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I am having trouble understanding why there's a detailed article for installing Composer (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-composer-on-ubuntu-18-04) on an Ubuntu server. Cannot C...
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DigitalOcean Articles
Ubuntu 18.04
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I came across the recent exposure of a major remote code execution vulnerability in PHP:
https://www.cisecurity.org/advisory/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-php-could-allow-for-arbitrary-code-execution_2018-023/
I am runn...
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When looking to patch a vulnerability using official packages it should be noted that distributions like Ubuntu backport fixes to previous versions rather than pushing updates on their LTS releases. For this reason t...
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PHP
Ubuntu
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Published Question
This old article on securing phpmyadmin with SSL (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssl-certificates-with-phpmyadmin-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps) still does the trick on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and ab...
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Apache
Security
Ubuntu 16.04
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Published Question
I streamed a mysqldump over SSH from one remote server (say, Server A) to another (say, Server B) and the import went through fine and the db on Server B was correctly updated. This is on Ubuntu 14.04 and the MySQL ve...
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MySQL
Ubuntu
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Published Question
I have been trying to get an admin interface working for beanstalk on my Ubuntu 16.04 server. The one I chose was https://github.com/ptrofimov/beanstalk_console which is the most frequently recommended web interface f...
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Messaging
Ubuntu 16.04
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Published Question
I have looked at the mod_deflate tutorial (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-mod_deflate-on-ubuntu-14-04) and tried to reduce the compression level as instructed midway thro...
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Hi @cloudnine
From the error Invalid command '\xe2\x80\x8bDeflateMemLevel' it looks like the file contains UTF-8 characters, which I don't think is supported. Try creating a clean ASCII encoded file.
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Apache
Ubuntu
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I have a few web sites running on the same IP in my droplet and just noticed that if I access droplet's IP in the browser, it loads the default Apache page for Ubuntu 14.04.
Is there a way to turn prevent this default...
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Apache
Ubuntu
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Published Question
I have a few web sites running on the same IP in my droplet and just noticed that if I access droplet's IP in the browser, it loads the default Apache page for Ubuntu 14.04.
Is there a way to turn prevent this default...
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Apache
Ubuntu
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@hansen, yes. At the moment, I see the following in the home directory of each user’s account:
root@host:/home/<username># ...
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It's not clear to me if my linux permission settings are secure or if I am making a mistake. I would be glad if someone chimed in on my setup running Php5-fpm on Ubuntu 14.04:
Document root for each virtual host: /ho...
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Linux Basics
Ubuntu
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Published Question
We put our Magento site on Sucuri and it is much slower than running it off our own server. Looking further, we notice that Apache is sending two Vary: Accept-Encoding headers and, as per Sucuri support, these duplica...
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Apache
Ubuntu
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Published Question
I have Sendmail installed for relaying web site emails to Google Apps and have been having random problems very often. If I wish to replace it with Postfix, how do I ensure that Sendmail stops permanently and doesn't ...
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Messaging
Ubuntu
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Published Question
On a droplet, I have created two Linux user accounts and setup Laravel 5 for each of them at the following paths:
User account 1 >> Maps to dev.example.com.conf virtualhost>> Maps to dev.example.com, with Laravel inst...
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Applications
PHP Frameworks
Ubuntu
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Published Question
For the domains/sites running on my Ubuntu 14.04 server, I had added the Linux user accounts to the www-data group. The document root (public_html) of the individual Linux user accounts that correspond to each web sit...
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Linux Basics
Ubuntu
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Published Question
Following along the tutorial for securing Apache on Ubuntu 14.04 (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-14-04), I first created the certificate for the base...
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Apache
Ubuntu
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Published Question
It seems there's a nasty MySQL zero day flaw that needs to be fixed on all servers running MySQL 5.7.13 and below, including MariaDB and PerconaDB:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/481
Does anyone know how to apply...
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MySQL
Ubuntu
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Published Question
I am confused whether creating a php5-fpm.conf file at /etc/apache2/conf-available/php5-fpm.conf is really required to run php-fpm with Apache on Ubuntu 14.04
This answer on D.O (https://www.digitalocean.com/community...
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The file name makes no difference. In the Linode guides you are first copying an example file and then modifying it. Apache does not care which file contains these settings but the block with <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c...
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PHP
Ubuntu
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Published Question
Hi,
I had lots of issues with mod_security blocking my sites on Ubuntu 14.04, so I uninstalled it by running:
apt-get remove libapache2-mod-security2
But, this still left the /etc/modsecurity/ folder intact, so I manu...
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Security
Ubuntu
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Published Question
I have been successfully running a Ubuntu 14.04 production server on D.O for nearly six months now. I couldn't be happier with the level of support received from D.O staff and the excellent tutorials that helped me ge...
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Networking
Ubuntu
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It’s most likely a permissions issue.
Check out this article, especially the Ubuntu instructions and see if your folders from /…
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