Monthly Archives: October 2011

Install LAMP and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 11.10

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and php, (or Perl). It’s one of the most popular web hosting platforms. If you’re developing websites, it’s good to have your own private development environment to use while you build and test your websites. This post will show you how to install and configure a LAMP web development environment on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot to use for testing. It can also be used to set up LAMP on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a Dedicated Server, but please note that this post does not cover setting up proper security for serving content to the internet. Continue reading

Command Line Basics: Finding Files

In today’s post I’m going to show how to use the command line find program to search for files. There are certainly different GUI tools available in Linux, such as Beagle, to search for files. The advantage of many of these systems is that they index the files on your system so that the searching is rather fast. The disadvantage is that the indexing can often slow down system performance, so many users end up disabling it. There’s also the situation where you might not have access to a GUI, like when you’re logged in to your web hosting server through ssh. Continue reading