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Don’t run PPTP and Squid on mission critical Linux boxes

Filed under: web 2.0 — Tags: , — taewoo @ 12:04 am February 3, 2010

Apparently PPTP does a lot of disk IO… and it can lock up your Linux server. *sigh* Learned the hard way.

To remove these services…

/etc/init.d/pptp stop

/etc/init.d/cron stop

update-rc.d -f pptp remove

update-rc.d -f cron remove

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How to setup LAMP stack on Ubuntu VPS

Filed under: web 2.0 — Tags: — taewoo @ 6:12 pm January 19, 2010

I’m no linux guru and I had to get a whole bunch of resources together to compile this list on how to set up LAMP (linux apache mysql and php).

You must run these as root:

  1. apt-get update
  2. apt-get upgrade
  3. apt-get dist-upgrade
  4. apt-get install ubuntu-standard
  5. apt-get install lamp-server^
  6. apt-get install php5-cli
  7. apt-get install php5-curl
  8. (rest and/or go take a dump)
  9. apt-get install curl
  10. apt-get install wget
  11. apt-get install imagemagick
  12. apt-get install emacs

Then

12. a2enmod rewrite

13. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

14. /etc/init.d/mysql restart

PS:If your VPS provider doesn’t give you access to their nameservers (cuz they’re doosh bags), you can always go with EveryDNS. Set it up there and point to EveryDNS dns servers on your registrar.

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