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NOTE: PeerGuardian is NO LONGER updated since 2016. This tutorial only works in old Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to install the PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, 12.04 Precise using ppa repository.

PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origin seeds in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P.

PeerGuardian Linux is actively developed. However the team is very small and with few spare time. Contributors are welcome! Check out http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net.

A ppa repository has been created to make it easy to install for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow the below steps:

1.) Run this command in terminal to add the ppa repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jre-phoenix/ppa

2.) Update the package lists to make it available:

sudo apt-get update

3.) Finally instal it:

sudo apt-get install pgld pglcmd pglgui

Already installed LAMP or LEMP (Nginx with PHP, Mysql) on your Ubuntu Server? This time I’m going to show you how to install WordPress CMS.

WordPress is a popular blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It’s free and open-source.

To install WordPress, first login your Ubuntu Server as root, then follow the steps below:

1.) Create Mysql Database and User for WordPress.

- First log into Mysql as root user:
```
mysql -u root -p
```

Type in the root password to get past.

Create a database. Change database-name in code to whatever you want.
```
CREATE DATABASE database-name;
```
Create an user. Change database-user in code to whatever you want.
```
CREATE USER database-user@localhost;
```
Give a password to the user just created. Change password-here in code.
```
SET PASSWORD FOR database-user@localhost= PASSWORD("password-here");
```

Grant all privileges to the new user.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database-name.* TO database-user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password-here';

f.) Finally, refresh Mysql:
```
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
```
g.) Exit Mysql sell
```
exit
```

2.) Download WordPress and setup the configuration.

Download the latest wordpress:

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Then extract:

tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

Copy the sample configuration file to make a backup.

cd wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Edit the configuration file:
```
vi wp-config.php
```
Press I to start editing, Esc to stop editing. Press :, then type wq to save and exit, type q! to exit without save.

Then change the section of database-name, database-user, password-here.

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database-name’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database-user’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password-here’);

3.) Setup the permissions.

sudo rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/
cd /var/www/
sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R 
sudo usermod -a -G www-data username

4.) Finally in your browser go to IP or domain/wp-admin/install.php and start installing.

Enjoy!

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