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Linux MAMP Tutorials

How to setup multiple sites hosted on your Mac with OSX 10.8 + (MAMP Part 5)

Welcome to part 5 of the MAMP tutorial. In this post we will go over setting up friendly URLs on your Mac server. We will be adding a new site called http://mysite.localhost

You will also learn how to run multiple domain sites on your local server. Having Virtual Hosts enabled is really useful when developing sites on your localhost. It’s also super easy to setup.

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Linux MAMP MySQL Tutorials

How to setup MySQL on a Mac (MAMP Part 2)

Welcome to part 2 of the MAMP tutorial. In this part we will go over setting up Mysql on your Mac’s localhost. Part 1 goes over everything you need to do to setup PHP on a Mac

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Git Linux Tutorials

Pulling a git repo from github to your Ubuntu server

A quick tutorial showing you how to install and setup git on an Ubuntu server and pull a repo from Github.

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Linux Tutorials

Easy way to give user permission to edit and add files in /var/www

Tutorial showing you how to give an Ubuntu user the right to edit and add files in the /var/www folders.

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Linux Tutorials

How to become root using sudo in Ubuntu

Simple trick in Ubuntu to become root if your user has the sudo group assigned to it (this way you won’t need to type sudo in front of every command)

sudo -i
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Linux Tutorials

How to list all of a users groups in Ubuntu

If you need to see all of the groups assigned to a user simply type the following into the Terminal:

groups username

To display all the groups on your Ubuntu system just type:

groups

 

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Linux Tutorials

How to find the owner and group of a directory in Ubuntu

There are two ways to find the owner and group of a directory in Ubuntu:

First way:

ls -l /path/to/file

The 3rd field outputted is the user and and the fourth is the group

drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Feb  7 01:17 foldername

Second way:

stat -c "%U %G" /path/to/file

This will return

user group
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Linux Tutorials

Ubuntu Rackspace, how to set up a server qualified domain name?

Easy tutorial to Fix the error: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name after installing Ubuntu 12.04 on your host.

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Linux Tutorials

Setup a folder so that new files created in it inherit default permissions and group

A quick tutorial showing you how to ensure that new files created in your file structure will inherit the existing user and groups (no matter which user creates the new files). This tutorial is for Debian/Ubuntu and Mac: