Setting up and securing web server (+MySQL +Rails/PHP) on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
After repeating these operations many times in various setups, I decided to create a public set of instructions and share them with the world. This should be suitable for most of the simple web sites, utilizing Ruby on Rails or PHP.
The setup works on Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS (scheduled end of life April 2015). Other components of the setup are Nginx as the web server, Phusion Passenger as application server.
I’m using this setup most often on Linode VPS, however none of the instructions are Linode specific.
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