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• How to Monitor Nginx using Netdata on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, monitoring, nginx, server, ubuntu • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 21, 2017

  Netdata is an open source monitoring tool for Linux servers. In this tutorial, I will show you how to monitor Nginx using Netdata. The tutorial will cover the Nginx web server installation, enable the 'stub_status' module in Nginx and the Netdata installation on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus.

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• How to Set-Up Master-Slave Replication for PostgreSQL 9.6 on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: high-availability, linux, ubuntu • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 20, 2017

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure PostgreSQL 9.6 Master-Slave Replication on Ubuntu 16.04 server. We will use Hot standby mode, and it's a very good starting point to learn PostgreSQL in depth.

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• Linux dirname command explained for beginners (4 examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 3 • Published: Jul 20, 2017

  Are you a new Linux user? Does your work involve shell scripting? If your answer to both these questions is yes, the tool we'll be discussing here will likely interest you. The name of the tool is dirname, and it's mostly used in situations where-in you need to strip the last component from an absolute file-name.

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• How to Install and Configure Drupal with Apache on Debian 9

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: debian, linux, server, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 19, 2017

  Drupal is a free and open source content management system that can be used to create online content, website and user communities. It is written in PHP language, uses MySQL as a database backends and distributes under the GNU General Public License. In this article, we will demonstrate how to install Drupal 8 on Debian 9 server.

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• How to install and use Volatility memory forensic tool

  Author: Ahmad • Tags: linux, security, ubuntu • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 18, 2017

  One of the important parts of Malware analysis is Random Access Memory (RAM) analysis. It helps to identify the running malicious processes, network activities, open connections etc in the compromised system. This article is about the open source security tool "Volatility" for volatile memory analysis. It can be used for both 32/64 bit systems RAM analysis and it supports analysis of Windows, Linux, Mac & Android systems.

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• Linux df Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Jul 18, 2017

  Sometimes, you might want to know how much space is consumed (and how much is free) on a particular file system on your Linux machine. There a specific command - dubbed df - that does this for you. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command, as well as some of the major features it offers.

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• How to Install ProcessWire CMS on CentOS 7

  Author: Liptan Biswas • Tags: centos, linux, server, web server • Comments: 1 • Published: Jul 17, 2017

  ProcessWire is free and open source content management system. It provides an easy to use flexible platform which is fully customizable. It provides a simpler and stronger control over your pages, fields, templates, and markup at any scale. In this tutorial, we will install ProcessWire on CentOS 7 server.

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• How to Setup Magento 2 With Varnish and Apache on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: linux, server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 14, 2017

  Magento is a free and open source Content Management System built in PHP, Zend framework and MySQL database. It is very popular eCommerce web application. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Magento 2 with Varnish as a full page cache on Ubuntu 16.04 server.

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• How to Install HTTP Git Server With Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: linux, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 13, 2017

  Git is a free and open source version control system that can be used to track changes of code. Git allows you to create many repositories for the same application and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for source code management in software development.

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• The Perfect Server - Debian 9 (Stretch) with Apache, BIND, Dovecot, PureFTPD and ISPConfig 3.1

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: apache, control panels, debian, ispconfig, web server • Comments: 43 • Updated: Jul 12, 2017

  This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian 9 server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3.1. The web hosting control panel ISPConfig 3 allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

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