How do I find my IP

How do you find your ip? This is actually a two part question. First do you want your global ip or your local ip? A global ip…

Debian – Remove a package completely

Apt-get remove is not always enough to remove a package completely. If you try to remove in example the mysql-server package with just apt-get remove, the settings…

Debian – Install WPScan to scan wordpress for vulnerabilities

WPScan is a handy tool to scan your wordpress site for vulnerabilities. And it is better you do it your self before someone else do. The official…

Ubuntu – Can´t resolve hostname

On my home network for some reason my ubuntu machines can´t resolve hostnames when first installed. None of my Debian machines seems to have this issue. If…

Debian – Add USB hard drive

USB drives is a good way of extracting large amounts of data from your servers quickly. And of course a lot of other things. There are a…

WordPress change permalink gives error 404

If you change your permalinks from default to something else, and it gives you a 404 error. Chances are the rewrite module in apache2 is not enabled….

Debian – How to install PhpPgAdmin

Always handy with a web based database tool. Here is how to install and access PhpPgAdmin on a Debian variant. First to install the package. apt-get install…

Debian – Replace failed hard drive in software raid 1

I recently had to do a disk replace in a software raid 1 system, running on a Debian KVM host. On my server my first disk (sda)…

Debian – Install PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, another popular sql database server. Here is how to install one in Debian (and Debian variants). However during the Debian installation if you select Database Server,…

Linux – Start, stop and reboot your KVM guests from command line

I prefer using a gui when controlling my virtual machines. Learning how to control them in the most basic way from the command line or terminal is…