by Richard W | Oct 2, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
This brief tutorial shows you how to install Joomla CMS on CentOS 7 with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB & PHP) support. Joomla is a free content management system (CMS) which allows millions of users and webmasters to publish beautiful and power webpages online....
by Richard W | Oct 1, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Since we’re all humans and we do forget at times, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to reset or recovery a forgotten users or root password on Ubuntu 14.04. We wrote the same tutorial for CentOS 7 users which was well received so we decided to write...
by Richard W | Sep 30, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web
Last week we showed you how to install and configure phpMyAdmin on CentOS 7. This post is going to show you how to do the same configuration on Ubuntu 14.04 and manage your MySQL databases via your web browsers. In our previous post, we said that MySQL databases can...
by Richard W | Sep 26, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Recently I was looking for a solution to remove or hide the website URL field on my comment form. By default, WordPress is shipped with a comment form with a name, email address and website fields. This has been the standard since the creation of WordPress CMS....
by Richard W | Sep 25, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
There are many ways to access and manage databases. There are dedicated database applications that allow you to manipulate databases as well as manage access to them. Another method is to directly connecting to the database server and running SQL statements using...
by Richard W | Sep 24, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Sometimes you forget stuff. I do. I forget important passwords for important websites sometimes. Retrieving your forgotten passwords for most websites is easy, all one has to do remember few details that were used when signing up for the service to get a password...
by Richard W | Sep 23, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
Few weeks ago we showed you how to install VSFTPD in Ubuntu. We also said because FTP implemented in its standard form is inherently insecure, it’s recommended to enable FTP over SSL/TLS encryption or secure FTP (SFTP). This brief tutorial is going to show you...
by Richard W | Sep 22, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
It seems like HTTPS is the future now that Google is recommending that all websites be encrypted with SSL over HTTP. If you haven’t heard, Google announced that websites and webpages that are encrypted will rank higher than those that are not when people search...
by Richard W | Sep 22, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are three top content management systems that power most websites online today. These three depend on the LAMP stack which includes Linux, Apache2, MySQL or MariaDB and PHP. We’ve written about installing both WordPress and Drupal on...
by Richard W | Sep 19, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to install mCrypt PHP extension in CentOS 7. For some reasons this PHP extension isn’t available from CentOS 7 default repositories. You may be able to install other PHP extensions right out of the box after...
