasantly, using Yum (Yellow dog Update, Modified), which is the CentOS and Red Hat RPM package manager, makes the task super simple.…
1 CommentWhen you’re working in a small engineering team, one of the best tools for collaboration is a wiki. After looking at TikiWiki, MediaWiki, and TWiki, I decided to use TWiki. TWiki had the most sophisticated syntax for formatting a page. TWiki’s syntax trumped the downsides of using Perl and files,…
Leave a CommentSome developers needed Java JSP and Servlet support added to our LAMP development server on OpenSUSE 11.3. To do so, we decided to use Tomcat. Follow the instructions below to install Tomcat and the Apache JK Module to integrate Apache with Tomcat. Install Tomcat 6 As root user, run YaST…
Leave a CommentRecently, I had to setup a small development server for a team of 4-5 developers. The server needed to be accessible from the Internet and thus, needed to be secured. The server would use only free software. The server needed to provide the following development services: MySQL, Apache HTTP/HTTPS, PHP,…
Leave a CommentRecently, I automated the daily build and deployment of a web application to a Tomcat server. My automated build made calls to stop and restart the Tomcat service using a Tomcat service script. Unfortunately, I found that Tomcat sometimes will hang when quitting. As a result, after several days, I…
1 CommentThere is no official subversion binary distribution for SUSE Linux. However, it is pretty easy to compile subversion on your SUSE Linux server. If you have an older version of subversion which you wish to remove before installing the latest, do the following cleanup: Run Yast2, go to Software->Software Management,…
3 CommentsWhen using Yast2 to install or modify my SUSE Linux server, it will prompt me to insert the original installation CDs. This is bothersome if my SUSE Linux server is not easy to access physically. To avoid having to deal with CDs, we can copy the contents of the installation…
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