This is a second part in our “Alternate Web Server” series, detailing how to use LightTPD as an alternative to Apache. This post will tell you how to install PHP. This is a bit more involved that the Apache version of this post, although you should still be able to complete it with relative ease.
The […]

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It’s very useful to be able to view/edit files on your server out of a command-line environment, and the chances are that you have a Windows machine somewhere which you may use on a more daily bases, the difference in operating systems doesn’t have to act as a barrier between everything though, the 2 (or […]

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This will conclude our “Setup a Web Server” series, with a tutorial showing you how to install the MySQL database server. It is very commonly used with PHP to create web apps, as usual installation is simple with the apt-get command, and we will also show you how to install a web-based management script, that […]

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Apache is a great web server, as it is incredibly popular, hence has a large amount of support for it, making it ideal for running dynamic websites that use add-ons such as PHP, as it’s all there for you, pre-configured & ready to install. But, that isn’t for everyone, many people may just want to […]

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In this series of posts, PHP will be the second item that we will be installing. It is certainly not a necessity, as many websites are able to run on Apache alone, if they have no “server-side” code, such as static HTML pages, or file servers. But it is installed on many LAMP servers. Example […]

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In this tutorial you will learn how to setup the minimum amount of software required for a Web Server, following tutorials will include information on how to expand this to make it more useful to you.
For more information on the apache web server please follow these links:

http://apache.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server

Like most other applications, apache can be installed using […]

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Yes, you are reading correctly, it is possible to install a web browser onto a text-based operating system, albeit a limited one. You won’t get all the fancy features of Firefox; but it is a very quick, small, and efficient browser called Lynx. Like many other things, installation is simple, just one command required:
sudo apt-get […]

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OpenSSH is a free application that allows you to remotely connect into your server, and it will act as if you are logged in locally. It is very similar to telnet, although much greater in the fact that it encrypts data sent over the connection.
The SSH server application, which you will be installing, can easily […]

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Possibly one of the most useful features of Ubuntu Server is the apt-get command, it allows you to install software without having to compile or mess around with too many configuration files.Apt-Get installs software from a database maintained by Ubuntu, and then automatically configures most software.
It knows where to look from a list of “sources” […]

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In tech news recently there has been a lot of coverage of the latest version of Ubuntu, 7.04, although mainly of the desktop version. But at the same time the server version was released, but don’t worry, I’m not going to be out of date for too long, I will have install guides for 7.04 […]

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