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Resetting your mysql root password

Duffy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:33:40 +0000

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 be reset to the one you specified in the mysql table dump

How To Install WordPress (From Command line)

Gamerx287 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:23:14 +0000

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 wordpress

The next step is to edit the wp-config-sample.php file (using your favorite editor such as nano, vi, etc.) and putting in your MySQL info for the WordPress database.

nano wp-config-sample.php

Then change the following

define('DB_NAME', 'YOUR-DATABASE-NAME-GOES-HERE');
define('DB_USER', 'YOUR-DATABASE-USER');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'YOUR-DATABASE-PASSWORD');

You then have to rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php

mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

The final step is to go to the website you are installing WordPress on and fill out the information and it will install on the MySQL Database. It will then give you a login name and password and you can go from there.

I hope you can put this tutorial to use by using WordPress for your site.

Lighttpd virtual hosting

Duffy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:42:51 +0000

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 = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain1/access.log"
}

$HTTP["host"] == "domain2.com" {
server.document-root = "/home/domain2"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain2/access.log"
}

Save your config and restart lighttpd
```
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
```