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Background As we would like to test the suspicious URL, we could set up a virtual machine and create a snapshot and test that way. Once it has been done, then roll back the snapshot. The problem with this approach is that sometimes you forget to roll back the snapshot and are not sure about […]
Challenge We have a requirement to see the production database via a remote connection so we can run queries internally for further analysis. This production server has tightened security already in place. Solution Get the Public IP address (remote) Open up the browser and type in the following URL: https://ipchicken.com Note down the IP address. […]
Background We spin a few Virtual Machines on Microsoft Azure for the internal network, and the image has no Webmin installed by default – not like in this previous post – A Complete Setup Guide for Contabo VPS Ubuntu 20.04 with preinstalled Webmin + LAMP. Webmin is a web-based tool admins use to manage Ubuntu […]
Background Over time, we use multiple VPN products such as ExpressVPN and IPVanish and they are excellent products. But then we found that it’s underutilised so we decided to find alternative but cost-effective. We found OpenVPN which is open-source. Since we have multiple virtual machines in the clouds, we decided to explore and install this […]
Background When we run a test from the Webmin for sending an email, the recipient of a particular domain (not just one user – it’s multiple users) is not be able to receive an email from the host. However, other domains received the email with no problem. Solution Recipient Side As the domain that I […]
Background After the virtual machine has been provisioning with LAMP and you check the MariaDB status The MariaDB status showed the ERROR 1045 (28000): Access Denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: NO). It happened before BUT no documentation to fix this. Solution From the other cloud services that we have, we knew that this is […]
Background As I wrote the blog – A Complete Setup Guide for Contabo VPS Ubuntu 20.04 with preinstalled Webmin + LAMP previously, my next step is to harden this server from the attackers. We also started using more internal cloud-based applications to host our website and applications. We compiled a blog post about how to […]
Background I haven’t touched the Linux server for ages and getting used to it with Cpanel or Parallel. However, as we need to scale up our internal websites and lower the hosting cost, I need to go back to managing these natively in Linux. When configuring with Ubuntu Linux, it doesn’t sound very comforting. However, […]
