In this post, we will see how can install our own Minecraft server on our Ubuntu (or any Debian based) system.
By installing our own Minecraft server, and exposing it to the outside world, we can play with our friends online in a Survival or a Creative world.
We also have full control off the game, and a lot of customization and modding abilities.
And other needed software:
screen -S "session_name"
Press Ctrl-D in the session.
Hold down Ctrl and hit A and D in the session.
Lists all sessions with their PID:
screen -ls
Re-attach to a running session using its PID:
No-IP is a Free Dynamic DNS and Managed DNS Provider, that we can use to get a free domain name. There a lot of free Dynamic DNS services, you can find a good comprehensive of them here that we can choose from, but this was the first service that I personally tried.
The good with this service is that we have a big selection of free domain names that we can choose, so we can easily find a domain that is available for the hostname we want to have.
Install postfix and mailutils if not already installed:
sudo apt install postfix mailutils
In the screens, that will show up when installing postfix:
General type of mail configuration:
System mail name:
serverhostname,someuser@serverhostnameserverhostname.com also.NEEDS TO BE FILLED
sudo apt update
sudo apt install fail2ban
Once the installation is completed, the Fail2ban service will start automatically. You can verify it by checking the status of the service:
sudo systemctl status fail2ban
The configuration file are in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf, /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/defaults-debian.conf.
Its best to not modify these, as they can be overwritten with an update.
The purpose of this project is to create a Web Application in which a user can search movies to watch in different streaming platforms (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+).
The user can filter the results with different criteria and choose to search on any number of the streaming platforms in order to find the desired movies. Also, some statistics are provided about the number of movies that are available on each platform in the form of a pie chart.
In this post we will see, how we can change the default port (port 80) of Wordpress to something else (port 1280) in order to have port 80 available for other applications to use.
To make this change we will need to change 2 main things, the Apache configuration files and some options in the MySQL database.
We are assuming that Wordpress is installed in a LAMP stack on an Ubuntu or Debian server.
Wordpress Installation and Configuration Guide.
Log in to a MySQL administrative account (root):
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create wordpress database:
CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Create exclusive user for this database:
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Flush the privileges so that the current instance of MySQL knows about the recent changes:
sudo apt install mysql-server
Accept almost everything, and add secure root password:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
If you don’t change the authentication method from auth_socket to mysql_native_password
then anyone with a sudo user password can log in as root.
To check the authentication method, enter MySQL:
sudo mysql
And type:
SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
To configure the root account to authenticate with a password, run the following ALTER USER command.
Be sure to change password to a strong password of your choosing,
and note that this command will change the root password you set in the security script:
In this post, we will see how can make a node app a systemd service.
Suppose you have built a Node.js application and you have been running it all the time with npm start or by using another application like nodemon, so that you don’t need to restart the server. That is acceptable for development, but once you want to deploy that application somewhere this becomes infeasible.
By deployment, we don’t always mean something big and serious like AWS, Heroku, Containers. We can also mean your laptop or PC, that you want to run your app seamlessly, without needing to explicitly commanding it.