Introduction Nginx is a free and open-source, high performance web server software popular for its stability, simplicity in configuration and low resource consumption. Being a popular web server, many high traffic sites have been hosted using it. When compared to Apache, its considered to be more resource friendly. This tutorial will guide you to…
Introduction PHP mail() function is used to create and send emails. The function accepts a number of parameters for assigning the actual values to the various fields of email. The sendmail_path configuration directive has programs which will be used to send emails. Most of the Linux distributions will have sendmail pre-installed. But the set…
Introduction WPScan stands for wordpress security scanner. It is written in ruby language and it is a free software used to locate any vulnerable plugins and themes in your wordpress site that makes it vulnerable to attacks. Recently, there has been a tremendous increase in the security issues found among plugins and themes for…
Introduction LEMP is an open source software configuration used in web server and it stands for Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP. This tutorial describes how to install LEMP stack on CentOS 6. The only difference between LAMP and LEMP stack is the web server in which the stack runs. Since the server is already…
Introduction WordPress is a free and open source Content Management System, built on PHP and MySQL. It provides over 30,000 plugins for easy customization of appearance and functionality. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform, estimated to be running on 60 million sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. This…
Introduction Virtual Box is a powerful cross-platform virtualization software developed by Oracle. This tutorial will guide you in installation of VirtualBox on CentOS. Installation Run the following commands to install VirtualBox: yum -y groupinstall Desktop yum -y install qt qt-devel SDL-devel tigervnc-server gcc make kernel-devel export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64rpm -ivh http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.10/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.10_84104_el6-1.x86_64.rpm /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup …
Introduction Postfix is an open source Mail Transfer Agent that is used to route and deliver electronic email. It attempts to be fast, easy in administering and more secure. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Postfix on Ubuntu 14.04. Before we get down to install postfix, make sure you have a…
Introduction Postfix is an open source Mail Transfer Agent that is used to route and deliver electronic email. It attempts to be fast, easy in administering and more secure. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Postfix on Ubuntu 12.04. Before we get down to install postfix, make sure you have a…
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install GNOME and VNC on Fedora 19. Installation of GNOME Installation of GNOME desktop environment is quite simple. All you need to do is log into your droplet and run the command to install GUI and GNOME. You can either use SSH or console for logging…
Introduction In this tutorial you will learn how to install WordPress on Debian 7. WordPress is a free and open source Content Management System, built on PHP and MySQL. It provides over 30,000 plugins for easy customization of appearance and functionality. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform, estimated to be running on 60…