A general overview of SSH2 for PHP can be found at the official Secure Shell2 reference. If you look at the requirements section, you will see that two other libraries are required for it to work. They are OpenSSL and libssh2. I explain here how to install both of these first. And then we proceed to actually install ssh2 for PHP shell connections.
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WordPress Updates & Installations Via SSH
SSH provides a significantly more secure way of updating WordPress files and plugins or performing new plugin installations. Here, I explain how to enable WordPress to use SSH for all updates and installations.
Installing PowerShell And Azure PowerShell On Ubuntu
For quite some time now, PowerShell has been cross-platform. This means you can now use it on Mac OS and on the many different flavors/distributions of Linux. Here’s how to install PowerShell Core followed by Azure PowerShell on your Ubuntu machine.
VNC For Ubuntu On Amazon EC2 – A GUI To Your Server
So you want to access your Ubuntu Server like you would a regular desktop – with a graphical front end instead of just a terminal. This tutorial explains how you can do this using Virtual Network Computing (VNC). Since I’m a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS), I will be explaining how to set up VNC for Ubuntu on Amazon EC2. However, the general procedure described here will work for any normal Ubuntu server setup.