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• How to Setup Zammad Ticketing System on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 8

  Zammad is an open source helpdesk/customer support system written in Ruby. It's a web-based ticketing system with many features, including support to manage customer communication over several channels like Facebook, telegram, chat, and emails. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Zammad Ticketing System using Nginx web server and PostgreSQL for the database system.

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• Install Debian 9 (Stretch) via PXE Network Boot Server

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux • Comments: 3

  In this tutorial, we’ll guide you on how to install the latest version of Debian 9 server via a PXE server with internet remote HTTP mirror sources offered by Debian archive mirrors. The DHCP server that we’ll use in this tutorial to setup PXE environment will be ISC-DHCP Server and the netboot Debian files will be served on the local network by TFTPD-HPA server.

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• How to Install VisualEditor for MediaWiki on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux • Comments: 5

  In this tutorial, I will show you how to step-by-step install and configure VisualEditor for latest MediaWiki version 1.30. VisualEditor is a rich-text editor for MediaWiki. It's available as an extension and relies on the Parsoid parser service to be up and running for editing MediaWiki pages.

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• How to Install PrestaShop on Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: apache, debian, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 4

  In this guide, we’ll show you how to install and configure the latest version of Prestashop on Debian 9.1. Prestashop is a free Open Source e-commerce content management platform written in PHP programming language which is often deployed on Linux under Apache/Nginx web servers, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB database management system.

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• How to Install Varnish Cache with Apache on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: apache, centos, debian • Comments: 1

  Varnish is a proxy server focused on HTTP caching. It's designed as an HTTP accelerator and can act as reverse proxy for your web server Apache or Nginx. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure varnish HTTP accelerator as a reverse proxy for Apache web server.

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• How to Install Joomla with Apache on Debian 9 (Stretch)

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: apache, debian, linux, server, web server • Comments: 15

  Joomla is one of the most popular and widely supported open source content management system (CMS) platform in the world that can be used to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets and mobile applications. Thie tutorial describes the installation of Joomla with Apache web server and MariaDB on Debian 9.

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• How to Install Nagios 4.3.x Monitoring Tool on Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux, monitoring • Comments: 18

  This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the latest version of Nagios Core, currently 4.3.4, from sources in Debian 9.1, codename Stretch. Nagios, also known as Nagios Core, is a free Open Source network monitoring tool actively maintained by its developers, designed to monitor an entire network infrastructure.

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• How to Install Discourse Forum with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, server, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0

  Discourse is a free and open source software for creating Internet forum community and mailing list. Discourse forum software has been used by many organizations, including Codeacademy, Udacity, Twitter Developers, and Docker Community Forum. In this tutorial, we will show you step-by-step how to install and configure Discourse Forum with Nginx web server on Ubuntu 16.04.

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• How to Install MediaWiki with Nginx on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux • Comments: 4

  MediaWiki is a popular wiki software that was originally developed for use on Wikipedia. It's a free and open source wiki software written in the PHP programming language. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to step-by-step install MediaWiki with Nginx web server on CentOS 7.

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• Install Nginx, MariaDB and PHP (FEMP stack) on FreeBSD 11

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: freebsd, mysql, nginx, php • Comments: 0

  In this tutorial, I will describe the process of installing and configuring the FEMP stack on FreeBSD 11.x. FEMP software stack is an acronym for FreeBSD - Nginx - MySQL (or MariaDB) and PHP.

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