Articles by Muhammad Arul
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How to Install and Configure Apache Tomcat 8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, server, ubuntu • Comments: 16
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure Apache Tomcat 8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Yakkety Yak) and how to install and configure the prerequisite Java 8 on the Ubuntu server. Apache Tomcat is an open source Java Servlet implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation.
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How to Install Rocket.Chat Server with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, server • Comments: 12
In this tutorial, I will show you how to build your own chat server using Rocket.Chat. I will use the latest Ubuntu LTS 16.04 server for the installation and Nginx as reverse proxy for the Rocket.Chat application. Rocket.Chat is a free and open source online chat solution for team communication, it allows you to build your own slack like online chat.
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How to install Wordpress with Nginx, MariaDB and HHVM on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, mysql, nginx, server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 10
This tutorial describes the steps to install WordPress with Nginx, MariaDB and HHVM on Ubuntu 16.04 Server. HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine) is a just-in-time compiler developed by Facebook to run applications that are written in PHP and Hack language. HHVM is faster than the traditional PHP engine from ZEND and is used by Facebook to serve billions of web requests per day.
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How to Install Ruby on Rails (RoR) with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, programming, server, ubuntu • Comments: 7
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I will show you how to install and configure Rails with a PostgreSQL database, and how to create a new first project with Rails. Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an open source web application framework, published under MIT License. Ruby on Rails, or rails is written in Ruby, it is a server-side web application framework that follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) concept.
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How to Install a MySQL Cluster on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 25
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install a 'MySQL Cluster' on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). MySQL Cluster is a technology to provide high availability for MySQL Databases. It uses NDB (Network DataBase) or NDBCLUSTER as the database storage engine. MySQL Cluster is designed as multi-master ACID architecture with no single point of failure, it uses automatic sharding (partitioning) to scale out read and write processes.
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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.