Running a server completely headless is fine as long as the server boots and remote access is available (via ssh, rdp, vnc or similar). I have a HP mediasmart EX490…
Category: Webserver
HP EX490 MediaSmart server: Using a 6TB GPT boot drive in Ubuntu with a non EFI BIOS!
HP EX490/EX495 MediaSmart servers were at one time very popular option for a home server. These 4-bay home servers came with Microsoft Windows Home Server V1 as the operating system.…
Migrating Ubuntu server from Amazon EC2 to DigitalOcean
Recently I migrated my blogs from AWS EC2 micro instance to a DigitalOcean 512MB VPS. Migration was surprisingly easy. All I had to do was sync everything from EC2 instance…
Securing Ubuntu Server with a free SSL certificate from StartSSL™
Pre-Requirements: Working LAMP installation with Ubuntu Server. Help is here and here. SSL security is enabled for Apache with Name Based Virtualhosts. Assumption Name of the website is www.example.com. Replace…
How to force SSL in WordPress admin interface
Method-1 If WordPress is installed to a SSL enabled web host, forcing SSL to the admin interface is quite simple. Just add following line in to the main wordpress configuration file ‘wp-config.php‘:…
