http://vpsbible.com/forums/ Setup Unmanaged VPS for Linux Noobs! en-US Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:26:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://vpsbible.com/forums/search.php http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/learn-javascript#post-2781 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:57:18 +0000 Marcus West 2781@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.codecademy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.codecademy.com</a></p> <p>Want to learn to program? </p> <p>This is pretty cool, and Ruby/Python/PHP are in the works</p> <p>Cop a look at this guvn'r...or some such argot </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/unable-to-import-database#post-2779 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:26:05 +0000 perryb 2779@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I can log into mysql using:</p> <p><code>mysql -u root -p</code></p> <p>But if I try to import a database:</p> <pre><code>mysql -u root -p localhost example &lt; example.sql</code></pre> <p>I get kicked out with the following error (notice the split after 'root'):</p> <pre><code>$ mysql -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user &#039;root&#039;@&#039;localhost&#039; (using password: NO) $ -p exmple &lt; example.sql</code></pre> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/connection-refused#post-2777 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:48:37 +0000 Jason Dunlop 2777@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi there,</p> <p>I am having a problem to get the stack script to work.</p> <p>I have got as far as Log In Post-Script, but i'm not able to log back in, it just says connection refused. Anyway to undo?</p> <p>Sorry i am a Newbie.</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>J </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/recursion#post-2776 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:24:20 +0000 Marcus West 2776@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>This is a pretty stupid question, but only because no-one actually seems to define recursive properly anywhere.</p> <p>when we chown -R (change ownership recursively) the ownership is referred down the chain, so .ssh and the authorized keys change ownership.</p> <p>But when you rm -r the action defers up the chain, and takes out the home file.</p> <p>Since recursion in Latin means going back, I assume the latter is a truer recursion. </p> <p>Does the direction of a recursion depend on the context? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/redirects-301-etc#post-2775 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:21:01 +0000 Marcus West 2775@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I really would like to get to the bottom of managing redirects in Nginx where there is no .htaccess file</p> <p>Enlightenment anyone? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/high-io-rate-on-linode-server#post-2769 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:32:51 +0000 david jeters 2769@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello Guvnr,</p> <p>I followed your setup for nginx, mysql, php5-fpm with wordpress on my linode 512 server. I get a high I/O rate on the server which I think means that server is hitting the hard disk pretty hard. It is noticeable on my wordpress site when I am creating or updating posts. I used to have WP cache installed on the webserver but that made it even slower. So I uninstalled it. What should I do to start troubleshooting the problem? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mapping-domains-in-wordpress-mu#post-2772 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:28:27 +0000 perryb 2772@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Just a heads up: there is an old thread on here that asked about this, I think there is a solution there somewhere but it couldn't make head or tail of it.</p> <p>After digging around I finally found a solution that works for me - and obviously the starting point is the WP MU set up recommended by Olly's tutorial.</p> <p>Here is my tutorial on the topic. I haven't had any problems yet and adding new domains is a breeze.</p> <p>If anyone can see or has any issues with it please let me know.</p> <p>&lt;href a="http://pointatthemoon.co.uk/2012/01/mapping-domains-in-wordpress-multi-user-with-nginx/"&gt;Mapping domains in WordPress Multi User with Nginx </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/upgrading-wordpress#post-2767 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:39:32 +0000 Marcus West 2767@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Can someone explain to me how to upgrade Wordpress?</p> <p>I tried using subversion, but got nowhere.</p> <p>I tried using the bashr command and got a shell fork.</p> <p>I tried isolating the two commands in the bashr file, to permit me to upgrade, and it kept causing an error....</p> <p>Would really help to have a bit more clarity on this...cheers </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/symlinks-failing-to-work#post-2765 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:01:58 +0000 perryb 2765@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I am really tearing my hair out here as I can't seem to find any precedent for this having Googled the problem:</p> <p>I modified my vhosts file, deleted the existing symlink then set it all up again the first time without any hitch at all:</p> <p><code>root@mail:/usr/local/nginx# ln -s sites-available/domain.com sites-enabled/domain.com</code></p> <p>Restart Nginx and off we go.