I just got a new CentOS Linux server at Linode, and installed a bunch of software on it that I need to run a couple of Drupal websites and a Play Framework website, and here are my very cryptic notes from that installation process. (Sorry, these are more for me than for you.)
First, I installed all the necessary Linux stuff:
The (temporary) end of an era ... yesterday I shut down my matsuvp.com website, and redirected it to my new Valley Programming website. The matsuvp website was most likely the first Drupal 7 website in the state of Alaska. Beyond that, I had fun making it a bold-looking site in a state with a bunch of conservative-looking websites.
A quick note on a MySQL error: I got the following error when using mysqldump this past weekend:
mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'USER'@'localhost' to database 'DBNAME' when using LOCK TABLES
The solution to this problem/error was to use one of these mysqldump commands:
I’m configuring Nginx as my primary web server, with other Apache servers behind it, and I wanted to configure Nginx to serve up a blank page whenever someone tried to hit my server’s IP address, instead of one of the websites that’s hosted on the server. That is, I wanted to serve up a blank page rather than the default Nginx page.
In short, I added this setup information to my nginx.conf configuration file:
