How I migrate servers in 20 minutes

This somewhat requires you’ve followed my suggestions on not committing yourself to a certain host or your own DNS or mail servers, if not the extra steps might take you 10 more minutes, maybe days.

There are plenty of ways to migrate to a new server depending on how you’ve setup the server or your host, these are just to show the simplicity of my migrations after following the post linked above.

Step 1:

Rsync your other server’s files to the new…

Well the path from CentOS 4.4 > 5 didn’t…

Well the path from CentOS 4.4 > 5 didn’t go so well. I mistakingly restarted the box before I could make sure everything was okay and now I can’t SSH into it after the restart. Hope it’s not too much work for the (mt) guys. [Link] (0)

Installing Webmin on CentOS

One of the first things I did on my Media Tempe (dv) was install webmin because I’m a huge fan of easy it let’s you manage your web/server, e.g. web interface to quickly change config files or restart particular services without having to login through SSH.
A more official description:

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to…

DANCAMERON: SSH keygen is so wonderful. For some reason I shy’d…

Series of Tubes

Youtube plugin on the aTV (youtube video below). I just need to get the ATV loader setup which will let me download and install these plugins directly from the aTV itself. No need to SSH in and restart the box.

Apple TV

Following these directions to boot OS X from a USB drive I was able to modify the AppleTV filesystem to enable SSH. Running SSH allows for just about anything:

• Added Quicktime components to enable DivX, Xvid, WMV and just about anything else. #
• Added a plugin to browse files on the AppleTV. Otherwise you won’t be able to play those DivX and Xvid files. #
• Ran a afp:// mount in order to browse the media files on another system/server. #
• Enable VNC. #

I can’t wait…

Mediatemple service

I recently asked mediatemple about ssh port forwarding and if they allowed ssh tunneling. Not only did they give me a replay the same day, a yes/no answer, but they gave me instructions to help me along.

Daniel,

We definitely allow these connections. If you need a walkthrough on setting this up, this might be a good place to start:

http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/adminguide/32/Port_Forwarding.html

If that doesn’t work out for you, try the other search results from google.com:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+port+forwarding&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

If you should have any further inquiries regarding your (mt)…

What am I doing

I am still getting my server worked out and I just have been so lazy with other projects I have or want to do.
Sara is gone this week and I wanted to get so much computer stuff done like set up a proxy server with squid. Get the Flash communication server up and running and get some apps together for it to run on the server.
It is getting so complicated, for one I hadn’t worked on a Linux box before…

Set-up a cron job for wp-mail.php

1) Enter through ssh

2) Login

3) Type crontab -e, to edit

4) Type your cron job, I use: 01 * * * * GET /home/…/wp-mail.php

5) Now to save and exit cron just press esc then ‘:x’ and its saved.

wp-mail.php

How to set up your wp-mail through cron.

1) Enter through ssh
2) Login
3) Type crontab -e, to edit
4) Type your cron job, I use: 01 * * * * GET /home/…/wp-mail.php
5) Now to save and exit cron just press esc then ‘:x’ and its saved.