How to install a Minecraft server (Java Edition) on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Yesterday, Eli told me 100 random people were on our Minecraft server. Incidentally I set the server limit to 100. One of the players told him it was advertised on a server list. That’s odd because this is a private Minecraft server and … Read more
Over the years I’ve used a number of Linux distributions (and FreeBSD), these are my top 5 and how I rank them: Desktop I’m not a big fan of Ubuntu’s Unity, so Ubuntu-Gnome, Kubuntu, Debian and Fedora are my top distros for desktop choices. If you want the latest Gnome features Fedora gets them first. For KDE I … Read more
*** DEPRECATED StartCom no longer exists. Please see my newer SSL Certificate Guide Using Let’s Encrypt *** Here’s a quick tutorial on how to obtain and setup a certificate from StartCom. StartCom offers free personal certificates, these aren’t the fake certs where you have to setup your own CA and it only works when people … Read more
Over the last few days some of you noticed a 403 forbidden error from time to time. So I’d login, check the Apache error logs and see this entry “(13)Permission denied: /home/benjamin/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable.” Well the permissions were set, I had the executable +x bit for www-data … Read more