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 Tune Apache Subversion For MS Windows

How To Tune Apache Subversion For MS WindowsThe use of Apache on Windows amongst our enterprise customers is rare, with the majority opting to host the Subversion Apache servers on one of the flavours of Linux.In the cases where Windows is the Subversion Apache server’s operating system, it is common that Administrators are plagued with overly high memory consumption by the Apache httpd process, leading in extreme cases to the Apache server shutting down.All subversion binaries for Windows only provide 32-bit versions of Apache. Apache on Windows is run as a single process, with child threads

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How To Configure A pfSense 2.0 Cluster Using CARP

How To Configure A pfSense 2.0 Cluster Using CARP

How To Configure A pfSense 2.0 Cluster Using CARPIn this HowTo I will show you how to configure a pfSense 2.0 Cluster using CARP Failover. pfSense is quite a advanced (open-source) firewall being used everywhere from homes to enterprise level networks, I have been playing around with pfsense now for the last 3 months and to be honest I am not looking back, it is packed full of features and can be deployed easily within minutes depending on your requirements. RequirementsYou will need two identical computers, with 3 network cards minimum (if these firewalls are going to be on EDGE (front-line f

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How To Make Your Own (Almost) Chromebook

How To Make Your Own (Almost) Chromebookversion 1.0: Aaron Grothe  This HowTo lays out how to convert a regular netbook/laptop/desktop into an almost Google Chromebook using Hexxeh’s Chromium OS build. All you need is a 2GB USB stick and a bit of time. It also makes a nice portable operating system as well. Why Make A Near Chromebook?The following are a couple of good reasons to make a near Chromebook:It is a great way to repurpose an old netbook, laptop or desktop.It shows the potential of a total browser environment, everything is
accessed from the web.It is a

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How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console

How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console

How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management ConsoleThis guide provides an overview on how to monitor and manage
IPMI Management Console with Verax NMS. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a standardized computer system interface used by system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation. The guide is divided into following parts:Adding IPMI Management Console  to the list of
monitored applications.Configuring availability sensors and performance counters
for IPMI Console.System’s IPMI Management Console overview.Setting up alarms and notification poli

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The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9

The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and
creating your first test database; also we show you how to install
Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 9 on a kvm-linux virtual machine.
Download a compressed snapshot of the Ports Collection into /var/db/portsnap.# portsnap fetchOr update it.
If you are running Portsnap for the first time, extract the snapshot into /usr/ports:# portsnap extractIf you already have a populated /usr/ports directory and you ar

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Extending Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3]

Extending Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3]Version 1.0Author: Thomas (http://iopen.gr)Last edited 2012-02-05 (05 February 2012)The following tutorial will extend the “Perfect Server…. ” for ISPConfig 3 with BIND & Courier installed in Debian Squeeze. It explains how to change default ports (ssh, ispconfig, webmin), how to install some useful applications (webmin, roundcube, atop, htop, multitail, tiger etc), how to update awstats periodically (more than once a day) or whenever you want, how to create clients’ data backups (periodically) accessible under their folder and finally i

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pfSense – Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial

pfSense – Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial

pfSense – Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping TutorialIn this tutorial I will show you how to set up pfSense 2.0.1 up as an Internet Gateway with Squid Proxy / Squidguard Filtering. I will also show that you have to configure some extra features of pfSense like traffic shapping with squid. This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe’s etc. RequirementsThis tutorial assumes that you already have a pfsense (version 2.0.1 Minimum) installation running with your network interfaces configured and basic firewall rules configured. Ins

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The Perfect Push Mail Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With ISPConfig 3 & Z-push

The Perfect Push Mail Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With ISPConfig 3 & Z-pushVersion 1.0Author: ZicguyThis tutorial describes the installation and configuration of Z-push on a Debian Squeeze server with ISPConfig 3.
Z-push is an open-source application to synchronize ActiveSync compatible PDAs and mobile phones.
Z-Push was initially developed by Zarafa Deutschland GmbH (Germany).
At the end of this tutorial, your customers should be able to sync their mobile phones, by using push technology, with their e-mail accounts stored on your server.I do not issue any guarantee that this will wor

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Configure Monit To Send SMS Instead Of Email

Configure Monit To Send SMS Instead Of EmailThis tutorial helps you configure monitto send alert messages using SMS to your mobile phone when a service fails instead of traditional email notification. Because monit can send only emails but not SMS,
we will use an email-to-sms gateway where monit will send its emails to, and the email-to-sms gateway will convert the emails to SMS messages. Why monit with SMS?First obvious reason is  that you will not need physical presence or access to your email account in order to get notified about the problem with some server process.
On another hand, imagi

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