On this post, I'll be explaining as granular as possible how to configure an Ubuntu Server so you can run Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 or Drupal 9 sites or any PHP application on your local environment for development. We'll be using Ubuntu 18.04 which is the latest release until the date of this post and the php/apache packages provided by the distro and it will provide PHP 7.2 packages that are recommended for Drupal development.This post is targeted for Apache Server only, which i think is the most robust web server for Drupal but overall the best option to run PHP applications natively. You can…
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Usually in the enterprise world RAID systems are the most popular and used infrastructures when it comes to data backup and data synchronization but NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices can really improve these processes on small and mid-businesses due to the reduce costs in its implementation and since they are fast and reliable solutions.On this quick tutorial I'm gonna show you how to backup a directory hosted on an Ubuntu Server and transfer the data to a Network Shared Folder hosted on a NAS. I'm assuming you already have a NAS storage up and running on your local…
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Another good option to run Drupal sites nowadays is Nginx. Nginx is a Proxy/Web Server not as complex as Apache and is well known for is security, responsiveness and speed when handling PHP apps together with PHP-FMP. On this this post I will introduce you on how to manually install and run Nginx and PHP-FPM so you can host any Drupal site with SSL support.
Recommended posts:
The suggested installation instructions by drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/node/2310819
Perusio Nginx suggested Drupal Configuration https://github.com/perusio/drupal-with-nginx/tree/D7#installation
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Recommended posts:
The suggested installation instructions by drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/node/2310819
Perusio Nginx suggested Drupal Configuration https://github.com/perusio/drupal-with-nginx/tree/D7#installation
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The idea of this blog post is to show how to install and configure a secure FTP access to your server and provide support for your users.
I'm configuring it so all you users can have their /home/{username} directory available as their FTP folder(s) which I think is one of the most secure ways of configuring an FTP service. After following this tutorial you can create a "ftp" user in your system without ssh access (you can google that ;) ) and use it as you generic ftp user. First of all we need to download the FTP server, in this case I'm going to be using VSFTPD, in order to download it,… Read more
I'm configuring it so all you users can have their /home/{username} directory available as their FTP folder(s) which I think is one of the most secure ways of configuring an FTP service. After following this tutorial you can create a "ftp" user in your system without ssh access (you can google that ;) ) and use it as you generic ftp user. First of all we need to download the FTP server, in this case I'm going to be using VSFTPD, in order to download it,… Read more
Sometimes you may find the need to shutdown a site for any reason an a specific server, basically the server that is listening to the web, so of course you will always want to keep that site(s) up and running while you perform whatever is needed on it, let's call it, 'external server', on a different environment, 'internal server'.
To do so you need to use an apache module called mod_proxy which enables a web server act as a router of traffic to another server, a tunnel.
- Enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http mod_proxy_html on external server
- create a virtual host on internal server… Read more
To do so you need to use an apache module called mod_proxy which enables a web server act as a router of traffic to another server, a tunnel.
- Enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http mod_proxy_html on external server
- create a virtual host on internal server… Read more
