by ray | Jul 18, 2018 | Confluence, NGINX
Purpose This page describes a possible way to use NGINX to proxy requests for Confluence running in a standard Tomcat container. You can find additional documentation that explains how to use Apache mod_proxy for the very same purpose. For Confluence 6.0 or later...
by ray | Jul 18, 2018 | JIRA
How you start and stop your JIRA application depends on whether you are running JIRA as a Service. Windows If you installed JIRA as a service, you can Start JIRA Server and Stop JIRA Server from the Windows Start menu. You can’t start or stop JIRA manually using...
by ray | Jul 18, 2018 | Confluence
I am trying to stop confluence through ./stop-confluence.sh but it is showing error like this “PID file found but no matching process was found. Stop aborted.” so I try to kill that process with “kill -9 pid” but it showing that “PID: no...
by ray | Jul 18, 2018 | NGINX, HTML / Web, IT / Tech News
Nifty tool to show you a generic SSL configuration would look like for Apache, nginx, AWS ELB, among others. See tool here.
by ray | Jul 18, 2018 | IT / Tech News
I need to write a script that will drop a PostgreSQL database. There may be a lot of connections to it, but the script should ignore that. The standard DROP DATABASE db_name query doesn’t work when there are open connections. How can I solve the problem? This...
by ray | Jul 17, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu, IT / Tech News
I added the user myuserto Postgres. Then I added the database mydatabase in the pgAdmin III GUI and restored from a backup file. So the owner of mydatabase is the superuser postgres. Then I tried to give all rights to access and modify mydatabase to myuser. I logged...
by ray | Jul 16, 2018 | G Suite
Today, we’re introducing data export, a new feature to make it even easier to export and download a copy of your data securely from our G Suite services. To initiate the process, in the Admin console, navigate to the Tools section of the right-side slideout menu and...
by ray | Jul 16, 2018 | AWS
Lately, I have been working frequently with a couple EC2 instances. Remote editing on these instances has become a day-to-day task for me. These instances are based on Amazon Linux. I am so used to the “Ubuntu” way of remote editing, which I have...
by ray | Jul 16, 2018 | AWS, Linux / Ubuntu
Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is the most common way of connecting to Linux hosts for remote administration. Although the basics of connecting to a single host are often rather straight forward, this can become unwieldy and a much more complicated task when you...
by ray | Jul 16, 2018 | AWS
The AWS CLI should be your best friend The AWS console is certainly very well laid out and, with time, becomes very easy to use. However if you are not using the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) from your local terminal, you may be missing out on whole lot of great...
by ray | Jul 16, 2018 | AWS, Microsoft Windows
I am trying to connect to my Amazon EC2 Instance using bash on Windows 10. I have already downloaded MyKey.pem It show me this message @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @...
by ray | Jul 14, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu
The nvidia-persistenced group/user is created by the install script in the nvidia-utils package (or equivalent if you use one from the AUR). Reinstalling nvidia-utils will recreate the needed nvidia-persistenced group/user. Without reinstalling you can directly run...
by ray | Jul 14, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu
I’m trying to setup password-less SSH on an Ubuntu server with ssh-copy-id myuser@myserver, but I’m getting the error: Warning: the ECDSA host key for ‘myserver’ differs from the key for the IP address ‘192.168.1.123’ What’s...
by ray | Jul 14, 2018 | Raspberry Pi
At this point, everyone has already heard that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Acquisitions of this scale take time, but most expect everything to be official by 2019. The general opinion online seems to be one of unease, and rightfully so. Even if we ignore Microsoft’s...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | AWS
I run all my EC2 workloads on Amazon Linux. It comes with a superb AWS integration, a secure default configuration, regular security updates, and I can open AWS Support tickets if I run into any problems. In late December 2017, AWS announced the successor of Amazon...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu
For many users of Linux, getting used to file permissions and ownership can be a bit of a challenge. It is commonly assumed, to get into this level of usage, the command line is a must. Although there is always far more power and flexibility to be had, running...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu
In Linux, I can create a group: sudo groupadd mygroup and add several users to it: sudo usermod -a -G mygroup userA sudo usermod -a -G mygroup userB sudo usermod -a -G mygroup userC Or, if gpasswd is available (should be on most distributions except e.g. Solaris) you...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | AWS
The following procedures help you install an Apache web server with PHP and MariaDB (a community-developed fork of MySQL) support on your Amazon Linux 2 instance (sometimes called a LAMP web server or LAMP stack). You can use this server to host a static website or...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | AWS, Linux / Ubuntu
STEPS TO SET JAVA ENVIROMENT VARIABLE ON EC2 IN 4 SIMPLE STEPS. First, check the version of JDK Step 1: Ensure you have right version of JAVA installed or upgrade if necessary (Optional) The latest version of JAVA is 1.8, by default Amazon Linux has JAVA version 1.7...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu
netstat -tulnap shows me what ports are in use. How do I free up a port in Linux? As the others have said, you’ll have to kill all processes that are listening on that port. The easiest way to do that would be to use the fuser(1) command. For example, to see all...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | AWS
I have an AMI and security group that I’ve been starting instances from, using our VPC and a subnet we’ve had defined, for a long time. Once such instances start, I’m able to SSH to them.So far so good.Lately we started getting error messages about...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Microsoft Windows
Maybe this has happened to you. You went to copy a quote from a press release and, suddenly, this is what you saw: Where’d my color go? I couldn’t figure out what the hell had happened, but my screen was suddenly gray. It was at the correct resolution, and everything...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu
How can I flush the DNS on Ubuntu 17.04? You may use this command: sudo systemd-resolve –flush-caches To verify that flush was sucessfull, use: sudo systemd-resolve –statistics
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Security, NGINX
Introduction Your web site address starts with http:// The site contains interactive elements, such as payment buttons, or text forms etc. For the visitor, the site is flagged by the browser as ‘insecure’. You need to convert the site to https:// This requires that...
by ray | Jul 2, 2018 | Linux / Ubuntu, IT / Tech News
The popular cross-platform Sublime Text editor finally offers official Linux apt repository to make it easy to install and receive update in Ubuntu. Sublime Text is a proprietary source code editor with a Python API. It supports many programming languages and markup...
