• Set up a Railo/Apache/MySQL host on Ubuntu - Part 3: install FTP server and set up user access

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    This article will show you how to install FTP server on Ubuntu (might work with other Unix OS as well) and how to give your users FTP access only to the folders you want them to manage. This is the third article of the series "Set up a Railo/Apache/MySQL host on Ubuntu", which is composed of 4 parts:

    The topics of every article are quite independent. So you don't need to read the first 2 articles if you are only interested in installing FTP server and set up user access. Read full article

  • Set up a Railo/Apache/MySQL host on Ubuntu - Part 2: install MySQL and enable remote access

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    Following up from part 1, this is the second part of the series "Set up a Railo/Apache/MySQL host on Ubuntu", which is composed of 4 parts:

    • Part 1: install Apache and Railo
    • Part 2: install MySQL and enable remote access (this article)
    • Part 3: install FTP server and set up user access permission
    • Part 4: install subdomains

    In part 1, I showed you how to install Railo and Apache server on Ubuntu. If you would like to follow the series from the beginning, you can read part 1 at Set up a Railo/Apache/MySQL host on Ubuntu - Part 1: install Railo and Apache. However, the topics of these 2 articles are quite independent. So you don't need to read the first article if you are only interested in installing MySQL server.

    At the end of every installation step, if necessary I will include a little part called Step verification for you to know if you have completed that step successfully. It's important that you check this as a step depends on the one before it to be completed. So if you could not get one step done successfully, there is chance you will encounter errors at the steps that follow.

    If you did read part 1, you would notice that it was quite a long article due to the large number of components that need to be configured along the way. Fortunately, installing MySQL is a lot easier and shorter as I will show you. Read full article

  • Set up a Railo/Apache/MySQL host on Ubuntu - Part 1: install Railo and Apache

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    When setting up my VPS last time, I was looking for a complete guide, step by step of how to install Railo on Ubuntu but couldn't find any. Although there are a number of blog posts out there about this topic, they seem to have one or many of the following issues:

    • They make too many assumptions about the OS and the users/developers experience with Unix
    • They do not provide sufficient details about the preparation steps
    • There is no clear and easy way for me to verify that I follow the steps in the guide correctly

    I did use those posts to help with my setup though and big thank to them. But it was a hard time as I had to do many changes to the posts to make it work. So I decided to document my installation process and post it once I got time. And here it is. I hope this guide will help more developers who do not have much experience with Unix to set up their host.

    I will show you how to install Railo, Apache and MySQL (or RAM) on Ubuntu server. I will also show you how to set up FTP server and add multiple domains and subdomains to your host.

    There are 4 parts in this series. This is Part 1: install Railo and Apache. Read full article