First log into the machine containing Certbot and access the user who has permissions to execute the command or use sudo. To check when your cert(s) are about to expire: You can renew your cert(s) with this command. It will check if any certs have less than 30 days until it expires, if so it […]
This tutorial is not a step by step guide for the entire process. It builds on what you learned from following the entire blog series Raspberry Pi Webserver. To add another domain and website to this existing Apache server, have your domain name bought or grab a free one. Also, add your domain to Cloudflare […]
My most used command options of the command APT
This is quite simple to do, you just need to edit 2 files. Let’s start! First, edit the hostname file with the command below and replace what is there with your new name. Second, edit the hosts file and replace any occurrence of the old name with your new name. It’s always good to do […]
Changing your drive letter is quite easy, here are the steps. If your are new, remember to never change the drive letter of your main Windows boot disk, unless you know what you are doing. Let’s get to it. Open Disk Management: Right click the Start icon and then left click Disk Management in the […]
Webmin is a web based tool to help manage your Linux system. Let’s get started by downloading the official installer script. Execute the script. Let’s install Webmin now. Once installed, we will need change the default port number and then allow this through the firewall (if you have one). To begin, edit Webmin config file […]
The curl command allow you to download or upload data to another server. Let begin the install. Once the install is finished, test for the version to make sure it is working. Example usage, display the headers of this website. For more information on curl, view the man page in the terminal – man curl.
It’s time to create the personal prompt you always wanted. After this tutorial you will have something that will look like this, but with this tutorial you can configure the prompt anyway you like. mainuser -> your user name21:12 -> display the timelab01 -> hostname of machineanytext -> whatever you want to add~/.mlp -> current […]
Wget is used to download files in a terminal. To install it, issue this command in the terminal. You can test the version to ensure it is installed correctly. This is the help file for wget. I hope this page was helpful. Why not check out the man pages for more ways this command can […]
To install sudo you must first become root. The easiest way to switch to the root user is by using the su command – Substitute User. Using the command without any user id defaults to the root user. The dash will start the shell as a login shell. Issue the command to switch to the […]
This command line option will require editing the boot config file, and a reboot of the Raspberry Pi will be needed for the new configuration to take affect. Log in to the terminal on your Raspberry Pi and edit the file config.txt located at /boot. Locate this filter: [all]. This means that any setting below […]
This is part of a series on hosting a website on the Raspberry Pi. Click the Raspberry Pi Webserver in the Blog Series to the right for the complete steps. To start log into the Raspberry Pi terminal and install Certbot. Since we are using Apache, we will use the Certbot module. Once that is complete, make […]
This is part of a series on hosting a website on the Raspberry Pi. Click the Raspberry Pi Webserver in the Blog Series to the right for the complete steps. To continue any further you will need to have purchased or obtained a domain name. You will need access to the domain name registrar to complete Cloudflare […]
Let’s continue with configuring WordPress. Bring up a browser and enter your domain name, you will be redirected to the WordPress configuration page. Click your language and click Continue Click Let’s go! Enter your data for these three fields. You will use the database you created in the previous section, the example I used was […]
This is part of a series on hosting a website on the Raspberry Pi. Click the Raspberry Pi Webserver in the Blog Series to the right for the complete steps. To configure and view our WordPress website, you will need to configure Apache. Remember to change example.com to your domain name. Change the default information from this: […]