Introduction Having a sandbox is great way to test your disaster recovery methods. I’ll step through a process that makes a backup of the Cacti data. Then we can use that backup file to restore from as needed. There are some prerequirements to the steps I’ll be using. These are LAMP, phpMyAdmin, Webmin, Cacti, and a ssh client. Do keep in mind that any plugins or templates that are not standard are not included in this backup. This simply gives…
Here is some Background before we get started. I had originally posted about setting up Cacti on the Raspberry Pi a few posts back. Since there was plenty of on line tutorials, I just made references to sites that have since changed their content. When I returned to the subject recently, I found that the steps were plagued with antiquated commands Ultimately, I was able to find the compile a list of commands that will help you get Cacti operational…
Purpose Use the Raspberry Pi 3 with Ubuntu Mate as a sandbox for testing WordPress Details There are several sources of information about the subject of installing wordpress on the raspberry pi. Here are just some that I had found the most useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbVlFoK_jXE https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/lamp-web-server-with-wordpress/ The fundamentals always start with LAMP. This is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since we are using Ubuntu Mate, the linux portion is taken care of. Now onto the remainder of the list….