Ubuntu 16.04

How To Configure Redis Replication on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Redis Replication on Ubuntu 16.04

Redis is an open-source key-value data store, using an in-memory storage model with optional disk writes for persistence. It features transactions, a pub/sub messaging pattern, and automatic failover among other functionality. Redis has clients written in most languages with…

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How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on Ubuntu 16.04

SFTP stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol. As its name suggests, it’s a secure way of transferring files to a server using an encrypted SSH connection. In a standard configuration, the SSH server grants file transfer access and terminal shell access to all users with an account on the system. In this tutorial, we’ll set up the SSH daemon to limit SFTP access to one directory with no SSH access allowed on per user basis.

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How To Install and Configure Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04

Ghost is a light-weight open-source blogging platform. In this tutorial, you’ll set up a production-ready Ghost instance on Ubuntu 16.04 using the official `ghost-cli` installation wizard. This will install Ghost, configure Nginx to proxy requests to Ghost, secure it with a [Let’s Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) certificate, and configure Ghost to run in the background as a system service.

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How to Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on Ubuntu 16.04

MQTT is a machine-to-machine messaging protocol, designed to provide lightweight publish/subscribe communication to “Internet of Things” devices. Mosquitto is a popular MQTT server (or broker, in MQTT parlance) that has great community support and is easy to install and configure. In this tutorial, we’ll install Mosquitto, retrieve SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and set up our broker to use SSL to secure our password-protected MQTT communications.

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How To Install Git on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Git on Ubuntu 16.04

Git is a powerful distributed version control system that can be used to track software development projects and other information. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate a few different ways to install git on an Ubuntu 16.04 server and how to get started.

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How To Install phpIPAM on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install phpIPAM on Ubuntu 16.04

phpIPAM is a dedicated tool for IP address management that provides automatic ping scans, status reports (so you can see which of your hosts are up and which are down), and email notifications. In this tutorial, you will install and configure phpIPAM on a Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack running on Ubuntu 16.04 and then create records related to a sample subnet.

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How To Reset Your MySQL or MariaDB Root Password — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Reset Your MySQL or MariaDB Root Password

Forgetting passwords happens to the best of us. If you forget or lose the root password to your MySQL or MariaDB database, you can still gain access and reset the password if you have access to the server and a sudo-enabled user account. This tutorial will cover how to…

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