Apr

17

Change the default language and keyboard layout of a Debian machine

April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Recently, I was given a Virtual Machine development appliance to work with. The machine was running Debian which I like but it had been installed in French which I … dislike. First, I find Debian to be not so well translated and I’d rather use it in English. Second, I use qwerty keyboards so the [...]

Feb

27

Setting up Ruby Enterprise, passenger and installing Teambox (RubyOnRails) on Debian

February 27, 2011 | 4 Comments

Teambox is an open sourced project collaboration software with simple task managements, file sharing and wiki collaborations for small teams. Teambox can be used in a hosted mode (Saas version with various plans depending on how many team members and projects you need to manage) on teambox.com or the code can be downloaded from GitHub [...]

Jan

24

Installing Mint on Virtual Box (from an .iso)

January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment

From time to time, I feel like testing a Linux distrib. again. I always used Debian on my servers so, for me, on a desktop, the easy solution was Ubuntu. Then I heard about Mint debian. I just downloaded the Mint debian 10.iso file and ran it on my Imac with VirtualBox in a matter [...]

Jan

23

FTP upload in a script

January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The FTP protocol is simple to use. In a console, type ftp <host> to connect to your host. Enter your login and password when prompted and use get to download and put to upload a file. But what about doing that in a bash script ? Here is a working example of an FTP upload [...]

Jan

13

Sending emails from a Dedibox server

January 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

If you install Debian on a Dedibox dedicated server, by default, you can not send emails from a PHP script (or by any call to sendmail). In order to enable that, you need to reconfigure exim (which is the MTA installed by default). Run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. Select the Internet mode and answer the few following [...]

Jan

9

Backing up a Dedibox server (or most any Linux)

January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

I finally decided to use a single dedicated server instead of several distinct web hosting services for the different blogs I run. I picked a Dedibox server and added a backup option to have access to an extra storage space on another computer. There are two things I want to backup : my website files [...]

Jan

8

World Gone Web hacked

January 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

On Monday morning, I received an email from Google Webmaster Tools letting me know that my WordPress blog had been hacked and was temporarily blacklisted. Users accessing my blog using Google Chrome or Firefox were advised to stay away for safety. I appreciate Google’s notification of this problem as well as their concern (and Mozilla’s) [...]

Jan

2

Debian Etch: setting up the basics

January 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

There are a few things I always do when setting up a new system running Debian: I install the bash-completion, I set up my terminal colors, enable coloration in vi/vim and other little improvements. In order to make my next setup much easier and save some time, I gather the necessary steps in this post. [...]

Jan

1

Installing SVN on a clean Debian Etch install

January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment

This was my first assignment for 2011 and I used this blog post as a precious reference. I assume that, at this point, SSH server and Apache are already installed and running. Let’s start : Install the SVN packages aptitude install subversion aptitude install libapache2-svn Create a repository for your project(s) mkdir /var/subversion svnadmin create [...]

Nov

4

Debian Lenny: updating to SVN 1.6.4

November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

Working with Windwos users on my SVN repository, I needed to upgrade SVN to match with their Tortoise version. Here are the steps to do so: add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list 1deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free get the public key from lenny-backports running the following command 1wget -O – http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add [...]

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