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Andrew Fletcher
Goal: Restrict content access through username and password entry on an Nginx server. 1: Apache Utilities Package First, update your server’s package index: sudo apt updateCheck if the utilities package exists in your environment by executing the command dpkg --get-selections | grep apacheResponse: apache2-utils install libapache-pom-java installSo it exists.  But what do you do if it doesn't exist? How come I need to install apache-utils?  To restrict access you will be using...
Andrew Fletcher
How to set the Private file path in Drupal using the following steps: Create a...
Andrew Fletcher
This issue I have a folder with about 10,000 files in it.  I want to scan...
Andrew Fletcher
Using Homebrew for speed tests... I'm using Speediest CLI - for more details go...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to...
Andrew Fletcher
How to count the number of files in a directory.  At some point you'll have a directory or directories that you need to know the number of files in them.  On Linux, the list command (ls) is piped with the wc -l command. ls | wc -lThis command works great if all the files are located in one directory.  What about if you have multiple directories.  Then you will need to use the find command piped with the wc command find <directory> -type f | wc -lThis command only...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you remove a file from git? Use the command (rm) to remove files from...
Andrew Fletcher
Moving a Git repo due to a change of agencies   Steps to change the...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories. First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc. Now I wanted to replace several of the directories on the server.  Starting with home, var and etc.   But what is an efficient method to overwrite a directory?   Also removing any directories that aren't in the...
Andrew Fletcher
Goal: Restrict content access through username and password entry. 1: Apache...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories.  The first is...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...