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SSH keep alive

Depending on the network you are using, an ssh connection may drop (time out) if you don't do anything active on it for a while. This is easy to fix....

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Move phpmyadmin to a different address

By default, phpmyadmin (the essential MySQL admin program for webservers) is installed with an address of /phpmyadmin/ on the default domain on your website. This means that automated scripts can find...

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Getting locale failed message when doing apt-get upgrade

If you're getting "setting locale failed" messages when you're doing an upgrade on a newly-installed server, the cause is as it says - there isn't a locale to set....

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Set up an Ubuntu 9.04 server firewall with UFW

Setting up a basic, minimalist firewall on your server is easy with ufw (the "uncomplicated firewall"). The example here is for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, but apart from the install should be...

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Welcome to Linux Vector

Welcome to Linux Vector - a little blog about Linux (mainly Ubuntu), webservers and website admin....

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