Quick tip for Users Hosting TurnKey Linux Images for Public Consumption
I host lots of internal infrastructure for friends, colleagues, the Open Source community, my LUG and others and much of the recent need I’ve seen has been with easy-to-contain images like those provided by the TurnKey Linux project.
These are very small, light, lean VMs and app containers you can deploy on your servers, baremetal, VHW or other environments such as Hyper-V, VMware, VirtualBox and more.
But they tend to advertise a bit too much inside each application they host, and for some people/clients, that’s not desirable. But there’s a quick and easy fix!
If your app, like Moodle for example, has a web interface, you’ll see a footer that advertises TurnKey Linux and will look like this:
The easy way to remove this, is to SSH into your TurnKey Linux image (you did change that SSH port to something other than port 22, right?), and run the following commands:
$ sudo a2dismod substitute Module substitute disabled. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 restart $ sudo service apache2 restart [....] Restarting web server: apache2apache2: ... waiting apache2: ok
Once you’ve disabled the “substitute” apache module with a2dismod and restarted, you should now see something that looks like this:
If you want to modify that footer so it refers to something unique to your group, team, organization or otherwise, just re-enable the module as follows:
$ sudo a2enmod substitute Enabling module substitute. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 restart
Now you’ll need to edit a small configuration file with a text editor before restarting Apache to make it visible. That file is “/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/substitute.conf”. Make your changes there, save and restart Apache as follows:
$ sudo service apache2 restart [....] Restarting web server: apache2apache2: ... waiting apache2: ok
That’s it, you’re done!