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Password Protect Directory with NGinx

& Ubuntu 16.04 sudo apt-get install apache2-utils htpasswd -c /home/username/.htpasswd username Login: username Password: your_cool_password those lines are added to “/etc/nginx/sites-available/cool_site_config config location /restricted_area {        auth_basic “Administrator Login”;        auth_basic_user_file /home/username/.htpasswd; }

Posted on October 3, 2017 at 16:59 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Linux, nginx, Ubuntu

New Ubuntu 16.04 install with Apache2 & Multiple PHP versions on the same machine

Don’t have much time time – so a very quick guide: sudo apt install openssh-server sudo apt-get install -y mc openssh-client git wget apache2 build-essential php php-json apt install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install php5.6-fpm a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif a2enconf php7.0-fpm # if you want to make 5.6 main version: > […]

Posted on January 2, 2017 at 22:51 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Linux

RapidSSL cert installation on nginx server

I recently installed RapidSSL cert and got “not trusted” message on Android (desktop browsers were both ok) Now… this is how to install RadidSSL cert properly. Step 1: got and check your installation here https://cryptoreport.rapidssl.com/checker/views/certCheck.jsp – if you’ve got nothing working yet – just download RapidSSL SHA256 CA cert from here: https://cryptoreport.rapidssl.com/chainTester/webservice/validatecerts/certificate?certKey=issuer.intermediate.cert.84&fileName=RapidSSL%20SHA256%20CA&fileExtension=txt Or choose the […]

Posted on April 29, 2016 at 11:53 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Install Android SDK on Linux – in my case Ubuntu 14.04 server

wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz tar -xvf android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz cd android-sdk-linux/tools ./android update sdk –no-ui create file: ~/.zshrc with follwing content: export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/sdk/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools:$HOME/sdk/android-sdk-linux/tools:$HOME/sdk/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/23.0.2/ sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 sudo apt-get install zlib1g:i386

Posted on March 8, 2016 at 14:41 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Linux

Linux install Java 8 from Oracle

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

Posted on March 8, 2016 at 13:22 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Linux

How to resize (make it bigger) partition on Ubuntu 14.04 in Command Line

Let’s assume you have new virtual Linux Server box running and you “suddenly” out of space. Shit. Well, you stopped your VM and increased the size of you hard drive from 20Gb to 40Gb, started VM again and… nothing changed. This is what I did: Sttep1: First i run cfdisk and removed swap (yes, you […]

Posted on March 8, 2016 at 13:09 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Fighting the system, Linux

rsync to Amazon AWS server using PEM file

One liner here: rsync -rave –filter=’merge public/.rsync-filter’ “ssh -i /keypath/key.pem” $PWD/public/* ubuntu@55.55.55.55:/var/www/www.server.com/

Posted on March 24, 2015 at 14:19 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Linux

How quickly copy one DB to another

Well, this is quite simple actually: mysqldump -u db_user -pYourPass -h 127.0.0.1 database_name_from | mysql -u db_user -pYourPass -h 127.0.0.1 database_name_to

Posted on September 10, 2013 at 18:03 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Linux, mySQL, Ubuntu

MS’SQL on Ubuntu Linux via PHP

Hi Folks, today we are going to install & use MS’SQL on Ubuntu Linux! Yay! Well, in fact installation is very simple with a tiny twists 😉 Installation (very simple): sudo apt-get install php5-mssql Now how to use it? PHP Code below: // Connect to MSSQL $link = mssql_connect($db[‘from’][‘server_ip’], $db[‘from’][‘username’], $db[‘from’][‘password’]); if (!$link) {     […]

Posted on September 10, 2013 at 15:21 by arte · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: English, Fighting the system, Linux, MS'SQL, Ubuntu

Sendmail alternative – postfix on ubuntu (when PHP doesn’t send emails) in a few easy steps

Imagine you have your new shiny Ubuntu server. You installed your php, apache & mysql and everything seems fine until… you realised your system doesn’t  send emails. If there is a problem – there must be a solution! In our case it’s either install good (… not so in fact) sendmail or postfix. We decided […]

Posted on March 28, 2013 at 12:20 by arte · Permalink · 2 Comments
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