In this video tutorial we are going to setup an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Minimal Virtual Machine inside VirtualBox on Mac OS-X with it’s own network presence on our LAN. Continue Reading

In this video tutorial we are going to setup an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Minimal Virtual Machine inside VirtualBox on Mac OS-X with it’s own network presence on our LAN. Continue Reading
Webmin is a great web-based administration tool for Linux servers. To install the debian package of Webmin 1.730 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server, we are going complete the following steps. First, we’ll need to get the Webmin debian package: wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.730_all.deb Now run the install command against the debian package: sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.730_all.deb If we run… Continue Reading
Installing Webmin 1.630 on Ubuntu 13.04 or 13.10 is more-or-less the same process as installing Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04. Of course I’m assuming your Ubuntu server is up-to-date, just download the Webmin 1.630 RPM package: nmino@ubuntuserver:~$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.630_all.deb And run the installer: nmino@ubuntuserver:~$ sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.630_all.deb If the installer ends while notifying of unresolved dependencies, simply… Continue Reading
Now that we’ve setup our Craftbukkit/Minecraft Virtual machine to mount our box.com account into a folder in our user directory, it’s time to configure a simple script and cron job to sync our server to the cloud. First, let’s make and new bash script named boxsync to run the rsync process: minecraft@mcserver:~$ nano boxsync We… Continue Reading
We’ve built an Headless Ubuntu-Based Linux Virtual Server host machine using Oracle’s VirtualBox and phpvirtualbox for administration and setup a minimal Ubuntu installation and installed the CraftBukkit Minecraft server. Now that we have it up and running, I want to configure an automatic backup of the Minecraft server files to the cloud using the free… Continue Reading