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Resetting your mysql root password

First of all we need to stop mysql /etc/init.d/mysql stop Create a mysql table dump to reset the password UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('YOUR-NEW-MYSQL-PASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Now we need to start mysql in safe mode and import the mysql table dump mysqld_safe --init-file=/path/to/mysql/table/dump & Finally we need to kill mysql and start it in normal mode killall mysqld /etc/init.d/mysql start Your password should now [...]

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How To Install WordPress (From Command line)

Okay, this tutorial will show you how to very easily install WordPress on your own server from the command line. First step is to make a MySQL database, user and permissions for that user. Secondly, you go to the directory that you want to put WordPress in and get the files: wget http://www.wordpress.org/latest.zip unzip wordpress-*.zip cd wordpress mv * ../ rm -R [...]

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Lighttpd virtual hosting

Virtual hosting allows you to host many websites from one server. Setup The Folders and users adduser domain1 addgroup domain1 adduser www-data domain1 mkdir -p /home/domain1 chown domain1:domain1 -R /home/domain1 chmod 750 -R /home/domain1 adduser domain2 addgroup domain2 adduser www-data domain2 mkdir -p /home/domain2 chown domain2:domain2 -R /home/domain2 chmod 750 -R /home/domain2 Lighttpd Config Open your lighttpd.conf nano /etc/lighttpd.conf Add the following for the virtual host configuration $HTTP["host"] == "domain1.com" { server.document-root = "/home/domain1" accesslog.filename [...]

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Pastebin from command line

Have you ever wanted to show data from your command line but couldn't copy it? there is now a solution the script below will allow you to paste the output of commands into the tuts4tech pastebin just copy the script below and save it in /usr/bin/pastebin then you'll be able to do | pastebin e.g [...]

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