Category Linux

Short tutorials for installing a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and other Linux articles for Samba, FTP and many others

CentOS Alternatives

Looking for CentOS alternatives after they announced the future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream serving as the development branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Here come Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux OS!

Connect Apache to Tomcat Using mod_jk

This short tutorial will explain how to connect Apache 2 to Tomcat 10 using mod_jk. First thing, let’s install mod_jk. Now let’s create the workers properties file: Here is a simple workers.properties example: Next, edit Tomcat’s server.xml file to enable…

Install OpenJDK on Ubuntu 20.04

OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). Before you begin, let’s update the apt package index: Now let’s install it (it can take a few minutes as there…

Create a Virtual Host for Apache on Ubuntu

After you installed Apache you can start hosting websites. For each website (domain or subdomain) you will need a Virtual Host. This requires a file that conatins information for Apache to find where the website’s files are on your server,…

Install Samba on Ubuntu 20.04

Samba allows you to share your files with your Windows, Linux, Chrome OS computers, etc. It’s not really part of LAMP but for a development server it’s nice to have it. 1. Let’s install it 2. Edit the configuration file…

tar – The ZIP for Linux

tar is like the zip for Linux. It has just too many options / parameters. You need to know 2 combinations, one to create an archive and the other to extract files from an archive. If you want to learn…