PowerDNS and Poweradmin can be combined to create a simple, lightweight and easy to manage authoritative DNS server. These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu LTS releases 14.04 and 16.04. This guide assumes you have
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Setup OpenVPN Client on Ubuntu
I was recently setting up some AWS EC2 instances for lab redundancy and decided to create a VPN tunnel straight to my homelab for a bit of extra security. Thankfully, clients are much more simple
Read moreMagento Fatal Error: Call to a member function setQuote() on a non-object in Abstract.php
After a nice few days off work for the annual Northern Irish, festivities, let’s call them; I returned to a ticket raising an issue whereby Magento was reporting an error when returning to our store
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I’ve been going through my lab and changing generic passwords to much stronger, randomly generated passwords for each service. One service posed a problem: VUM. I updated the ODBC Data Source but vCenter still reported
Read moreSetup MySQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04
Here’s a quick guide to setting up the popular database server MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04. Install MySQL Update repositories sudo apt-get update Install MySQL sudo apt-get install mysql-server Enter a root password when prompted
Read moreSetup Nginx with php 7 on Ubuntu 16.04
Here’s a quick guide to setting up the http server Nginx with the latest version of php. Install Nginx Update repositories sudo apt-get update Install Nginx sudo apt-get install nginx Check Nginx is running
Read moreSetup phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 with Nginx and a Remote MySQL Server
I’ve been rebuilding my lab recently, most notably breaking down my LXD stack into individual Ubuntu virtual machines for each service. One thing I always meant to do but never got around to figuring out
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