27 Jul 2010

Ubuntu Lamp Server

Quick and dirty Ubuntu Lamp Server

A lamp server on Ubuntu is pretty simple to setup to get working right away. Simply run the following command:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Create a MySQL password:

Tasksel will continue to install the components:

Open your browser and point to http://localhost. You should see the following message:

It works!
This is the default web page for this server.
The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

14 Jul 2010

Netstat on Windows

The netstat command is used to display active network connections on your workstation or server. Netstat can be used to display active TCP connections, ports on which the computers is listening, ethernet statistics, the IP routing table, IPv4 and IPv6 statistics. Used without parameters, netstat display active TCP connections.

Syntax

netstat [-a] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-p <em>Protocol</em>] [-r] [-s] [<em>Interval</em>]

Parameters

-a : Displays all active TCP connections and the TCP and UDP ports on which the computer is listening

-e : Displays ethernet statistics, such as the number of bytes and packets sent and received. This parameter can be combined with -s

-n : Displays active TCP connections, however, addresses and port numbers are expressed numerically and no attempt is made to determine names

-o : Displays active TCP connections and includes the process ID (PID) for each connection. You can find the application based on the PID on the processes tab in Windows Task Manager. This parameter can be combined with -a, -n, and -p.

-p Protocol : Shows connections for the protocol specified by Protocol. In this case, the Protocol can be tcp, udp, tcpv6, or udpv6. If this parameter is used with -s to display statistics by protocol, Protocol can be tcp, udp, icmp, ip, tcpv6, udpv6, icmpv6, or ipv6.

-s : Displays statistics by protocol. By default, statistics are shown for the TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IP Protocols.

-r : Displays the contents of the IP routing table. This is equivalent to the route print command.

Interval : Redisplays the selected information every Interval seconds. Press Ctrl + C to stop the redisplay. If this parameter is omitted, netstat prints the selected information only once.

/? : Displays help at the command prompt.

Examples

coming soon…

Alternatives

TCPView from SysInternals is another nice utility that takes netstat one step further. With TCPView you can view the active process name as well.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

13 Oct 2009

Hello world!

If you are seeing this it is because I’m trying to create this site pretty much in real time.  I started creating this minimalistic theme and decided I’d upload changes as I go rather than only testing from my development machine.  This theme will have nothing very fancy, but I do plan to actually start blogging about things I do as an IT Pro and Web Developer.  Hopefully the majority of this blog will be completed over the next week or two.