I have recently had the opportunity to begin using Azure Labs (https://labs.azure.com) for my classes. This lab environment helps to replace a previously self-made and self-maintained VMware environment. By building a lab with a virtualization layer (such as Hyper-V), this lab environment helps build flexibility and repeatability to my teaching. While primarily designed for working […]
Install SNAP Microsoft released updates to Visual Studio Code as a SNAP package. Snap is a package management utility similar to apt, yum, or dnf, that is used to install software and any required dependencies. To install VS Code, we must first install snap. Install snap Configure snap for classic mode (required for VS Code) […]
Install LAMP Stack To begin installation of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) we update the apt catalog. Then we select the packages to install. NOTE: We are also including the git package now so we can use it later. Once the packages are installed, we start them and configure them to auto-start at […]
IF/THEN statements CASE statements WHILE statements
To view the IP address on a Linux machine, we can use either of the following commands from a terminal. NOTE: The first command is deprecated and should not be used if possible. ifconfigip a Option 1: Edit configuration files The first option is to edit the files under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. These files exist for each […]
In this example, we will be installing the Apache web server on CentOS version 7. Once installed and configured, we will then setup a sample website on the server to show how to install fully functional website, and confirm everything is working properly Installing Apache Step 1: Update the software catalog On a Linux machine, […]