</p> <p>Subsequently I have been going through the same process but the symlink always shows up highlighted red (indicating a broken symlink) if I list the contents of sites-enabled. </p> <p>I've checked and rechecked my syntax, zero spelling errors etc but the symlink refuses to work, the result being that my site is down.</p> <p>Any ideas anyone? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/best-drupal-performance-instalation-stack#post-2759 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:01:33 +0000 Juan Miguel Arbelaez 2759@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello GUV<br /> Thank you very much for your valuable help<br /> would be wonderful to have your help in the installation of a lamp-server or Lemp server for drupal with improved performance and that is very difficult for the novice so having help from someone as skilled as you would be wonderful. Since Drupal is so versatile but a bit slow, would be marvelous an easy instalation on-site like Linode with all the good practices of your driving installation<br /> I leave here some link that illustrate the problem</p> <p>Here some links related</p> <p><a href="http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-performance-boost" rel="nofollow">http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-performance-boost</a></p> <p><a href="http://cruncht.com/75/drupal-performance-scalability/" rel="nofollow">http://cruncht.com/75/drupal-performance-scalability/</a></p> <p><a href="http://library.linode.com/application-stacks/project-mercury/ubuntu-10.04-lucid" rel="nofollow">http://library.linode.com/application-stacks/project-mercury/ubuntu-10.04-lucid</a></p> <p><a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/50408" rel="nofollow">http://groups.drupal.org/node/50408</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=353" rel="nofollow">http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=353</a> </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/configuring-dns-for-vps-no-control-panel#post-2760 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:23:19 +0000 Ian Ratcliffe 2760@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>HI All,</p> <p>I'm currently following the guides on this site and I've come to the part where I have to "Add a Domain Zone".</p> <p>I have setup a new VPS with ChicagoVPS but in the Control Panel there is nowhere to add a new zone, etc. Do I need to used the control panel or can this be done via SSH? </p> <p>I have logged a support ticket but had no response.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/virtual-hosts-site-b-redirects-to-site-a#post-2761 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:45:02 +0000 Rolf Haug 2761@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>First guv, this guide is amazing! It's a little hard to navigate through the jungle. But is all good when you have arrived at your destination.</p> <p>So, my question:</p> <p>I've followed your guide, and when I added a new vhost (Site B), it just links to Site A. I have tried 10 times so its obvious something I'm missing.</p> <p>When I remove the site-available/Site A, Site B redirects to nginx default.</p> <p>This is very frustrating and I would very much appreciate if you (or someone else) could help me sort this problem.</p> <p>Site A is a Codeigniter site, site B is a plain simple index.html</p> <p>My VPS is from a norwegian company and is running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS.</p> <p>Could it be something in the nginx config? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/really-can-not-find-out-my-way-in-the-website#post-2755 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:59:57 +0000 Abdul Karim 2755@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello,<br /> Please I've two questions:<br /> 1) Please advise how to really start?<br /> 2) I've goggled a lot about which distribution to use with the VPS, and found many reviews go towards CentOS and Debian.<br /> But also found many are using Ubuntu and advise to use it and found more support for Ubuntu compared to other distributions.<br /> So is it really better for security and stability and performance for the long run to use CentOS or Debian or I can go with Ubuntu with no doubt?<br /> One last thing is that I do not have a previous background on Linux and just started a few days ago to look into it for the VPS hosting only.<br /> So for my situation … what is your advice? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/nginx-download-link#post-2757 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:27:04 +0000 Shaun Evans 2757@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi gang ... </p> <p>First off BIG thanks to the Guv for all of this. Great site and really fantastic material.</p> <p>I was trying out the LEMP stackscripts this morning for the first time and couldn't get Nginx to run after the install. Looked back at the results and realized that the download link in the script was throwing a 404. I changed line 292 to:</p> <p><code>wget <a href="http://nginx.org/download/nginx-$NGX_VER.