Questions tagged [ubuntu-server]

Ubuntu Server is a flavour of the Ubuntu operating system. It is the same core product as the Desktop version, but with certain differences that make it more suitable as a server. Most notably, it's missing a GUI. is a free desktop and server operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Note that https://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Philosophy

The goal of the Ubuntu project is to provide a free computer environment, centered on a Linux distribution and complemented by online services.

Releases

Ubuntu includes a small amount of non-free software such as drivers. Ubuntu offers a large amount of packages directly taken from Debian's unstable distribution, in the form of the universe repository.

There is a release of Ubuntu every six months. One in four is a long-term support (LTS) release.

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Common tasks

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setting up ubuntu server with spoofed mac address

I have two computers and one ethernet cable. The cable is from admin and only one mac address is allowed to have internet connection. The mac address is set for my main pc. I want to set up an ubuntu server on my second pc while I am gone. I…
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Insert_id not working on web uploaded in server

I've hired Cloudatcost, and I've configured an Ubuntu server, installed LAMP and uploaded my web page. I have a section where I upload some text fields and an an image, the problem is that the image is not being uploaded, but when I run my page…
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Connecting AZURE Ubuntu Server using CLI

Recently I deployed two virtual machine WIN 10 and WIN Server 2012 which is easily to connect through GUI. Now I need to host the WordPress site on Ubuntu server using CLI. I have installed azure cli and run basic command like azure login, azure…
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Can't SSH to ubuntu AWS after creating new user

Today I tried to ssh to my AWS instance, as usual but got a "Permision denied" error with -v giving me the following: debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: localuser@localmachine debug1: Authentications…
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Would running a certain script every minute via cron be detrimental to anything?

This gets run every minute: cd /var/www/html/[redacted] && find . -exec touch -a -m -t 200001010000.00 {} \; tac /log/[redacted] > /var/www/html/[redacted] chmod 775 -R /var/www/ chown www-data:webadmins -R /var/www/ exit 0 I feel like that's bad,…
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Deploy Spring MVS project on Ubuntu Server

I have an Ubuntu Server virtual machine on Amazon EC2. I want to deploy a Spring MVC project on it. As a result of my searching I found that this is possible but how? What steps should I go through?
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SERIOUS help port forwarding on my router?

Okay, so I know that these kind of questions are pretty popular on SO, but please hear me out. I have a belkin router, model F9K1102 v1. I also have a Westell Dual Connection modem, model A90-220015-04. Now, I have done port forwarding before,…
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What platform (server installed on ubuntu vs ubuntu server) to prefer for website development?

I am developing a website which is supposed to have blogging capabilities (which I aim to achieve via wordpress) and a CRM based upon jsp and oracle express (as the website will be deployed over linux server, sql server is not an option). For…
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Can using cp command corrupt files transferred across different filesystems? Should I be using something like rsync instead?

I am trying to copy files from one hard drive to another in my home server using the cp command. I am copying from an NTFS-formatted partition to an ext4 partition on a new hard drive I have installed. Is it possible for the cp command to corrupt…
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How to install Java on Ubuntu Server?

I need to install Oracle JDK 11 on Ubuntu Server 18.04. I have seen many tutorials but all of those point that I need to download this repository: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java But it is not working. This is what I get: Also, I…
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create ubuntu server user with only read/write permissions for home directory

I would like to create some users on my ubuntu server. I only want to let the users have read/write access to their home directories, and not be able to read or write to any other user's home directory. Does anyone have a suggestion how to do…
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create new mount point in ubuntu

I have already installed ubuntu in one of my server and it looks like below udev 7.2G 0 7.2G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.5G 41M 1.4G 3% /run /dev/vda1 99G 4.6G 89G 5% / tmpfs 7.2G 4.0K 7.2G 1%…
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Can't establish connection over second NIC (two hops)

We are having trouble with network routing configuration in Ubuntu Xenial. We have many servers with both Debian 8.4 (Jessie) and Ubuntu 16.04.2 (xenial) and the exact same networking setup (or at least as far as we can see). They all have two NICs…
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phplist on Ubuntu 16.04.1 server - Initialize the Database no reaction

I got a new server with Ubuntu 16.04.1 installed. It comes with php7 I installed phplist-3.2.5 in the root of the host pr.xxx.com I tried in the config file: $pageroot = '/'; and $pageroot = ''; http://pr.example.com/admin let me fill out the…
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