Posts Tagged:ubuntu

Ubuntu in the Cloud

How to Fix Invalid Locale Setting in Ubuntu 14.04 in the Cloud

If you use Ubuntu in the cloud, specifically in AWS, you may see this warning message after SSHing into your server: WARNING! Your environment specifies an invalid locale. This can affect your user experience significantly, including the ability to manage packages. If you than try to install any new packages with apt-get or even restart/reload…

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VirtualBox

Cannot Create Virtual Environment in Vagrant In Windows 8.1

One of the web projects that I am working on uses—broadly speaking—MongoDB, Django, and Python. There are other technologies involved too, but these lie at the core. The project is then deployed on Amazon EC2 instances which run on Ubuntu 12.04. I do not work on the project by myself, but in a small team…

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Permission denied (publickey) When SSH’ing into EC2

Recently I needed to add a new admin account on my EC2 instance, but once I created the account, I couldn’t SSH into the server for some reason. I was getting denied with Permission denied (publickey). error message. I tried the usual tips, such as: 1) Ensuring that the permissions on the user’s .ssh folder…

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Adding a New Admin User on AWS EC2 Ubuntu Instance

If you can already SSH into your Ubuntu based AWS EC2 instance with the default ubuntu user and and the default key file you generated in AWS, but need to add another admin user with their own private key, here’s how to do it: 1) Let’s assume the IP address of your instance is 123.456.789.123…

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