Server Administration

Tutorials

  • Create Amazon EC2 Instance

    Create Amazon EC2 Instance

    Amazon EC2 Instance is a virtual computing environment, or simply a virtual server in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud provided by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). AWS also provides free tier in your first year that includes 750 hours of t2.micro instance type, and free 30 GiB of EBS storage, to name a…

  • Check Apache, MySql, and PHP versions

    Check Apache, MySql, and PHP versions

    To further check Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) stack installation, the following can be made to know the exact installed version of each application. Check Apache version. To check the Apache HTTP Server version, type httpd -v on the command line. $ httpd -v Apache’s version is 2.4.55. Check PHP version. To check the PHP…

  • Password Protect Your Apache Server

    Password Protect Your Apache Server

    Protect a directory on an apache web server by adding a password that would require a user to authenticate themselves and thus would give them authorization to access a protected folder. Requirements: Apache HTTP Server ^2.4 .htaccess file The first attempt is to try to use the directory configuration file (.htaccess file) to make the…