This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of setting up a Virtual Private Server (VPS) from scratch, covering initial access, user management, security measures, and software installation. Local Creation of an SSH Key Pair On your local machine, open a terminal and create a new SSH key pair: Read more…
Example of using Docker compose to run nginx reverse proxy with SSL to expose different WordPress web apps on multiple domains. This content can be easily generalized to serve multiple websites with other kinds of web applications. Prerequisites Before starting, you need to check you satisfy the following prerequisites: You Read more…
Here is a set of Linux commands used when operating as remote server admin: i.e. find and modify multiple files, sync local and remote files, generate keys, etc. SSH and keygen The first operation for working on a remote server is connecting via ssh. Typically, you connect to the server Read more…
In my local development environment, I have a running database that I want to backup. Find container First, list containers with docker ps, identify the database you want to backup and note down the CONTAINER ID. In my case, the container id is 3f7b373c036d. Backup Create a file named backup.properties Read more…
This article shows how to perform a secure Linux server setup by creating a VPS, adding a sudo user, enabling public key access, activating the firewall, and disabling root access. Linux server Here we consider a few different VPS (Virtual Private Server) providers. Then, we choose a provider and see Read more…
This article describes how to search for files in bash, and shows a few examples of using find, grep, and ag (the silver searcher). Search for files in bash People using bash on a daily basis know at least two basic tools for searching: find and grep. The main difference Read more…
To back up a WordPress website, you need to backup two components: database: posts, pages, categories, comments, users, plugin data, etc. filesystem: media, plugins, files, etc. Here we see how to backup and restore a WordPress instance via command line both in pure-bash fashion and also wordpress is running on Read more…
In my development environment, I am running WordPress on docker containers, and I want a system to backup (and restore) both the DB and the WordPress data. For this article, I assume you are familiar with docker and Linux bash concepts. If you just want to backup a DB running Read more…
I often travel for work, and a few times happened I wasn’t able to access my VPS via SSH on a working internet connection. So I wrote this article to help me remember how to ssh everywhere. SSH Behind Firewall In my case, I was not able to use ssh Read more…