Today I’m doing an assignment for my school’s linux servers class held by Tero Karvinen. The assignment is to install Varnish cache and edit the settings of it, to measure site speed with ‘ab’ (ApacheBench) included in ‘apache2-utils’ package and to analyze and speed up a site with Firebug. I will do this assignment with More…
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Installing WordPress along with plugins, themes and images
In this post, I’m doing an assignment for the linux server course held by Tero Karvinen. I’m going to install wordpress to my virtual private server on Amazon EC2, which I created earlier. I will be using a MacBook Pro (late 2013) as a terminal and the Amazon EC2 virtual server as the server. The server More…
Setting up a free virtual server with Amazon EC2 and a .tk domain
In this post I’m doing an assignment for Tero Karvinen’s course on linux servers. The assignment is to create a name based virtual server with a domain pointing to it. I decided to use Amazon’s EC2, since it has a free tier and I have already used it once before. Setting up Once I already More…
Building and installing a ‘.deb’ package that adds an executable script to all users
This is a part two (link to part one) for my home assignment for Tero Karvinen’s course on linux servers. On this part I will build and install a package that will add an executable shell script and an alias for it for all users. Now to create a new package with a shell script More…
Building a metapackage and a local package repository
In this post I’m doing a home assignment for Tero Karvinen’s course of linux servers. The assignment is to build a metapackage that installs a bunch of software in a single package, to create a local package repository and to package a script so it installs a new command to all users. I’m going to do this More…
Solving Honeynet scan of the month 15
In this post I’m doing an assignment given by Tero Karvinen on his Linux server course about computer forensics by solving one of the honeynet scan of the month. I’m going to do this on my desktop computer. The computer is i5-3570k (4X, 3,8GHz, 6M) 16GB RAM, 2x Asus GeForce GTX 560 TI in SLI mode. Using More…
Analyzing and stressing Ubuntu 14.04 with munin and stress
Hello! In this post I’m doing an assignment for my Linux course in my school held by Tero Karvinen using Xubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. I will be using the same installation I used in the previous post on VirtualBox. To get started, I needed to install munin. It requires Apache to work, which I had already. Installing Munin sudo apt-get update More…
Installing LAMP with MariaDB and PhpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 14.04
Hi! In this post I’m recreating Tero Karvinen’s Linux test for his class he made in 2012. The assignment Me Karttakatu Oy:ssä teemme karttoihin liittyviä weppisovelluksia. Olemme muutaman hengen yritys. Asenna työasema, jolla tavallisimmat toimistotyöt onnistuvat (weppisurffailu, tekstinkäsittely). (Asentuessa voit käydä kommentoimassa kavereiden blogeja). Työntekijämme ovat Einari Vähäkäähkä, Pekka Winha, Åke Andersson ja Leila Laila. More…
Creating a bootable Linux live-USB on OSX
Hello! I’m attending a Linux server course this fall held by Tero Karvinen. With his recommendation to create my own web page based on WordPress I’m right here writing my first report to his class with the title Linux live USB. I’m using a Macbook Pro (late 2013) with the latest OSX Yosemite version 10.10.5. I More…