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How to Install Graylog2 and Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 15.10
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 13 In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the Graylog2, Elasticsearch and MongoDB installation to build a scalable log server node with advanced log search capabilities. I will use Ubuntu 15.10 for this installation. Elasticsearch is a distributed search server based on Lucene that is available as OpenSource software. Graylog2 is a centralized log management and log analysis framework based on Elasticsearch and MongoDB.
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Thoughts on intermediate compatibile SSL with Let's Encrypt certificates
Author: Patrik Habdak •
Tags: linux, security •
Comments: 2 Many people have decided to implement Let's Encrypt into their production sites. I find this still a very bad idea to be done without being very (but really very) careful. Let's Encrypt brings you freedom but also limits you in using the certificate with SHA-256 RSA Encryption. Support for SHA-256 has improved over the last few years. Most browsers, platforms, mail clients and mobile devices already support SHA-256. However, some older operating systems such as Windows XP pre-SP3 do not support SHA-256 encryption. Many organizations will be able to convert to SHA-256 without running into user experience issues, and many may want to encourage users running older, less secure systems to upgrade. In this tutorial, we are going to deal with this incompatibility in a simple, but still nasty way.
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Microsoft Azure Series - Creating a Linux virtual machine from template
Author: Patrik Habdak •
Tags: linux, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This tutorial shows you how to create and run a Ubuntu 15.10 virtual machine instance in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Microsoft Azure Cloud computing is a service made by Microsoft for companies and also end-users who’d like to jump into cloud environment quickly and effectively. Azure offers you many services not only virtual machines. There is also networking services, application services, websites, databases, mobile applications and many more.
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SSL Certificates For PostgreSQL
Author: thebrain.ca •
Tags: linux, other, security •
Comments: 14 SSL Certificates For PostgreSQL This describes how to set up ssl certificates to enable encrypted connections from PgAdmin on some client machine to postgresql on a server machine. The assumption is that postgresql (compiled with ssl support) and openssl are already installed and functional on the server (Linux). PgAdmin is already installed on the client (either Windows or Linux).
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How to install and configure vsftpd with TLS on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: debian, ftp, security •
Comments: 8 This article explains how to set up a TLS enabled vsftpd server on a Debian 8 server. FTP is a very insecure protocol by default because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure.
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How to Encrypt your Data with EncFS on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: debian, security •
Comments: 4 EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Jessie to encrypt your data.
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How to Install Drupal 8 with Apache, MySQL and SSL on Ubuntu 15.10
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: apache, linux, php, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 23 In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Drupal 8 on Ubuntu 15.10 with Apache as web server, MySQL as database backend and how to secure the website with SSL. Drupal is a open-source content management system based on PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal is a scalable and open platform for web content management, it's community provides more than 31,000 modules to extend the core functions and Drupal is used by at least 2.1% of all website on the internet.
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How to Install OpenCart 2 with Nginx and SSL on Ubuntu 15.10
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, nginx, server, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 This tutorial covers the OpenCart installation with Nginx, PHP-fpm and MariaDB on Ubuntu 15.10. OpenCart is free open source e-commerce software based on PHP and MySQL. OpenCart allows you to setup and run your own online store at a minimal cost. The software is suitable for a small and medium online businesses, it is easy to install and there are many add-ons and extensions available. OpenCart comes with translations for numerous languages and supports multiple currencies.
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How to set up and use Nylas N1 Email Client on Linux
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, email, linux •
Comments: 21 Nylas N1 is a new open source email client that boasts great levels of flexibility, configuration and expandability. This San Fransisco-made software was built with a strong focus on security, intuitive interface design, and support for all popular platforms.
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Postfix Monitoring with Mailgraph on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: monitoring, postfix, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mail server with Mailgraph. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new in the ISPConfig perfect server tutorials). These graphs can be accessed with a browser.
