Linux Tutorials on the topic “Linux”
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The Perfect Server – CentOS 7.1 with Apache2, Postfix, Dovecot, Pure-FTPD, BIND and ISPConfig 3
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: antivirus, apache, bind, centos, control panels, dns, email, ftp, ispconfig, linux, mysql, php, postfix, web server • Comments: 41
This tutorial shows how to install ISPConfig 3 on a CentOS 7.1 (64Bit) server. ISPConfig 3 is a web hosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more.
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How to monitor OpenVZ limits with vzwatchd on Debian and Ubuntu
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: debian, linux, monitoring, ubuntu • Comments: 2
Vzwatchd is an OpenVZ monitoring daemon that informs the server administrator by email when a limit of the container is reached. OpenVZ is a Linux Kernel virtualisation technology that is often used by Web Hosting services, it is the free core of the commercial virtuozzo virtualisation application. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualisation which has less overhead then KVM or XEN, it is more like a Linux LXC jail but with advanced limit options to define how many ressources a virtual machine may use and it has support for filesystem quota.
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Wordpress: An Installation Guide for Ubuntu Linux (LAMP) and Windows (WAMP)
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: linux, ubuntu • Comments: 6
Wordpress is a free and open source blogging tool and CMS used by millions of people in the world. Its simplicity, power and flexibility places it as a top choice for people to use and developers to recommend. It has come a long way from its release in May, 2013. It consists of tons of themes, plugins and features that help the user to obtain speed, security and reliability.
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Using Putty to remotely open GUI applications
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: linux, debian, desktop • Comments: 10
Remote connections can be established with system over a network through SSH (secure shell) easily, we can login, perform actions or send commands to another system remotely trough this conection on the commandline. But what we cannot do is launch a GUI application for viewing content present in the remote node. This is the disadvantage of using ssh in a terminal. But this disadvantage can be easily solved by making use of "putty", a remote login application which can not only be used to login to a remote node, but also launch GUI applications. Examples of GUI applications are Browser, text viewers, etc.
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Getting started with commandline encryption tools on Linux
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: linux, debian, ubuntu, centos, opensuse, security • Comments: 2
Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read them. With almost no privacy in this digital generation of our's, encryption of our data is one of the most required tools. Most of the applications like gmail encrypt our data, but the data on your system is still unsecured and there are hackers or unauthorised users waiting to access them. One way to minimize the risk of data theft is to encrypt the data that is present even on our local system. This tutorial demonstrates several methods of encrypting the data on Linux systems using commandline tools.
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How To Install a CentOS 7.1 Minimal Server
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: centos, linux • Comments: 0
This document describes the basic installation of a CentOS 7.1 server. The purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal setup that can be used as basis for all kind of CentOS server setups.
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How to Install ONLYOFFICE on RedHat Linux (RHEL) and CentOS
Author: Daria • Tags: linux, centos, desktop • Comments: 2
ONLYOFFICE is a free, open source software that enables teams to manage projects, customer relations and documents in one place. Though Ubuntu is the most well-known Linux distribution, we don't want other distributions users to feel left out in the cold. This guide will show what steps to take to install ONLYOFFICE collaborative system on Red Hat/CentOS.
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How to install and use Waartaa IRC client as a local standalone application
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu • Comments: 2
Waartaa is an open source communication and collaboration tool. It is an IRC client focussed to overcome the subtle disadvantages of existing clients. It is a web based IRC client as a service, facilitating some extremely useful services such as: centralised logging, unique Identity, global access, notifications, responsiveness to devices and displays across multiple clients.
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Installing Network Simulator 2 (NS2) on Ubuntu 14.04
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: linux, ubuntu, networking • Comments: 65
Network simulators are tools used to simulate discrete events in a network and which helps to predict the behaviours of a computer network. Generally the simulated networks have entities like links, switches, hubs, applications, etc. Once the simulation model is complete, it is executed to analyse the performance. Administrators can then customize the simulator to suit their needs. Network simulators typically come with support for the most popular protocols and networks in use today, such as WLAN,UDP,TCP,IP, WAN, etc.
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Web Server Load-Balancing with HAProxy on Ubuntu 14.04
Author: Sanchit Jain Rasiya • Tags: linux, ubuntu, server • Comments: 17
HAProxy(High Availability Proxy) is an open-source load-balancer which can load balance any TCP service. HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution that offers load-balancing, high-availability, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly well suited for very high traffic web sites and powers many of the world's most visited ones.