LHammonds Tutorials

Volume / Disk Management During installation, we specified a 30GB LVM which was just big enough to fit the base installation with a little bit of breathing room. When the volumes were created during setup, the file systems were automatically expanded to fill the entire volume. We will now increase ...

Initial Configurations Edit the network configuration file: sudo vi /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml Change the Ethernet interface: (We need to change it from using DHCP to a static IP) From: network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: enp0s3: dhcp4: yes To: network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ...

Install Ubuntu Server Power on the machine and insert the Ubuntu Server Network Installer CD (or USB) Installer boot menu - Select "Install" and press {ENTER} Press {ENTER} to accept English Press {ENTER} to accept United States Press {ENTER} to accept do not detect keyboard layout Press {ENTER} to...

Analysis and Design The Ubuntu Server Long-Term Support (LTS) is great choice for companies because it is a solid operating system that happens to be free. If professional support is needed, there is an option to buy support for the Long-Term Support (LTS) versions of the operating system. The larg...

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Post on Steam Here is a batch file that can help you with making backups of your single player maps. Every time you run the batch file, it will create an archive of each map and will include a timestamp in the filename. Each subsequent run will create new archives each time without worry of overrid...

Upgrading phpBB The download page for phpbb does a pretty-good job of telling you how to upgrade phpBB. It can get a bit confusing if you are upgrading very old versions of phpBB so here is what I did to upgrade 3.0.8 to 3.2.0 which required (for me) upgrading to specific versions in between. Pre-U...

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Install phpBB At the login prompt, login with your administrator account ( administrator / myadminpass ) and then temporarily grant yourself super user privileges by typing sudo su Type the following commands: mkdir /var/www/forum.mydomain.com cd /tmp wget https://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-...

Install Required phpBB Libraries Type the following to install the required libraries: apt -y install php7.2-json Install Optional phpBB Libraries Type the following to install the optional libraries: apt -y install php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php-imagick PHP Module Verification Make sure the modules you ...

Configure MariaDB / MySQL In this scenario, a dedicated and general-purpose database server already exists and it will be used to hold the application's database. Connect to the MariaDB/MySQL server using PuTTY. At the login prompt, login with your administrator account ( administrator / myadminpas...

Create Ubuntu Web Server Click here for detailed instructions on setting up a production-quality Ubuntu Server . Once you have the base operating system installed, proceed to follow these instructions to install Apache web server . When it talks about setting up your web root, be sure to substitute...

------------- WORK-IN-PROGRESS ------------- Overview phpBB is a free PHP-based bulletin board forum software. This documentation will describe the steps to manually install the software onto a dedicated web server and tie it into a separate dedicated database server which is typical of a productio...

------------- WORK-IN-PROGRESS ------------- WARNING - I have used VMware ESXi for years for all my hypervisor needs and as such, KVM as a replacement will be new to me and this is my "learning area" as I go. Greetings and salutations, I hope this thread will be helpful to those who follow in my fo...

Player List Script for Web Page This bash script will update a web page for each instance to show all known players. The web page(s) should be pulled into your main web page via an include statment because the script re-creates the page each time. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var...

Shutdown Script This bash script will notify online players of a pending shutdown and then proceed to shutdown each instance. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-shutdown.sh sudo chown root:root /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-shutdown.sh sudo chmod 700 /var/scripts/prod/sd...

Backup Script This bash script will create a full backup of your maps and notify players in-game when the backup starts and finishes. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-backup.sh sudo chown root:root /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-backup.sh sudo chmod 700 /var/scripts/pro...

World Size Script for Web Page This bash script will update a web page to show the current world size for each instance you have. The web page should be pulled into your main web page via an include statment because the script re-creates the page each time. Create the file to hold the script: sudo ...

Day Count Script for Web Page This bash script will update a web page to show the current day counts for each instance you have. The web page should be pulled into your main web page via an include statment because the script re-creates the page each time. Create the file to hold the script: sudo t...