How to change “-bash-*”?
If you are seeing this in your bash (SSH), It makes it tough to navigate through SSH since it doesn't give you much information. To fix that, you can simply type this in your SSH when logged in:
Linode is Blazzing Fast
I asked my client to buy a Linode for some testing purposes and I tried it for the first time. I must say, Linode is blazzing fast. Downloads are touching 8M/sec and speed, performance is as if its running on a VM on my local system. Update: Now its been almost a month running Linode and I strongly recommend this VPS company.
Good bye CentOS! Hello Ubuntu
Its been about almost more then two years since I have been playing with CentOS on many different platforms etc. Its very stable but on the other hand, PHP/MySQL updates are very hard to get and still PHP is 5.1.6. I tried EPEL repo and it updated PHP to 5.3.1 but still there were conflicts with stuff and many core packages. So, I thought why not move to Ubuntu since it has just announced 10.04LTS (Long Term Support) in April 2010. Folks at iWeb were really nice to do a reinstall without any charges and also process a memory upgrade request at an amazing 50% discount. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Apache 2 version is 2.2.14 PHP version is 5.3.2 MySQL version is 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 SVN (Subversion) version is 1.6.6 As a comparison…
Bought a new VPS from QuickWeb
I just secured a nice deal on QuickWeb.co.nz's Texas data center. Thanks to lowendbox for the info on this special coupon. Plan to use it to test new stuff before putting it on my two other production servers (with iWeb.com).
How to change password in linux console?
Connect to server via SSH and then issue the following command output will be something similar to this
Installing PHP 5.2.6 on CentOS box
If you want to install PHP 5.2.x instead of the PHP 5.1.6 offered with default CentOSPlus repo. Please consider installing the utterramblings repo. Setting up this repo is a breeze ... just follow these steps (more…)
How to Install Webmin on CentOS
Install dependencies before we proceed to install webmin Download latest rpm package from Webmin's official website Once it is downloaded, install the RPM using the following command No more steps required. Its installed :) Go to your browser and access the control panel with valid ssh credentials. Default URL is https://your-ip:10000/ (IF you have not changed the default port)
Creating and Installing crontabs using CodeIgniter
Last night, I was trying to get a crontab working in CodeIgniter, since my current project (a personal project) is using CodeIgniter now. I didn't wanted to use the conventional approach of running crontabs and my code seperate. Unfortunately, CodeIgniter does not have support for Crontabs and I didn't wanted to user wget in linux crontab to initiate unwanted requests. I spent some time and came up with a solution. It uses CodeIgniter backend Does not modify any core architecture of CodeIgniter Keeps configuration at one place So enough of the summary and let me show you how its done. Create a file (e.g. cron.php) in the same place as your index.php and system folder. Here is its code Now, we need a controller e.g. test so the controller code…
Installing MySQL 5.1 on Ubuntu
I wanted to use PARTITIONING introduced in MySQL 5.1 to handle some 2 Million records (and growing everyday) in a table. Ubuntu 8.10 does not have MySQL 5.1 available if you do apt-get the latest version available is 5.0 So this is what I did, its easy and this might help somebody. I prefer nano editor but you can use any editor of your choice. Add these new lines at the end of the end of the file. (These packages were targeted for 7.10 so I will recommend using them and removing them from this list once you got the latest MySQL version) Now run the following commands Note that you may need to do sudo prefix to these commands if you are using a non-root account. Now lets do…
Intall Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 8.10
WARNING: Please use this method to install Apache, PHP and MySQL because its more suitable for most of your needs and has options to auto-upgrade your installation. The following method is obsolete and not recommended. After trying to install Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 8.10 via several methods listed over the web. I opted for xampp package for linux. It is as easy as ABC Download the xampp linux package from their official website (I have selected NCHC, Taiwan as the mirror to download this package, you may try another) Extract the files Chmod the files to have nobody ownership Configure xampp security Start xampp with this command Stop xampp Restart xampp Login to ftp using the username nobody and the password that you have set up in the…