Monday, March 25, 2019

Learn how to setup the TL-WN725N USB wireless adapter in Linux from the command line. These instructions use wpa_supplicant and Arch Linux.

Tagged as Linux Wireless TL-WN725N Command Line

Thursday, December 7, 2017

This post details how to extend a Linux LVM volume without requiring a reboot. This works from the command line in both CentOS7 and Ubuntu

Tagged as Linux LVM Storage Command Line

Friday, March 17, 2017

Here we're going to look at setting up WordPress on your own server, or a cloud VPS, running Ubuntu 16.04LTS. There are *free* options for hosting your own site that are better than paying for a cheap host. Read more to find out how...

Tagged as WordPress Linux Hosting Install HowTo Ubuntu LEMP

Monday, January 30, 2017

The Linux TOP command provides valuable monitoring and troubleshooting information. However, there is a lot of information in a very condensed format and it can be tricky to sort through what is important and what isn't. Click to learn more about TOP.

Tagged as Linux TOP Linux TOP Linux Monitoring Linux Troubleshooting

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Want to verify which version of Ubuntu you're running from the command line? There are a few ways, but the best way is the lsb_release command. Click the link to see how.

Tagged as Linux Ubuntu QuickPost

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

By now we've all heard about the fancy new lightning fast HTTP/2 protocol, right? Fortunately, the latest versions of NGINX support HTTP/2. Unfortunately, most distributions are still stuck on OpenSSL < 1.0.2

Tagged as NGINX HTTP/2 OpenSSL Use the Source CentOS7 Chrome

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

There is no packaged version of certbot for Amazon Linux so we have to download and set it up manually. Running it the first time will install all dependencies and should then work to create and renew certificates. Unfortunately, the first run on Amazon Linux gives us and error instead of a working certbot. :(

Tagged as AWS EC2 SSL Let's Encrypt certbot