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Grabbing and Sending files and folders over SSH

SCP allows you to transfer files over ssh between computers Copying to remote machines To copy a file to a remote machine run the following scp ~/file/to/be/transfered username@hostname:~/destinationfolder If you want to copy a directory you would use -r which would look like this scp -r /folder/to/be/transfered username@hostname:/path/to/destination and if you want to specify a SSH port use -P which [...]

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Enabling SSH on ESXI

On the console screen press ctrl+alt+f1 Type in unsupported then press enter and then type in your root password, You should know have a console window like the one below Run the following command vi /etc/inetd.config Press the i key and then use the arrow keys until you come down to the line that beings with #ssh remove # [...]

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Passwordless SSH login using SSH Keys

SSH keys allow you to login without requiring you to type in your password this tutorial will teach you how to set them up First we need to create the key ssh-keygen -t rsa Then we need to move it over to the machine that we want to be able to login too without the need for a [...]

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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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Enable Serial Console

This tutorial will show you how to set up a serial console on a Linux system, and connect to it via a null modem cable. This is quite useful as it allows you to easily get a console on the system if there are any problems with it and you cannot access it via ssh Check [...]

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