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Steps to setting up Ubuntu on VPS
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Steps to setting up Ubuntu on VPS

  1. remove ssh to server from ~/.ssh/know_host file
  2. add sudo user adduser username
  3. give user sudo power usermod -aG sudo username
  4. switch to non root user su username
  5. update apt-get sudo apt-get update
  6. install firewall sudo apt-get ufw
  7. open SSH port in firewall sudo ufw allow OpenSSH
  8. enable firewall sudo ufw enable
  9. update locale sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
  10. Remove Apache
    1. Remove apache2 packages and dependencies sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2-common
    2. Also need to purge apt-get sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
    3. Search to see what's left whereis apache2
    4. Remove the files that show up sudo rm -Rf FILES
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