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://nginx.org/download/nginx-$NGX_VER.tar.gz</a> &amp;&amp; tar -zxvf nginx-$NGX_VER.tar.gz</code></p> <p>and all is well. Thought I'd post that up for any other noobs running into the same problem</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Shaun </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-long-will-it-take-until-my-account-is-activated#post-2726 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:31:37 +0000 Sjors 2726@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi Guvnr,</p> <p>I hope you can activate my account this weekend, because I now have time to learn this stuff. Looking forward to the content! </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/app-always-running#post-2752 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:06:54 +0000 xere 2752@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi, I am new. First, my history: I have a Wndows VPS because I should keep running a trading windows application continuosly, auto-scanning the stock market and so on... But a Windows VPS is expensive, more than a Linux one. I have done some research with Virtual Box, creating an Ubuntu machine, installing some apps as a lightweight graphical environment, a VNC server, ssh server, wine and the trading app, with a minimal RAM consumption.<br /> My question is: I need to keep running the VPS (adding the needed apps at the autostart) 24 hours/day and 365 days/year. But if I start a Putty session with an admin user (that is, a ssh session), when I close Putty, the session ends and the VPS stop?<br /> Then, I thought that a solution maybe, that I arrange the VPS for autologin, and just share the desktop via VNC (tightvnc, by instance) when I would see what is happening. Is this idea right, or are there another ways to do it? Thanks. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/varnish-tutorial#post-1825 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:22:08 +0000 osb 1825@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>It would be cool if you can provide a varnish tutorial. I tried to install varnish via this tutorial: <a href="http://www.travisberry.com/2010/10/lightning-fast-php-server-with-nginx-eaccelerator-and-varnish/" rel="nofollow">http://www.travisberry.com/2010/10/lightning-fast-php-server-with-nginx-eaccelerator-and-varnish/</a></p> <p>but it does not work well with the way nginx is setup from your tutorials. Can you figure this out and create a nice tutorial for varnish. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wordpress-reinstall-error-establishing-connection-to-database#post-1395 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:12:34 +0000 Bob Builder 1395@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Have you decided to reinstall wordpress on one of your domains using a new database/user name? probably deleting the old one (in my case)? Only to get a database connection error during setup?</p> <p>Answer: restart php/xcache.</p> <p>I've figured out that in my case the problem (if you see it that way) is xcache doing its job, it remembers the old database connection on a per domain basis. So if your reinstalling wordpress on a domain with a different database/user name restart php/xcache just before you start. In my case:</p> <p>sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm reload</p> <p>Hope this might reach others before loss of hair. :o) </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/safe-secure-and-private-surfing-e-mail-voip-etc#post-2747 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:28:52 +0000 Carmine Iorio 2747@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>hi Guv,</p> <p>I'm asking you to consider providing direction, support and access to a network that is safe, secure and private while i'm using the internet.<br /> I know there is a huge global group of individuals who are feeling threatened with having no privacy while on the internet, e-mail, voip etc. for business, group and personal use, who have no one to turn to for trusted, competent and professional help, for folks like me who have the desire to learn, tech savy and understanding just living life consumes most of my time and it is unrealistic to believe i can and will do this on my own, its not going to happen.</p> <p>This is where The Guv comes in, as i don't know how, what or where i need to have safe, secure and private web access for my specific needs you could provide/direct someone like myself to/with resources specific to my needs and uses, software and network access:<br /> i would surf to The Guv's web page where i would select options i require, so for myself it is safe, secure and private surfing, e-mail, voip etc., i'm not building a web site or hosting a ftp nothing beyond safe, secure and private surfing, e-mail, voip etc., would then be directed to Olly's text, images and vids that explain web security for my specific needs, software for my specific needs install, setup and access to the network infrastructure?! that will provide for my specific needs for safe, secure and private surfing, e-mail, voip etc. If i'm mobile would i use web access from a hotspot, web access card or could i get safe, secure and private web access by going through the infrastructure you helped me setup? imagine the bell tolling for this kind of secure and private internet interface.