Best GUI for MySQL on Linux – Top 10 Tools

When working with MySQL, it can be very difficult to visualize an entire database of information, especially if there are relational databases that all work in tandem to present data. Fortunately for us, there are numerous GUI for MySQL applications that can be downloaded and installed on a Linux system that make the process of managing databases much easier. Many users prefer interacting with MySQL through a GUI rather than a command line, where it is difficult to visualize multiple columns of data and understanding how they correspond to each other.

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Kibana Nginx Configuration On Ubuntu 18.04

Install ELK On Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

Objective

Install ELK on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

Distributions

Ubuntu 18.04

Requirements

A working install of Ubuntu 18.04 with root privileges

Conventions

  • # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
  • $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user

Other Versions of this Tutorial

Ubuntu 20.04 (focal fossa)

What is ELK

If you’re in a situation where you manage large amonts of data logs, the ELK stack is exactly what you’re looking for. The ELK stack combines Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana into a simple, yet powerful, open source stack that lets you manage large amounts of logged data from a convenient graphical web interface.

All three tools are developed by Elastic, so they work in tandem perfectly, and they’re very easy to get set up on your Ubuntu system.

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How to setup Linux Apache Mysql Python server

Apache, MySQL, and Python can be used in tandem to host and serve a website from a Linux system. This assortment of software is known as a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python) although sometimes the ‘P’ means PHP, which can either be used in addition to or as a replacement of Python. Apache serves the website, MySQL stores and retrieves information from a database, and Python can generate HTML and related code for the site’s visitors to view.

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Wordpress Installation on Ubuntu Linux with Apache and MySQL

WordPress has remained one of the best and easiest ways to get a sleek site up and running ever since its inception in 2003. As a matter of fact, current trends only show its popularity continuing to increase. WordPress is simple to use, and even hosting it yourself isn’t that hard, as we’ll prove to you in this article.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to get your site hosted with WordPress on Ubuntu Linux. We’ll use Apache as our HTTP server, and also install PHP and MariaDB (an open source implementation of MySQL) since WordPress requires them in order to function. This assortment of packages is commonly referred to as a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Once those packages are installed, we’ll go over the configuration of Apache and MySQL, including initial setup of a database and user, before installing WordPress itself. Towards the end, we’ll also show you how to configure a self signed SSL certificate, or get a free one from Let’s Encrypt, which enables your site to utilize HTTPS.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install and configure Apache
  • How to install and configure MariaDB for MySQL
  • How to setup a MySQL user and database for WordPress
  • How to download and install WordPress
  • How to configure a self signed SSL certificate for your WordPress site
  • How to configure a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt

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Install MySQL on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux

In this guide, we will show you how to install MySQL on Ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa. There are two separate packages for this on Ubuntu, depending on what you need to do. You can either install the MySQL client package, which is used to connect to MySQL servers, or install the MySQL server software, which can be used to host your own databases. We’ll cover both below.

After installing a MySQL server, we’ll also go over the first steps you’ll need to get started with hosting a database, which includes making a username and password, creating a database, and granting user permissions on that database.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • Install MySQL Client on Ubuntu
  • Install MySQL Server on Ubuntu
  • How to setup a MySQL database

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How to install RegRipper registry data extraction tool on Linux

RegRipper is an open source forensic software used as a Windows Registry data extraction command line or GUI tool. It is written in Perl and this article will describe RegRipper command line tool installation on the Linux systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos or Redhat. For the most part, the installation process of command line tool RegRipper is OS agnostic except the part where we deal with installation pre-requisites.

Pre-requisites

First we need to install all prerequisites. Choose a relevant command below based on the Linux distribution you are running:

DEBIAN/UBUNTU
# apt-get install cpanminus make unzip wget
FEDORA
# dnf install perl-App-cpanminus.noarch make unzip wget perl-Archive-Extract-gz-gzip.noarch which
CENTOS/REDHAT
# yum install  perl-App-cpanminus.noarch make unzip wget perl-Archive-Extract-gz-gzip.noarch which

Before proceeding, ensure you install perl if not already present on your system.
If you need to install Perl first, see our guide on yum install perl.

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Apache Solr Linux install

Apache Solr is open source search software. It’s capable of being implemented as an enterprise-level search engine thanks to its high scalability, advanced indexing, fast queries, and ability to integrate with a large variety of applications. It’s capable of tackling big data and also has high availability with its load balancing and failover configurations.

The platform is written in Java and can be installed on Linux systems. In this guide, we’ll show the step by step instructions for installing Apache Solr on some of the most popular Linux distros, including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and Red Hat.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install Apache Solr on Debian based systems
  • How to install Apache Solr on Red Hat based systems
  • Initial configuration of Apache Solr
Apache Solr installed on Linux

Apache Solr installed on Linux

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How To Install LAMP in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

Objective

The objective of this article is LAMP setup. Installing LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver includes the setup of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP server, also known as LAMP stack.

Operating System and Software Versions

  • Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

Requirements

Privileged access to to your Ubuntu 18.04 system will be required.

Conventions

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How to create a hot standby with PostgreSQL

How to create a hot standby with PostgreSQL

With databases such as PostgreSQL, the need may arise to scale and provide high availability. If the database does not have a backup which can take its place in case of failure, then all of your operations that depend on the database can be affected from just a single point of failure. Even with virtual systems, there may be a time when you can’t add more resources to a single machine to cope with the ever-increasing load.

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How to install LAMP stack on AlmaLinux

A LAMP stack is an assortment of software that contains everything you need in order to serve a website, show dynamic content, and store or retrieve data from a database. The software is all within the LAMP acronym, namely the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database (or MariaDB alternatively), and PHP programming language.

If you’ve installed AlmaLinux or migrated from CentOS to AlmaLinux, then you already have the first requirement done. Next, you just need to get your LAMP stack up and running. In this guide, we’ll show the step by step instructions to install a LAMP stack on AlmaLinux.

In this tutorial you will learn:

  • How to install all LAMP prerequisite packages on AlmaLinux
  • How to secure MariaDB database
  • How to start httpd and MariaDB services
  • How to open HTTP and HTTPS firewall ports
LAMP stack running successfully on AlmaLinux

LAMP stack running successfully on AlmaLinux

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