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A PRIVATE GIT SERVER CRASH COURSE
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...
Migrating to Amazon Linux 2
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...
How to Manage File and Folder Permissions in Linux
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...
How do I add multiple user to UNIX group?
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...
Tutorial: Install a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux 2
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...
SETTING UP JAVA ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE ON EC2
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...