Nginx (pronounced as Engine-x) is a high performance web server,reverse proxy, mail proxy server which was originally written by Igor Sysoev in 2005. Here we discuss about setting up a very basic Installing Nginx web server on your Linux server , capable of parsing php pages. Installing Nginx on your Linux server Installing nginx on […]
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Today, i was working with a web-based mod_perl application running on an old rhel 2.1 (panama) server, with apache v1.3.33 and mod_perl v1.29. The applctn had an option to upload images for the products displayed on the site. But the app lacked image resizing functionality. Some of the users had uploaded huge images and that
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GnuPG GnuPG is a free software for secure communication. GnuPG itself is a communication tool without any graphical support. GnuPG uses non-patent algorithms such as DSA,RSA, ElGamal and RSA,CAST5, Camellia, Triple DES, AES, Blowfish etc. Features Does not use any patented algorithms. GPLed, written from scratch. Supports key and signature expiration dates. Online help system.
There are four important steps we should follow when it comes to the transfer or migrate cPanel accounts among different server. Below a simple and brief description is given on how to perform migrate cPanel . Steps to transfer cPanel accounts Change the $TTL of the zone in old server Transfer the accounts. Update the
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10 points to increase troubleshooting skills and become a good Server Admin 1) Be clear with the concepts You will be learning lot of things in random in your day-to-day work, but essentially what you need to remember are the basic concepts of each technology you have come across, starting from basic commands, services associated,
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Introduction How to install and configure Bacula is a common question for us. Basically Bacula is an on-linebased back up tool. Which is used to backup files from different servers into back up server where the bacula is running. For setup this backup tool across network first you have to install bacula server package on
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Below we give a brief description of how to install and configure Nagios. To install Nagios make sure the following are installed and working properly in your machine * httpd * php * gcc * glibc * glibc-common * gd * gd-devel * png * png-devel * jpeg * jpeg-devel * zlib * zlib-devel Install
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Qmail is a wonderful MTA in all sense but its quite easy to have the troubles like your queue getting filled up and you don’t know how to flush the queue. I’ll give you some insights how to do that If you have already downloaded qmHandle you can remove the mails by issuing the command
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dig is a command line tips for querying DNS name servers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, name servers, and related information. Understanding the default output The most typical, simplest query is for a single host Command line tips. By default, however, dig is pretty verbose. You probably don’t need all the information in
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System Admin Tools:First of all lets learn how to find out what is chocking or gobbling up the server resource. You can get the memory usage by issuing the command “free -m” [bash] root@spark [~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4051 3052 999 0 249 1294 -/+ buffers/cache: 1508 2543
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Sparksupport offers you the phpmotion install script to install phpmotion in your root folder or subfolder. Copy paste this script to a file name of your like and execute with the command sh filename. You should answer the questions asked during the execution of the script. Requirements: Cpanel Server Root access #!/bin/bash #Copyright @2009 SparkSupport
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I happen to see this uu_upload.pl download prompt error when installing phpmotion on a subfolder. This is because Apache doesn’t understand this perl file in cgi-bin. Here is a fix which worked for me Create a .htaccess file in cgi-bin of the subfolder and add the entry Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .pl This error can
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Hi Its common that video files are not getting converted into flv format for streaming. This can be caused due to deprecated option that is still used for mencoder in the scripts of phpmotion and clipshare. All you have to do is to replace the existing options with the latest one in the convertor.php file
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As you are aware nginx don’t read .htaccess rewrite rule nginx has its own rewrite rule. WordPress has already embraced nginx, wordpress.com works with nginx. There will be problems if you enable permalink option in wordpress nginx. Here is the workaround for it. You can find permalink option at Login as wordpress admin Click on
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startup-scripts-for-nginx that can be used for centos. Save the below code in a file named nginx in /etc/init.d/. Chmod its permission to 755. Also make sure that you give the correct path for your conf file in NGINX_CONF_FILE and of the nginx binary location. #!/bin/sh # # nginx – this script starts and stops the
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I decided to compile my own kernel 2.6 compile steps for my centos. Here are the steps I have followed and which worked without any errors. Goto kernel.org for the list of kernel source available http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ Download the one you like to the directory /usr/src If you are using wget and by chance you got
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We all seem to have questions regarding how to install clipshare First off download clipshare and unzip it. You will see installation.txt sql and upload folder after the extract. Now check if your system is suPHP or not. Create a test php file test.php and add the following code Now access this through the browser and if its showing your
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Exim commands BASIC COMMANDS Print a count of the messages in the queue: exim -bpc Print a listing of the messages in the queue (time queued, size, message-id, sender, recipient): exim -bp Print a summary of messages in the queue (count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and totals): exim -bp | exiqsumm Print what Exim is
Apache comes bundled with its own security wrapper application called suEXEC. SuExec is a security mechanism for wrapping dynamic content (SSI & CGI) – content displayed based on user input and scripts executed. Normally, when a CGI or SSI program executes, it runs as the same user who is running the web server. suEXEC allows
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PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) based on POSTGRES, Version 4.2, developed at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department. POSTGRES pioneered many concepts that only became available in some commercial database systems much later with PostgreSQL Command. PostgreSQL is an open-source descendant of this original Berkeley code. It supports a
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