These following commands are for working within an SSH connection on a Linux server, I’m documenting them here for my own reference. I don’t use SSH enough to remember these commands.
Connect to ssh
email@domain.com followed by password
Close ssh connection
exit
show contents of the error log
cat /var/log/apache2/error.log
Show last few lines of the log
tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
Path to php.ini
In most servers it’s located at
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
ls
show the contents of the directory
ls - l
show the contents in a list with more details
cd
change directory
cd path/to/go
rm
remove file / folder as long as it’s empty
rm folder
rm - r
remove files/folders recursively
rm -r folder
mv
move to file or folder to a new destination. It can also be used to rename files/folders
mv config.php Config.php
touch
make a new file
touch sample.txt
vim index.php
open a file using vim
vim index.php
nano
open a file using nano
nano index.php