</p> <p>Realizing this is not simple to conceive, organize, present and maintain, this can also be done in steps like targeting everyday people like me who do not want to run a web site, ftp etc. but simply conduct my internet interface in a safe, secure and private manner. if the interest is there the business model will be refined/adjusted for smooth operations and minimum personal time, then consideration for targeting another group could be done etc …,</p> <p>Thinking of you often as your business model for a specific need "VPN" included text, step by step vids and support, i've seen from you and your offering: interaction, competence, professionalism, gift of teaching, explaining and understanding, have not seen anything as through as your VPN site!.</p> <p>"ass, gas or grass nobody rides for free", i know this niche exists as i'm one of the needy (lol) and know many others who would also consider such a service, with an increase in business surely there would be incentives from software/ifrastructure etc. you would use/recommend/endorse, also thinking the whole key to any task is 99.9% preparation and organization to minimize personal time/support , don't want to spread Olly to thin, lol.</p> <p>hoping i have not stepped over the line with you simply seeing a serious need and trying to get help in resolution. I have nothing to sell or gain from you and simply an end user with specific needs that are not complicated but do require knowledge and guidance, heck i paid a sub for your website!</p> <p>thanks so much for your time and consideration<br /> carmine iorio<br /> fast1 </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/cant-view-the-premium-content#post-2738 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:50:41 +0000 Yoona 2738@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I subscribed, how am I suppose to view the premium content? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/need-account-activation#post-2732 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:48:33 +0000 n00bian 2732@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi.</p> <p>I subscribed a couple of days ago but am still unable to view premium content.</p> <p>Help! </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-enable-soap-support-on-php#post-2606 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:24:33 +0000 Pooya 2606@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>can someone please guide me how can I enable SOAP support on PHP ? </p> <p>I know this command should help : sudo aptitude install php-soap</p> <p>but should I recompile or reconfigure it? I'm still a noob :)<br /> ------------------<br /> Linode-Ubuntu 10.04 LTS-LEMP-PHP 5.3.6 </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/lockdown-prevents-wp-supercache-from-writing-new-cached-files#post-2288 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:51:44 +0000 larrymannen 2288@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Is there a way to elevate the security according to LEMP script but still allow nginx to write wp super cache files? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/nginx-allow-post-requests#post-2735 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:27:08 +0000 Jose R. Lopez 2735@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello Guv, I'm hoping you can help me with this one. I'm trying to get a Facebook App going where a page within my nginx powered vps gets requested. From what I've read Facebook makes its request along with a POST passing in some data to the server.</p> <p>Problem is that my nginx is returning:</p> <p>In order to accept POST request originating from this domain, the admin must add this domain to the whitelist.</p> <p>Interesting enough, the server is still retuning 200 Ok:</p> <p>Request URL:<a href="https://secure.razine.com/fb/" rel="nofollow">https://secure.razine.com/fb/</a><br /> Request Method:POST<br /> Status Code:200 OK</p> <p>So there's no error log.</p> <p>I've read about similar behaviour with nginx when sending post request to static files, so I tried changing my calls to: index.php?id=idofthedocument instead to make sure it was processing correctly, but it returns the same error messages, so it doesn't seem to be that.</p> <p>Any clues what could be wrong here?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/error-500-on-site-after-post-edits#post-2716 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:48:50 +0000 perryb 2716@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I have multiple WP sites on my Linode.</p> <p>All work fine and have been up and running for a while now without any trouble. I rarely modify the majority of them (mainly there for development).</p> <p>I've recently set up a new blog which I add content to much more frequently.</p> <p>Initially this worked without any hitches but something must have gone ping as occasionally php fails and I'm left with blank pages requiring a reboot. The other sites still work fine.</p> <p>I'm guessing that the problem has something to do with wp-supercache, php and maybe file permissions.