Running an Ubuntu or Debian operating system on your servers comes with a long lifetime. You won’t switch servers and migrate your applications that often. You’ll maintain your system now and then and update installed packages to keep your system secure. Recently, while maintaining the software on our …

Installing packages with the apt-get package manager on Ubuntu or Debian usually fetches the latest known version from the repositories. This is a comfortable behavior to use an up-to-date version of the package. If you want to install a specific package version, you can do that by appending an equal …

We recently updated our SSL certificate for futurestud.io. We decided to use AES256 for the new SSL certificate which requires a password for the .key file. At this point, we didn’t think of any problems with nginx. The nerve-racking part was waiting in secret! {{outline}} Problem: Nginx Asking …

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 …

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 …

Ubuntu usually ships with an outdated version of nginx.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 …

As a developer you'll reach the point where you have to put your hands on server administration, even though for your local machine setup. The typical Google search covers the most topics and tutorials will guide you to finish the purpose. Chris Fidao (known as @fideloper) created a very inspiring …