Category Ubuntu

Ubuntu 16.04

Install NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Today we’ll look at installing NGINX on a freshly installed server running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. A little bit about NGINX: NGINX is a lightweight opensource web browser capable of serving static files using far lesser memory than Apache and handling…

Ubuntu 16.04

Find which version of Ubuntu you’re running

Today we’ll learn how to find which version of Ubuntu you’re running. To do this, launch a terminal window and issue the following at the terminal: lsb_release -a The terminal window will throw back the version of Ubuntu currently installed,…

Ubuntu 16.04

How to install GeoIP module on Ubuntu for NGINX

Today we’ll be looking at how to install the GeoIP module on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04 for NGINX. You may come across an error like the following while trying to compile/install Nginx from source: ./configure: error: the…

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Create new database in MongoDB

Today we’ll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials mongo -u ‘username’ -p ‘password’ –authenticationDatabase ‘admin’ If you’re successfully authenticated then you’ll see the following prompt: To…