Articles by Muhammad Arul
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Perform Hot Backups of MySQL Databases with Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: backup, linux, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 4
Percona XtraBackup is an open source backup utility for MySQL. It supports all MySQL flavours like Percona Server, MariaDB, and (Oracle) MySQL. Percona Xtrabackup performs a Hot Backup for MySQL. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a hot MySQL database backup with the OpenSource tool Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
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How to Install Nagios Server Monitoring on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, monitoring, networking, server, ubuntu • Comments: 37
Nagios is an open source software for system and network monitoring. Nagios can monitor the activity of a host and its services, and provides a warning/alert if something bad happens on the server. Nagios can run on Linux operating systems. At this time I will use Ubuntu 16.04 for the installation.
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How to Install Drupal 8.1 with Nginx, PHP-FPM and SSL on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, mysql, nginx, php, server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 15
Drupal is a well-known open source content management system based on PHP. It is available free of charge and released under the GNU General Public License. In this tutorial, we will install Drupal 8.1 with Nginx web server, MariaDB as the database server and PHP-FPM to handle PHP requests. I will also show you how to install an SSL Certificate to secure the Drupal website.
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How to Install Redmine 3.2 with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, nginx, ubuntu • Comments: 26
Redmine is an open source project management and issue tracking tool based on the Ruby on Rails Framework. This tutorial covers the Redmine 3 installation with Nginx as the web server and MySQL as the database on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) operating system.
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How to Install Magento with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, server, ubuntu • Comments: 11
Magento is an open source e-commerce software and content management system for e-commerce websites based on the PHP Zend Framework. It uses MySQL or MariaDB as database backend. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Magento 2 with Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB as the database. I will use ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) as server operating system.
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Server Monitoring with Shinken on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, monitoring, ubuntu • Comments: 3
Shinken is an open source computer and network monitoring framework written in python and compatible with Nagios. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Shinken from source and how to add a Linux host to the monitoring system. I will use Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus as the operating system for the Shinken server and monitored host.
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How to Install Ghost Blog Software with Apache and SSL on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 5
Ghost is a powerful Open Source publishing and blog platform that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Ghost is written in javascript and uses node.js as runtime environment. This tutorial shows the installation of the Ghost Blog software with Apache and SSL on Ubuntu 16.04.
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How to Install nginx and google PageSpeed on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, nginx, server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 4
This tutorial shows how to build a nginx .deb package for Ubuntu 16.04 from source that has Google PageSpeed module compiled in. Nginx (engine-x) is an open source and high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The outstanding features of Nginx are stability, rich feature set, simple configuration and low resource consumption. Nginx is being used by some of the largest websites on the internet and is gaining more and more popularity in the webmaster community.
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How to install Odoo ERP Software on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, nginx, server, ubuntu • Comments: 21
Odoo is an OpenSource enterprise resource planning and customer relationship software that can help you to organize and grow your business. Odoo was formerly named openERP and therefore TinyERP. There are many apps available to extend Odoo, for example: billing, accounting, manufacturing, purchasing, warehouse management, and project management.
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How to Install Seafile on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, server, ubuntu • Comments: 15
This tutorial shows the installation of Seafile on Ubuntu 16.04. Seafile is a private cloud software, it supports encrypted file libraries to store data securely. To encrypt files in a library, you need to set a password when you create the library. The password won't be stored on Seafile cloud, so even the administrator of the servers cannot view your encrypted data without the password.