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Linux Tutorials

Get tips from the Silicon Dales staffers on Linux setups for servers – especially good for running a WordPress install.

We love Linux, and, for those interested, we are probably most active with CentOS and the Amazon derivative which is in use at AWS, for whom we are consulting partners.

How to find Apache version via Command Line

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A long time ago, we published an item which showed how to discover your Apache version on a Plesk installation. Sometimes, people land in there…

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How to Block an IP Address from accessing your website

Looking to block a specific IP address from accessing your website? Maybe you saw some rogue activity, and its coming from a specific IP? Perhaps…

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How to: Find out Apache version from Command Line (SSH)

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Have you logged into your server or VPS via command line (SSH – this is really the best and only way to do this now…

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How to: Zip contents of a directory, excluding certain sub-directory

Have you ever wanted to zip an entire directory, but exclude the contents of one or two (or more!) sub-directories, using PuTTy (or another terminal)…

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PHP 7.0 Reaches End of Life on 3 December 2018 😱

If you, like us, were thinking Christmas comes round faster and faster each year, then you’ll no doubt think it was only yesterday that the…

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How to convert colours to black in images using ImageMagick

If you want to convert PNG (or similar) files containing, for example, icons which are in one colour (say green) to black, then the command…

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How to Get Size of Folder (and all its contents) in Linux / Unix via PuTTy / Terminal

If you ever wanted to know “how big is that directory?” and by this you mean the entire directory, and you have access over SSH,…

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Fix Mailgun “550 Sender has no A, AAAA, or MX DNS records.”

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Sometimes, we setup Mailgun for transactional email, because this helps web based forms, and other, email to get sent to the right place. Its also…

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How to find file creation / modified date using Unix commands in terminal window

If you’re ever using PuTTy or another terminal window to SSH into your server and you want to know “how old is that file” (or,…

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