</p> <p>Either way there is no obvious direct cause and effect other than if I leave my site alone it ticks along nicely. Once I edit something or add a draft post then at some random point afterwards the site goes down.</p> <p>I'll post some error messages later when I get home. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/google-apps-aliases-smtp-credentials#post-2733 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:43:43 +0000 jb 2733@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hey Guv, </p> <p>My VPS is running great! I have PostFix install (can send email from the server) and Google Apps set up and working (so I can also send/receive from Google Apps). That's all working great.</p> <p>Though I have one question now:</p> <p>I'm setting up aliases in Google Apps (e.g. <a href="mailto:support@domain.com">support@domain.com</a>, <a href="mailto:sales@domain.com">sales@domain.com</a>, etc), by going to my Inbox &gt; Settings &gt; Accounts &gt; Add another email you own.</p> <p>(By default, I can receive mail at any email aliases. But the goal here is to be able to <em>send</em> from those aliases as well.)</p> <p>It then gives you two choices about how you want to send your email. If you choose "Send through mydomain.com SMTP servers" then you are able to send using those aliases without the recipient seeing "sent on behalf of xxxxx", which would look unprofessional.</p> <p>To use this option, it requires:<br /> SMTP server: smtp.mydomain.com<br /> Port:<br /> Username:<br /> Password:<br /> Select: use TLS or SSL?</p> <p>My question is, where do I find these credentials? Or, how do I set up PostFix's SMTP to get these credentials?</p> <p>I've followed your PostFix steps exactly up to this point. I'm just not sure how to go about getting these SMTP credentials to enter here.</p> <p>(Note, normally at this point, if I were using a shared web host with included email, I would just create a new email account for each alias on my web host and use each username and password as the SMTP user and password for each alias. I've done that before for friends and it works great. They can send from aliases using a little drop down in google apps to select whichever alias they want to send from. But now on my VPS, I'm stuck at this point.) </p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/nginx-redirect-site-verification#post-2728 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:39:25 +0000 Marcus West 2728@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I completed a 301 redirect in NGINX...great.</p> <p>Now in Google Webmaster, I need to verify ownership of my domain.</p> <p>My domain host is shit (Hostgator) so I can't do a proper TXT verification...</p> <p>So I can:</p> <p>1) Upload an HTML file to your server<br /> 2) Add a meta tag to your site's home page</p> <p>(or 3 do it through Google Analytics)</p> <p>Since its a redirect....2 doesn't seem possible</p> <p>So, is there a way to do 1? To get Google to see the HTML file prior/during the nginx redirect process</p> <p>(I've tried sticking the html file on the server of the active site in the redirection, but google doesn't like that)</p> <p>-----------</p> <p>I hear Olly is now working as a quality controller for San Miguel, as well as spending his time English doing voiceovers for Spanish Radio shows. </p> <p>he denies all knowledge of having ever created any online techie communities </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-to-give-sftp-user-specific-access-to-a-directory#post-2448 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:35:53 +0000 R. Anthony Solis 2448@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I have some clients who are developers and like to get into the folders via SFTP. Well actually FTP but I won't let them. :)</p> <p>How can I limit the SFTP user to their website directory only? Don't want them messing with the other websites.</p> <p>Ant </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-the-latest-stable-curl#post-2724 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:53:51 +0000 mitty2005 2724@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi there all you finest people out there :-)<br /> I have a centos server with a few wordpress blogs on it. Lately I was getting curl error from one of the plugins. From countless hours of google researche i found out that it is caused by my server. Since I am linux noob I need help.<br /> I read that latest curl is 7.21.something while if I do YUM install curl i get 7.15. Can anyone please same me and help me how to install latest curl on my centos? I already did yum update so everything is up to latest . Well... Suppose to be!<br /> Please help! </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/omgwtfbbq#post-2722 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:14:24 +0000 at0micnz 2722@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>ok, through Chrome, after clearing ALL cookies, I can log in with my username so it displays at0micnz@vpsbible, browse through stuff, when it comes to the premium content though it is blocked and my login changes to guest@vpsbible...<br /> Through Internet Explorer I can login, browse and view the tutorial logged in as at0micnz@vpsbible, but the premium content is still blocked... any ideas? </p> <p>cheers </p>