Questions tagged [vps]
A VPS or Virtual Private Server is a virtual machine hosted by a VPS provider and accessible only via the internet. It may also be called VDS or cloud server. The most common VPS types are OpenVZ, KVM, Xen and VMWare.
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Apache with more than one PHP version
I have Apache and PHP 7.4 installed on my Ubuntu 20 server on VPS. But I also need to have PHP 7.0 for one project which does not run on Php 7.4.
Is this possible?
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Xubuntu doesn't ask me to create a new user on first boot (Ubuntu 20.04)
I've been trying for few days to install xubuntu which seems to works the best with rdp (less latency)
Here is how I proceed:
-Boot the vps
-use "tasksel" command
-select Xubuntu Desktop ...
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My VPS provider offers only Ubuntu 18.04 minimal, but I need standard -- is there an easy upgrade path?
My VPS provider offers various Ubuntu server versions, but only the minimal ones, which I found out when I wasn't able to proceed due to missing package "acl". The provider added it for me, ...
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How do I setup an IPv6 tunnel?
I have a ubuntu 20.04 VPS. I want to setup an IPv6 tunnel. So I went to tunnelbroker.net and created a new tunnel. However, it tells me to paste something into /etc/network/interfaces. When I looked ...
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VPS ubuntu ip connect and ip local are difference
I use putty to connect to VPS ubuntu, with IP: 23.XX.XX.45.
But when I show IP on VPS : "hostname -I " IP: 10.x.x.8
I do not know , Why they are difference.
link screen
[1]: https://i.stack....
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Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, install GUI
I have recently rented out a VPS, and installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 (x86_64-Minimal) on it. I installed SSH on it, and I'm accessing it from a Windows 10 machine using command line.
However, I want to ...
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Pinging example.com results in PING example.com.com [closed]
I'm setting up an unmanaged VPS of mine.
I have created two A records at my domain name registrar to point example.com to my ip, and www.example.com to my ip.
My /etc/hostname has example.com in it.
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nginx is now 404 Not Found
I had nginx before, but now it's 404 on web. Maybe something restarting, but I don't know for sure.
404 Not Found
nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
I have searched for various errors nginx. sudo nginx -t is ok.
/...
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Unable to install GUI on Ubuntu
I just bought a VPS and I have it in running using puTTY. Now I want to install GUI in Ubuntu but I am unable to do so. I have followed many tutorials but at the end they write “sudo reboot” in their ...
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How to hide folders from specific users on ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) using samba
Im using ubuntu 20.04 on a vps and im looking to use samba to simply hide folders from users who cant edit/open them. As far as i know, samba is used to share files to windows computers or other ...
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UFW Not Blocking Anything (and Not Using Docker)
System: Ubuntu 18.04 on VPS.
UFW not doing anything. It's well activated, I've even reloaded the rules.
For testing, I set the following rules:
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming)...
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Is it possible to save Ubuntu configuration?
I purchased a VPS (ubuntu 20.04) to deploy my Laravel project .
After installing all dependencies :
PHP(7.4)
Mysql
Java 8
Composer
Npm
ElasticSearch
(...)
My question is : Is it possible to create ...
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What would be the simplest way to move VPS server?
My hosting provider doesn't allow to make a backup. I need to move Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to another VPS. What would be the way to do that? Could not find any reliable information on this.
I think that it'...
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Snapd won't install on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS
I can't get snap to work on an Ubuntu 16.04 vps.
I get this output when trying to install:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
snapd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 ...
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Deleting Swap File on VPS Server Using Ubuntu 18.04?
I followed the following guide to create a 1GB swap file on my 1GB RAM Ubuntu 18.04 VPS: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-18-04
However after getting ...
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Mysql database server keeps going off
My Mysql database server keeps going off. I have to login to virtualmin/webmin to start it again. My server is a VPS 1 gig ram with Ubuntu installed. I have not installed any new software apart from ...
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How can I access Google Scholar in w3m through ssh?
I have a remote VPS and sometimes I want to browse Google Scholar on it in w3m through ssh.
But Google Scholar says that they can't let you access it for security reasons(with a title "Sorry").
Can ...
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using Virtualmin migrate sites on DigitalOcean to new vps but always return 403 forbid
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02:...
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clamav shows twice in htop, takes a lot of memory and service has error but is running
When showing the status of clamav, I see the following
clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: ...
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users and persmissions in a new VPS
I have root user and a "domain" user for the virtual server/domain/site in the VPS. I'm going to disallow root access to SSH, meaning SFTP won't work as well.
I want to be able to view logs using ...
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mv: cannot stat 'wordpress/': No such file or directory
I am stuck. For two days I have been trying to install Wordpress on my VPS (Ubuntu 19.04). Everything is going well to the point where I want to move wordpress to a "wordpress" folder. Both folders ...
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Several questions about my VPS - ubuntu
I noticed some suspicious actions on my vps and I wanted to understand them a bit more.
postfix: I saw a lot of actions using postfix in mail.log so I shut postfix down and saw
Jan 9 22:58:28 ...
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Hi I can't see my website using ip adress
I owned a vps for testing purposes and I installed apache2, but when I try to visit my site in a browser I get this error
I visited several links, so I verified things like if my apache2 is running ...
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how to redircet VPS ip to the https domain?
i'am using a VPS ubuntu 18.4 and i have been installed nginx and certbot to redirect the ERP system website form from 8069 to 80
to be linked with the domain name everything is going well
if i write ...
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How to close a VPS and leave programs running (using "screen" command)?
