On SolusVM, your host may provide you with OS templates such as “Ubuntu 10.04 LTS LAMP” and you click-install it to your VPS. Now how do you change its mysql’s root password? simple, run these two commands on SSH after doing
mysql
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('MyNewPass') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
I recently found out about T1LIB. But I had no clue how to install this. Lucky for me I am on Ubuntu and I have the ability to search for a package.
T1LIB is actually in the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. You can install it by punching in the following command
apt-get install t1lib-bin
If you are like me, you may be doing this to install essential build libraries to compile something from source
# wrong method yum install build-essential
Build essential is a Ubuntu / Debian package. On CentOS, you need to do this
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Warning: This will install all development tools approx 49 packages closing to 65MB
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.
On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Do this (there’s no need to do any compiling anymore)
apt-get install libssh2-1-dev libssh2-php
You can now test if PHP recognizes it’s new ssh2 extension by running:
php -m |grep ssh2
Don’t forget to restart Apache
service apache2 restart
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
As a comparison CentOS 5.4 has the following versions
So if you are a PHP developer looking to deploy a Linux flavour on your new box, choose Ubuntu
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).
Connect to server via SSH and then issue the following command
sudo passwd
output will be something similar to this
root@vps:~# sudo passwd Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully
phpMyAdmin is a very common and handy tool that most of the developers use. It is available on almost every server.
Installing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu server is even easier, you just need to
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
but what if we accidently skip the configuration screen where phpmyadmin makes modifications to apache?
Dont worry just do the following
Edit Apache’s configuration file (assuming you are using apache2)
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf # better to use the following command instead of the one above #gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Add the following line of code inside apache2.conf:
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
Now restart Apache:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Go to /phpmyadmin/ and login with your mysql username and password.
