Quick answer: on Ubuntu 24.04, run sudo apt install phpmyadmin on a server that already has Apache, MariaDB and PHP. Answer Yes to the dbconfig-common question and tick apache2 with the Space bar. Then open http://your-server/phpmyadmin/. You cannot log in as root on...
rsync copies only what changed between a source and a destination, so it is the standard tool for backing up a folder on Debian or Ubuntu. The safe routine is: run the command with -n (dry run) first, then run it for real. This guide uses one test folder and shows the...
Quick answer: run uptime to see the load average, then top (press P to sort by CPU, 1 to show each core) to see who is using the processor. Compare the load average with the number of cores from nproc: a load above the core count for a sustained period means work is...
Quick answer: run free -h and read the available column. That is the memory Debian can give to new programs without swapping, and it is the number that matters, not free. To find what is using it, run ps -eo pid,%mem,rss,comm –sort=-rss | head. The commands on...
To check disk space on Debian 13 (Trixie) or Debian 12 (Bookworm), run df -hT to see how full each filesystem is, then sudo du -xh –max-depth=1 / | sort -rh | head to see which top-level directory is using it. Repeat the du command one level deeper until you...
