Posts under category 'linux'
Adding a swap file to small Digital Ocean droplets on Ubuntu
If you have a smaller droplet on DigitalOcean, chances are you will need to create a swap file at some point. This small tutorial is here to help remind me how to do this, and hopefully help others at the same time.
Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!
How to install Subversion on cPanel 11.50.x and higher
This tutorial will walk you through the steps to installing Subversion 1.8.14 on cPanel. You will end up with a command line version and the ability to access your SVN repositories via the browser securely.
Is oh-my-zsh slow?
Setting up Duplicity and Duply on a CentOS 6/7 cPanel box for S3 backups
I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install Duply and Duplicity to enable S3 backups on my CentOS cPanel box. This is a bit rushed, so instructions are brief. If you notice anything wrong, please let me know in the comments and I fix it up.
Installing Node, Bower and Gulp on a cPanel box
Updated for 2018 to use nvm. I’ve been using Node, npm, bower and gulp in my local Vagrant VM under Ubuntu. However, as one of my current projects will be shuffled off to a cPanel CentOS server soon, I thought I would check how easy it is to install all this on the cPanel side. This mini-how-to assumes you are running the latest cPanel (WHM 11.42.0 (build 23) as of this writing) running on CentOS 6. Assuming you have this configuration, then you will already have git installed and running as required by npm in some instances.
Discrepancy between df and du-solved
Solution to a discrepancy between free space as shown by du and df.
Installing Node.js and Python 2.7 on cPanel with a unique IP address
This is a small tutorial or how-to on how to install node.js on a cpanel box. Note to all that setting up an EC2 instance on Amazon and getting Node.js up and running was WAY easier than doing this on a cPanel box.