Ubuntu UFW Uncomplicated Firewall Examples

See also: Securing an Ubuntu Server

UFW community documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW

UFW server documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html

UFW page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall

Implementing a basic firewall on your Ubuntu server is simple.

UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) is a simple configurator for Netfilter, the packet filtering system that is built into the Linux kernel. This will then filter IP packets that [...]

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XAMPP on Mac OSX with Virtual Hosts

XAMPP is an all-in-one LAMP development solution for multiple platforms. I use Linux on my main computer and OSX for my laptop.

I’ve selected XAMPP to provide the LAMP environment on my Mac. It is free, in on-going development and works well.

Because I have several projects in development at once, I need [...]

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SSH trick: temporarily return to your local shell

If you are using SSH to access a command shell on a remote system and you would like to temporarily return to a shell on your local system, there is an easy way to do so.

Simply type a tilda (“~”) and control-z.

This will place your SSH session into the background. You will [...]

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