Install Tomcat And Deploy Web Applications With Rex

Install Tomcat And Deploy Web Applications With RexIn this tutorial I will show you how to manage your Tomcat installations and how to deploy Webapps in a repeatable way with Rex. In this tutorial I will use Debian Squeeze, but Rex is also available for other distributions. Introduction to RexRex is a tool, written in Perl, to ease the administration and deployment of many servers.From the Website: With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment.The starting point of a Rex project is its Rexfile. Re

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Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11

Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11

Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11Version 1.0Author: Christian Schmalfeld This tutorial is supposed to show useful terminal commands to people
who are new to Linux. 1 Preliminary NoteTerminal commands are powerful tools if they are used correctly, but
can cause great damage if you are not completely aware of what you are
doing. Before using commands that are new to you, look up the manual
page and make sure you have your files saved and backed up.This tutorial comes without guarantee of any kind. 2 Root UserOn Linux Mint there is only

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Installing WordPress With BitNami

Installing WordPress With BitNami

Installing Wordpress With BitNamiOption 1: Wordpress stack (Recommended)What is Wordpress Stack?BitNami Wordpress Stack is a free, self-contained, easy-to-install package that bundles every piece of software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for development or production purposes. It includes the latest version of Wordpress and is fully configured and ready-to-run.
You can download the latest version of BitNami Wordpress stack for Windows, Linux and OS X at http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress.Installing Wordpress StackRegardless of which operating system you are running (Windows / Linux /

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How To Migrate Joomla Content (Articles) Using phpMyAdmin

How To Migrate Joomla Content (Articles) Using phpMyAdmin

On this pageHow To Migrate Joomla Content (Articles) Using phpMyAdminHow to Export Article Content on the old Joomla 1.5 site?
How to import Article Content on the new Joomla 1.7 site?How To Migrate Joomla Content (Articles) Using phpMyAdmin
Joomla is a very popular Content Management System (CMS). This article applies to Joomla 1.5 content (Article) migration to Joomla 1.7 using phpMyAdmin database tool.How to Export Article Content on the old Joomla 1.5 site?Login to phpMyAdmin database tool on the old site. (Database account settings can be found on Joomla configuration.php file.)
Select th

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MySQL – mysqldump: Got error: 1016: Can’t open file: ‘./exampledb/xxx.frm’ (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES

This article will show you how to solve the following problem:Error: MySQL – mysqldump: Got error: 1016: Cant open file: ./exampledb/xxx.frm (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLESThis issue can happen when you try to create a MySQL database dump with the mysqldump command on Linux:mysqldump -u root -pmysecretpassword –opt exampledb > exampledb.sql[email protected]:/tmp/mysql# mysqldump -u root -pmysecretpassword –opt exampledb > exampledb.sqlmysqldump: Got error: 1016: Cant open file: ./exampledb/xxx.frm (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES[email protected]:/tmp/mysql# Solution for the mysqldum er

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Internet & LAN Over VPN Using OpenVPN – Linux Server – Windows/Linux Clients – Works For Gaming & Through Firewalls

Internet & LAN Over VPN Using OpenVPN – Linux Server – Windows/Linux Clients – Works For Gaming & Through FirewallsThe aim of this tutorial is to enable you to set up a little VPN
that will let you do many things – but my primary goal when trying to
get this to work was to allow me and my friend (who sits behind a
firewalled network at University) to play the new games that would not
work over Hamachi because they did not ship with LAN and required an
always-on internet connection (DRM). His network also uses traffic
shaping and blocks UDP packets, making online gaming impossible.This tutorial

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Continuous Deployment With Jenkins And Rex

Continuous Deployment With Jenkins And Rex

Continuous Deployment With Jenkins And RexIn this tutorial I will show you how to do continuous deployment with jenkins
as a ci tool and Rex as a deployment tool. Together, we will set up Jenkins,
the build and test process, a Subversion repository and our example Perl App.This tutorial can be used with Java-, PHP-, Rails-, … projects as well. But
for simplicity I’ve chosen Perl.This howto focuses on Ubuntu LTS 11.04 but it can also be done with other Linux
Distributions. For Jenkins you just need a Java Environment and for Rex you just
need Perl 5.8 (i recommend >=5.10) and some Perl Module

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Installing Verax NMS On SuSE, RedHat, And Debian

Installing Verax NMS On SuSE, RedHat, And DebianRequirementsThe Verax NMS can be installed on 32 and 64 bit Linux distributions
including: SuSE, RedHat Enterprise and Debian using i386 and x64
architectures. It can be also installed in any operating environment supporting Java
1.6 or higher (AS/400, FreeBSD and others).Before the installation you should check:The amount of available disk space on the installation
drive (It needs about 650 MB of disk space to install and 2 GB of RAM
to run).Availability of target TCP port on the server (typically 80
or other if non-default setting is to be used

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How To Monitor And Manage Apache Tomcat

How To Monitor And Manage Apache Tomcat

How To Monitor And Manage Apache TomcatThis guide provides an overview on how to monitor and manage
Apache Tomcat application server. The guide is divided into following steps:
Adding Apache Tomcat to the list of monitored applications.Configuring availability sensors and performance counters
for Apache Tomcat.Tomcat plugin overview.Setting up alarms and notification policies.Tools used in this guide:
Apache Tomcat: http://tomcat.apache.org/Free monitoring tool (Verax NMS express): http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/nms Adding Apache Tomcat To
Device InventoryIn order to include Apache To

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Moving Files Between Linux Systems With SCP

Moving Files Between Linux Systems With SCPVersion 1.0Author: Christian Schmalfeld  This article is about how to move files between servers using the scp (secure copy) command. To show how it works, I will move files from my HDD to a virtual machine running on VirtualBox. There is Linux Mint 11 installed on both drives.This tutorial comes without warranty of any kind. I do not guarantee that this will work for you. 1 Preliminary NoteUsing scp you can not only move files to and between virtual
machines like I will do, but move them to any server on

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