Managing remote servers requires either a very good memory to remember connection options like usernames, remote addresses, ports and further details or a good way to document all the details for each server. The SSH config file should be your helping hand to control and simplify SSH connections. If you …

Dock is a shell script which helps you to bootstrap databases and other tools in seconds. You don't install the tools natively on your computer! Instead, Dock runs a Docker container on your machine and exposes required ports and IP addresses to your host machine. Your benefit: concentrate on development …

Gogs is a self-hosted git service written in Go. It's extremly fast and actually really easy to install and upgrade. This guide presents the steps to upgrade your running gogs instance to a newer version. The upgrade process bases on gogs binaries. The restore guide at the end will show …

When using the desktop version of Ubuntu you'll eventually get or probably have the problem that apt-get update throws a lot "Failed to fetch 404 Not Found" errors. Additionally, you may have the same problem when running apt-get install. Don't worry, it will be fixed in a minute. {{outline}} The …

Update 19th Sept 2014: We added a reference to the GitLab Omnibus Readme as additional resources at the bottom of this post. This post describes how to configure a running GitLab instance with a (self-signed) SSL certificate. The following steps assume you already have a running instance of GitLab available. …

Sorting in MongoDB can cause a lot pain (in the ass!). The problem: MongoDB always sorts case sensitive in the following order Numerics: 0-9 Uppercase letters: A-Z Lowercase letters: a-z For the following examples, assume the upcoming Tag schema and documents in our Tags collection: Schema { name: String, approved: boolean, …

Ubuntu usually ships with an outdated version of nginx. To install the up-to-date version, follow these steps: sudo -s nginx=stable # use nginx=development for the latest development version {{outline}} By setting nginx=stable you declare a temporary environment variable that defines the nginx version you want to install. Use …

MongoDB, Inc. released their newest version 2.6 of MongoDB at the end of May and the Ubuntu/Debian repositories still provide an older version. To install 2.6 follow this guide. Of course, you can use this guide to install MongoDB 3.0. Register APT Repository First, you have …