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How To Create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 18.04

Minecraft is a popular sandbox video game. As of late 2019, it was the second best-selling video game of all time. In this tutorial, you will create your own Minecraft server so that you and your friends can play together. Specifically, you will install the necessary software packages to run Minecraft, configure the server to run, and then deploy the game.

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How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial explains how to create a self-signed SSL certificate, how to add it to your server, and how to configure the SSL file to display the certificate to the world. A SSL certificate is a way to encrypt a site’s information and create a more secure connection. Certificate Authorities can issue SSL certificates that verify the server’s details while a self-signed certificate has no 3rd party corroboration. This tutorial is written for Apache on an Ubuntu server.

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How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu

When dealing with an extensive infrastructure and many team members, managing SSH keys for authentication can become unwieldy. However, SSH can utilize certificates in order to sign and validate user and host credentials to allow a seamless experience. In this guide, we’ll learn how to set this up using three Ubuntu 12.04 VPS instances.

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How To Create Systemd Unit Files for Buildbot — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create Systemd Unit Files for Buildbot

Buildbot is a Python-based continuous integration system for automating software build, test, and release processes. In this tutorial, we’ll create systemd unit files so that the server’s init system can manage the Buildbot processes.

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How To Deploy an Advanced PHP Application Using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy an Advanced PHP Application Using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will cover setting up SSH keys to support code deployment/publishing tools, configuring the system firewall, provisioning and configuring the database (including the password), and setting up task schedulers (crons) and queue daemons. The goal at the end of this tutorial is for you to have a fully working PHP application server with the aforementioned advanced configuration.

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