6 Mar, 2007
Enabling the root user password is convenient when you first setup a server. Often there are many procedures that require root access. If you have the root account enabled you will save yourself the time and keystrokes that it takes to emulate the root user with the “sudo” command. You also have the option of disabling the root user when you are done.
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2 Mar, 2007
This tutorial is going to highlight the installation of a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) server. A LAMP server will be the basis of a few other projects I intend to write tutorials about so what better place to start? At the end of this tutorial we will have a server running Ubuntu 6.06 Linux capable of hosting a website. Pretty basic, I know, but it will be invaluable in the future.
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