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cookie_good's avatar

ubuntu server 20.04

Has anyone here played with Ubuntu 20.04?

I got it up and running ago but having problems with SSL on MySQL remote connections. This is a major upgrade, and it going to cause a lot of refactoring....

Bleeding edge PHP, MySQL, etc.

Have you tried 20.04 and if so, what are you encountering?

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Tray2's avatar

Been running it since saturday morning on my server without any issues. However I don't run a webserver on it.

Not knowing if you run nginx or apache but check these guides out

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-apache-with-php-and-mysql-on-ubuntu-18-04-lamp/

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-nginx-with-php-and-mysql-lemp-on-ubuntu-1804/

These guides are for 18.04 but it's the same in 20.04.

Mysql does not allow remote access by default this needs to be enabled.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-allow-remote-access-to-mysql

How to create a self signed certificate

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-apache-in-ubuntu-18-04

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-nginx-in-ubuntu-18-04

Good luck.

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Tray2
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cookie_good's avatar

Okay, will do, but I was hoping to stir the pot about 20.04.

Snapey's avatar

Okay, will do, but I was hoping to stir the pot about 20.04.

Why? I run two servers on 20.04 one with local database and one with remote

I didn't have to make any special allowances compared to my 18.04 servers

cookie_good's avatar

The main problem I had with it is that TLS 1 is deprecated on 20.04. That meant that I had to upgrade my remote data version. Did take some code maintenance to handle the upgrade, but AWS was not as apocalyptic as I had feared.

I'm haven't upgraded to PHP8 and I expect breaking changes.

trin's avatar

i use 20.10 at home as home system for every day, besides bigsur on macbook. and have many production servers with 20.04 or 20.10. all works fine

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