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Installing SSL certificates on ServerPilot requires a paid plan. But thanks to the amount of customizability offered by ServerPilot’s config files we can configure SSL certificates on the free plan.
Create a directory for each domain’s SSL certificate files.
sudo mkdir /etc/ssl/example.com
Generate a private key in this directory.Continue Reading…
Longview is a system statistics graphing service by Linode. The statistics for CPU, memory, network, Disk I/O, MySQL, Apache and Nginx are collected by an agent program and are graphed in the Linode control panel. This service can also be used on servers that are not hosted on Linode. This article will show you how to setup Longview for monitoring a ServerPilot stack.Continue Reading…
This article will show you how to install the latest version of PHPMyAdmin on Nginx. We will be obtaining the latest stable version of PHPMyAdmin from the GitHub repository and periodically pull updates for it via Git.
Create a directory for PHPMyAdmin and change its ownership to the www-data user.
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Serverpilot is a hosted control panel for setting up and managing LAMP/LEMP stacks on Ubuntu servers. Just like any other control panel it can be installed with a single command. ServerPilot is simple to use and does not install unnecessary packages like other commercial control panels.
I had written an article for DigitalOcean on setting up mod_security on Apache. Since I found several DO users using ServerPilot to manage their Droplets I wanted to do a small piece on configuring mod_security on ServerPilot managed Ubuntu servers. ServerPilot supports custom .conf files for Apache making it easier load additional modules. This tutorial with be brief, for a detailed explanation please read the guide I wrote for DigitalOcean.Continue Reading…
The Cron utility of emails the output and errors of an executed job to the appropriate Linux user. This requires a properly setup mail server such as sendmail.
However you can use msmtp (an SMTP client) to receive emails from cron jobs to each users’ preferred email ID through your preferred email provider.
Make sure msmtp is installed and configured by following the instructions here.Continue Reading…
Last month the undersea cable SEA-ME-WE 4 cable was cut near Egypt causing a massive degradation of internet speed in India. For me several websites including the world’s 6th popular website Wikipedia didn’t load at all. And to make matters worse I wasn’t able to access my own blog :'( as it was located in Dallas (so traffic had to pass through damaged cable). So I quickly setup VPN server on an AWS micro instance running Linux (Ubuntu) and accessed everything I wanted, so here I am writing this article for the benefit of all netizens. To create a similar type of VPN server in windows read this tutorial. You’ll find a lot of articles on the internet with the similar topic but in this article I’ll keep the configuration part as short as possible setting up only the bare minimum to get a PPTP VPN server running in the time it takes to make noodles!Continue Reading…