Imagine that I have a program running in a VPS.
I want to close that VPS (maybe turn off the computer) but keep that program running.
I understand I can use "screen" to do so. But I'm unsure how ...
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Network Interface on landscape-sysinfo (VPS)
I have a VPS (Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS) with "landscape-sysinfo" (from "landscape-common" package)
When the info is shown it appears only 1 network interface (venet0 = 127.0.0.2) and not showing the ...
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How to have Chrome Browser always start after every system restart w/ xfce?
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm a newbie with these things.
I want to run a chrome extension inside a VPS (DigitalOcean), I have managed to open Chrome and install the extension and is ...
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Ubuntu VPS 18.04 server Apache2 Domain Alias
I hope someone can help me some. I believe this is an easy problem. I currently have a VPS running ubnuntu 18.04 server and Apache2 . I have prestashop installed and trying to configure the multi ...
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how to create build server in ubuntu 16.04 with ip public ISP?
i have a question, i think i always buy vps to access to the server computer, and i have an idea, how can my pc be a server?
For example, I have bought the internet + public IP package
So, how can I ...
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VPS bandwidth spike exactly once every hour
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on a digitalocean droplet.
Here you can see the DigitalOcean bandwidth monitor graph
As you can see in the image the spikes occur exactly once every hour. According to the ...
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High Disk Usage /dev/vda3
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Currently have a website hosted on the above version, it is a VPS.
Under hard disk usage something called /dev/vda3 is using the most space.
85 971.38 MB used out of 99 724.34 MB ...
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Can not access to Rabbitmq interface via ip
I have installed Rabbitmq under ubuntu 18.04 vps and here are the steps
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install erlang
apt-get install rabbitmq-server
systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
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How many resources does a visit or more than one consume in a ubuntu VPS?
I am using AWS taking advantage of the grace period to start internships, at the moment I do not have any more questions except the consumption of resources or others with the same reference.
Most ...
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Tpmfs /run 100% used
I have a VPS with Nginx for a wordpress blog and I have a problem I don't know for what reason.
Whenever tmpfs 99M 20M 79M 21% / run gets 100% of used my database drops and I need to reboot the ...
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making Socks5 proxy from Ubuntu VPS
I'm trying to make a socks5 proxy from my ubuntu 16.04 vps but all the guides on doing so are outdated and i cant find any new programs.
I tryed dante-server_1.4.1 and dante-server_1.4.2.
Are there ...
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Dirty filesystem on a VPS
I was alerted to my site, on a VPS, going down by Uptime monitor. I SSHd to it to reboot, which is usually what it needs, and then it all went bad.
Turns out the underlying NAS was rebooting for no ...
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building older package from git
Im trying to run a older version of xdotool and this is what i do:
git init
pwd
git checkout edbbb7a8f664ceacbb2cffbe8ee4f5a26b5addc8
but it return me with this error:
fatal: reference is not a ...
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x11vnc on ubuntu vps
this is what i did:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
installed a video dummy https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/78156
x11vnc -storepasswd
sudo x11vnc -xkb -noxrecord -...
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Running xdotool on VPS
I connect to my VPS using tigerVNC Viewer and run a command like:
xdotool getmouselocation
but I always get the error:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
On my desktop it is working but not on my ...
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Running PureVPN on an Ubuntu VPS
I have PureVPN with static ip. I would like to run it on a VPS to change the IP. Anyone have an Idea how to set it up?
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Install apache2 got error Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server
I've been install apache2 on my VPS but here i don't know why it's show me an error message like this :
Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "...
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How to prevent the second site with apache2 from serving root folders
I am setting a VPS with one IP adress to serve multiple websites. The first one is running. The second only shows an Index of / listing the two folders containing files of the two websites within the ...
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Why my VPS IP is not pointing to server base directory in Lampp on Ubuntu
I had buy a vps server with Ubuntu installed on it. I added the ip in the A record of my domain then domian is sucessfully pointing to my server. I installed Lampp on server and both the domain and ip ...
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PHP returns "permission denied". Possible ownership issue?
As an update. I just figured that it works okay for one level. For example, mkdir('/var/www/laravel/storage/first', 777, true) but doesn't work when there are multiple levels like mkdir('/var/www/...
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Ubuntu weird process use 60-70 percent of the CPU
Recently I noticed that my VPS is doing a lot of work, I ran 'top' command and I saw a process with a weird name who using 60-70 percent of the CPU (I attached pictures).
When I kill those process ...
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How to make VPS hosting using vmware, and etc
I need to make some VPSs on my DS. How can I use it, which virtualization software is the best, how can I control, manage them? I would be very appreciated if you would be helpful for me! Thank you!
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How to visit a webpage using PuTTY?
I'm using Ubuntu VPS server, and I want to do a simple thing.
I want to go to a webpage through the terminal to do a couple of checks regarding my website's traffic.
I just need it to open a browser (...
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Install Remote Desktop (Ubuntu-desktop, xRDP or whatever) on Ubuntu VPS?
How can we setup a Desktop GUI on our remote VPS server, where we have only access to it's terminal (and no DESKTOP is setup there yet), so after that we could connect to that desktop (using Windows ...
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webserver problem
I have a web serwer on VPS.
My website isn't working. In the log files I found these two erors
[Wed Jan 09 06:25:01.902230 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 25757] AH00171: Graceful restart ...
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Keep vps process always!
I bought a VPS, and I want to run a java instance. I want to keep this process always(after closing putty, after closing my PC)
I tried “tmux”. With tmux, the java program still running after closing ...