I’ve just started playing with the UnityPark Suite which is a replacement networking system for Unity from a company called MuchDifferent. One of the tools is a custom Riak client called uGameDb. For development they recommend using a virtual machine to run a single Riak node and they have a handy guide on how to … Continue reading Configuring Static IP for Ubuntu Guest in VirtualBox →

Getting WordPress set up with pretty urls on nginx is fairly straightforward. First thing we need to do is create a database for WordPress in MySQL and a user for this database. mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE wordpress; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO "user"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "pass"; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT Enter your MySQL … Continue reading Installing WordPress 2.5.1 on nginx with pretty urls →

The nginx webserver is a lightweight alternative to apache and is perfect for running on a vps where resources are scarce. First we need to install our packages. sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev I am using apt-get instead of aptitude here so we don’t get a lot of unwanted dependencies installed. The MySQL install … Continue reading MySQL, nginx and PHP on Ubuntu 8.04 →

Following on from my previous article on setting up a vps server running Ubuntu 8.04 I am now going to configure a simple firewall. Linux uses a rules based firewall system known as iptables. To check your current rules use the following command. sudo iptables -L As it’s a new install we don’t have many … Continue reading Configuring a simple firewall with FireHOL →

These are the steps I took to setup a fresh vps at linode.com running Ubuntu 8.04. Hopefully this will serve as a basic tutorial to configuring and securing a linux server. Once you've deployed your distribution in the linode account manager and waited for the server to build your vps you need to connect to … Continue reading Ubuntu 8.04 setup on linode.com VPS →