by Richard W | Jun 4, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
LAMP is a reference to open source most frequently used software related to web services. The L in LAMP stands for Linux, A for Apache2 Web Server, M for MySQL or MariaDB database server and the P for PHP web service scripts. Combining and installing these allows...
by Richard W | May 26, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Web
Today Nginx version 1.9.1 was released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to install or upgrade to it in Ubuntu/CentOS 7. Nginx is a great web server and is being used by millions of webmasters across the Internet to manage and power their websites or...
by Richard W | Feb 20, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This document describes how to perform an LTS release upgrade in Ubuntu. There are many upgrade methods one can perform using Ubuntu. One can upgrade packages using sudo dist-upgrade and sudo apt-get update commands. Running the above two commands only upgrade...
by Richard W | Feb 11, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
This document shows you how to install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 14.10 and run your own wiki site. MediaWiki is free opensource software written in PHP that was original intended for Wikipedia. It now runs on many other non-profit and wiki sites across the Internet. If you...
by Richard W | Feb 5, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
This document shows you how to install bbPress on Ubuntu 14.10 server. bbPress is a forum software that can be used to power your forum-only sites or integrated with WordPress and other CMS to enable forums and discussion platform. It’s a great software to have...
by Richard W | Feb 3, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security
This document shows you how to install and configure secure ProFTPD server on Ubuntu 14.10. ProFTPD is a free FTP server that allows you to upload/download and share content via FTP protocol. FTP protocol is inherently insecure. Without encrypting the network traffic...