Introduction Aegir is huge hosting system for sites powered by Drupal many of which are based upon the Drush, Drupal (for Aegir core) and Drupal deployment tools.It becomes very easy to host, manage and deploy Drupal sites with Aegir. Upon deployment, a hosting system managed by web frontend possessing the capability of creating new sites or…
Introduction In case your school or workplace utilizes Microsoft Exchange for E-mail, then you may want access of your Exchange E-mail account from those E-mail clients who do not provide support to Exchange protocol. DavMail offers a solution byconverting Microsoft Exchange to open protocols like IMAP,POP, SMTP, Carddav, LDAP and Caldav. Installation A few additional dependencies…
Introduction Ruby on Rails,based upon Ruby, is a web framework that is open source. As it is quite easy to build and ship an application, it is a very popular option used by startups. Ruby needs to be installed in order to begin using Ruby on Rails. Although you are most likely to wind up…
Introduction An outstanding PHP engine, Elgg, can be utilized for operating your own well-developed social network. Great community support is provided through themes and plugins developed by user community and the official developers. Requirements Ubuntu 12.04 or Debian 7 Apache (with rewrite module) MySQL 5+ PHP 5.2+ (few modules are needed for supporting some features)…
Introduction A programming technology, Java, was developed originally by Sun Microsystems and was acquired by Oracle later. Oracle Java is Java’s proprietary implementation that can be downloaded freely and utilized for commercial purpose, but not to be redistributed, hence it doesn’t find inclusion in a repository that is maintained officially. Multiple reasons are there for…
About Virtualmin A Webmin module, Virtualmin permits comprehensive management of a number of virtual private servers. It enables you to manage Nginx,Apache, DNS, PHP, MySQL, mailboxes, PostgreSQL, FTP, Subversion/Git repositories, SSL, SSH and more. In this guide, the GPL (free) edition of Virtualmin will be deployed on a newly created VPS (droplet). Prerequisites Virtualmin advocates…
Introduction A web based open source control panel for Linux servers, Ajenti, provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for performing almost all the operations needed for configuring and maintaining your server. Ajenti has been designed for fulfilling the same purpose as Webmin and is quite similar to it except that it is comparatively simple and…
Introduction The command line is a robust tool that allows one to work easily and quickly under different circumstances, butmultiple examples are there where a visual interface proves to be of much help. If multiple different services are being configuredon a single machine, or portions of your system are being administered for clients, then ISPConfig like…
About cPanel cPanel is a useful application which aids users to manage servers via a GUI interface rather than through the conventional command line. Though cPanel installation is quite simple, the script takes a number of hours in running. Notes If installation of cPanel is done, then it is not possible to remove it from…
Introduction Vesta is a simple, open source and user-friendly web hosting control panel which presently supports RHEL (5 and 6), Ubuntu Linux (12.04 LTS, 13.04 and 13.10), CentOS (5 and 6), and Debian 7. By default, it possesses a number of features that permit you to host and control your websites easily on your VPS. 1.…