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X2go is a great way of remotely connecting to a headless Ubuntu server (assuming you’re the type of person that wants to manage Ubuntu graphically). In my case my headless Ubuntu is just a hobbyist’s server and I think it’s cheaper to have one hosted for me, than to pay for the electricity and with the added fire risk of hosting a physical server myself. (Except for disk space considerations).I’ve been using DigitalOcean droplets and I think their control panel…

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In the post, http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample, the author gives an URL example for testing various parameters, especially PATH_INFO and $fastcgi_path_info. This URL is, http://lemp.test/test.php/foo/bar.php?v=1 (this URL is not a hyperlink and does not work, of course) I was interested to find what Location clause would be necessary to test this on my own server. In my case, I wanted to test in a separate sub-directory, so the test string becomes:- http://mydomain.co.uk/mytest/test.php/foo/bar.php?v=1 (this URL does not work either. It’s intended you construct a…

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Since my Ubuntu DigitalOcean droplet is for non-serious use I find it useful to have X running so I can use graphical tools to manage it, and I’ve installed LXDE. It works really well. With X2GoServer installed and X2GoClient on my Windows 8.1 laptop, server maintenance is very convenient. Unfortunately, once I installed LXDE, the Console window available via the DigitalOcean web control panel also showed the X server and the lightdm login prompt. This couldn’t be used successful. There…

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