Now that I have to support a cpanel server again, I have to dabble in apache confs. Sometimes you want apache to show an index of the files in a directory for simplicity, for this we use Apache Module mod_autoindex. Which gives a bare basics index mode and a fancier index mode with better layout,…
I just installed crashplan on a new linux headless server and it refused to backup, I checked logs and found it was having issues with the noexec flag on my /tmp/ folder. so I created a new tmp folder and told it where to access it. In this article I give simple instructions on how…
We recently moved a hosting to a new data center and wanted to test speeds, so I needed fixed size files to see what kind of speeds people could achieve while downloading them. I decided on the arbitrary numbers of 100MB and 500MB. Heres how I generated fixes size files via bash. for 500 MB…
PHP PDO MySQL Needed to make a simple php script with mysql in it, so I decided to use PDO because… well peer pressure 😐 so heres a basic PHP PDO MYsql script. The idea is I have a table called table with a field called field in a database called somedatabase. We have 1000…
Secure Copy (SCP) provides a secure and authenticated method for copying files between hosts. SCP relies on Secure Shell (SSH). Copy the file “somefile.txt” from a remote host to the local host scp [email protected]:somefile.txt /some/local/directory Copy the file “somefile.txt” from the local host to a remote host scp somefile.txt [email protected]:/some/remote/directory Copy the directory “somedir” from…
Need to extract a bzip2 or gzip file? well here’s how to do it : Bzip2 in the file.bz2 format : bunzip2 file.bz2 a tar file with bzip2 compression : tar xjvf file.tar.bz2 A tar file with no compression : tar xvf file.tar A tar file with Gzip compression : tar zxvf file.tar.gz tar…
