This guide shows the step by step instructions to install WordPress on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache HTTP server, MySQL database, and an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. 1. Get started by installing all of the required packages on your Ubuntu 20.04 system. This will include Apache, PHP, MySQL, Let’s Encrypt certification bot, and all of …
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After you’ve installed AlmaLinux, VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your AlmaLinux virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on AlmaLinux. 1. …
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Are you getting the following error when trying to login to the MySQL root on an Ubuntu system or other Linux distribution? We’ll show you how to clear it up in a matter of seconds. ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ This error is caused by the auth_socket plugin. The simplest solution is …
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The GNOME desktop environment is the default GUI for AlmaLinux, but it doesn’t always come pre-installed, for example if you opted for a minimal install during the AlmaLinux installation. In this guide, we’ll give you the commands you need in order to install GNOME on AlmaLinux. 1. AlmaLinux makes GNOME easy to install with yum …
Images that contain Exif metadata may reveal when and where a photo was taken and with what device, among other things. While this is usually a desirable feature, it can also be a privacy concern if the images are going to be shared or published online. Exif data also helps inflate file size. In this …
Although JPG images already utilize lossy compression to reduce file size, this compression is rarely optimized. jpegoptim is a Linux command line utility that can optimize JPG photos, yielding a smaller file size and zero quality loss. The resulting image data is bit-for-bit the exact same as the original, but the files can enjoy a …
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Ubuntu has automatic updates enabled by default. Ordinarily, this is a convenient feature that helps our system stay up to date with the latest features, and protected with the newest security patches. However, on test systems or in edge cases, it can just be plain annoying. In this article, we’ll show you how to disable …
This article will go over the step by step instructions to download an entire website from the Wayback Machine at archive.org. This can be done from the Linux command line, with a lot of options that enable us to download a certain snapshot/timestamp of the website, or all captures available on the Wayback Machine. We’ll …
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In this article, we will compare all the best and most popular Linux compression tools. This will include benchmark tests to see which compression method performs the best, and we’ll also weigh the pros and cons of compatibility and other areas. Compression methods covered will be gzip, xz, bzip2, 7zip, zip, rar, and zstd (Zstandard). …
This article will go over the step by step instructions for migrating from CentOS Linux to AlmaLinux. These are the official instructions as released by the AlmaLinux developers on their GitHub page. Before beginning, make sure you have made a backup of your CentOS system. These instructions worked fine for us, but you’ll want to …
