Installing PHP 8.2 on Ubuntu 22.04 x64
8.2 is the latest major version of PHP, which was released on the 8th of December 2022. You can read up on new features and changes here. To install PHP…
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Creating a Vultr Laravel install snapshot
Creating and installing a blank Laravel app on an Ubuntu 22.04 Vultr instance to be snapshotted for rapid redeployment. This includes Apache, Composer and PHP 8.1 installations. Current promotion free…
Installing Apache and PHP 8.1 on Ubuntu 21.10
Installing Apache and PHP 8.1 on Ubuntu 21.10 x64. This post covers creating an HTTP web server using Apache with the new PHP 8.1 version. You will need sudo permissions…
How to install & upgrade Youtube-dl on Ubuntu 20.04
Downloading, installing and upgrading Youtube-dl on Ubuntu 20.04 Youtube-dl is a command-line program to download Youtube videos in a variety of formats. Youtube-dl is designed to handle archive type tasks…
Copying files and directories on Linux
The basics of copying files and whole directories on Linux. Copying files on a Linux OS can be done with cp this is obviously short for “copy”. The syntax for…
How to attach BuyVM Block storage slabs
A simple method and guide to attaching BuyVM storage disk slabs to your VPS. This post uses a 3TB disk slab and VPS running Ubuntu 20.04. Firstly make sure your…
How to disable SSH password login on Ubuntu
How to disable normal username/password login authentication to your Ubuntu server, only allowing SSH key authentication. This gives you the advantages of SSH’s whilst securing your server that little bit…
Full install & setup of Apache, PHP 8, MySQL and SSL on Ubuntu 20.04
Installing and setting up a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04 x64. This post covers installing Apache with the brand new PHP 8, a MySQL server and finally enabling SSL with…
Getting image EXIF data with Ubuntu
Getting image EXIF data on Ubuntu can be done with Exif, this is an Ubuntu package that can output and change JPEG EXIF data. Installing is done with: sudo apt-get…
Check if a process is running on Linux with PHP
Check if a process is running on a Linux system such as Ubuntu by using PHP. This is done by using pgrep and checking if its response is empty. pgrep…