How to Install Rocket.Chat Server with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, I will show you how to build your own chat server using Rocket.Chat. I will use the latest Ubuntu LTS 16.04 server for the installation and Nginx as reverse proxy for the Rocket.Chat...
View ArticleHow to Install and Configure Apache Tomcat 8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure Apache Tomcat 8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Yakkety Yak) and how to install and configure the prerequisite Java 8 on the Ubuntu server. Apache...
View ArticleHow to Install Mattermost with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, I will guide you to create your own Mattermost server that uses PostgreSQL as the database system and Nginx as the reverse proxy for Mattermost. I will use ubuntu 16.04 as the...
View ArticleHow to Install Linux Malware Detect (LMD) and ClamAV on CentOS 7
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Linux Malware Detect (LMD) with Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV). I will use CentOS 7 as the operating system.
View ArticleHow to replace GRUB with BURG Boot Loader on Ubuntu 16.04
GNU GRUB has been the number one choice among the available system bootloaders for many years now, so replacing such a trusty piece of software for something else isn’t exactly common among Linux...
View ArticleHow to Install Django with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the Django web framework and configure it to use a PostgreSQL database for development. We will run Nginx as a reverse proxy for Django web framework...
View ArticleHow to share files locally by using NitroShare
NitroShare is a cross-platform file transfer application that can help Linux users move files from one device to another as long as it is installed in all of them. While there are many ways to do this,...
View ArticleHow to design and add your own font on Linux with Glyphr
LibreOffice already offers a galore of fonts, and users can always download and add more. However, if you want to create your own custom font, you can do it easily by using Glyphr. Glyphr is a new open...
View ArticleHow to split a large archive file into multiple small files using Split...
Although one of the primary reasons behind creating archives is the ease of handling and transfer, sometimes the compressed file itself is so large that it becomes a nightmare to transfer it over...
View ArticleHow to deploy a fault tolerant cluster with continuous or high availability
Some companies cannot allow having their services down. In case of a server outage a cellular operator might experience billing system downtime causing lost connection for all its clients. Admittance...
View ArticleHow to Install Seafile with Nginx on CentOS 7
Seafile is a private cloud software to that provides similar features like Dropbox, mega.co.nz, and others, just hosted on your own server. Seafile is based on the python programming language and it is...
View ArticleUsing drush for Drupal site Backup/Restore and Migration
'Drush', or the "Drupal Shell," is one of the Drupal administrator’s best friends. Its many command line tools allow a user to log into a web server and perform routine tasks such as applying updates,...
View ArticleHow to monitor progress of Linux commands using PV and Progress utilities
Consider a scenario wherein you have just started copying a very large file from your pen drive to your Linux system through the command line. Given that the file in question is heavy, you know the...
View ArticleHow to practically use your Linux terminal (part 2)
Quite a while ago, we had published a post that showcased four examples of how Linux users can utilize their terminal to perform simple daily tasks and fulfill common everyday use needs. Of course, the...
View ArticleL2TP over IPsec using OpenSwan with Freeradius authentication on Ubuntu 16.04
This article is about the layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) with IPsec to provide end-to-end encryption in the layer 2 VPN. The open source implementations of IPsec are StrongSwan and OpenSwan, both...
View ArticleHow to use plugins (add-ons) in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors allows users to edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations offline by providing access to the web-based ONLYOFFICE portals for an efficient remote team...
View ArticleIntroduction to Tracktion 5 DAW on Linux
Tracktion is one of the most popular digital audio workstations and one of the very few that are available for the Linux platform along with the magnificent Ardour. While Tracktion is distributed under...
View ArticleHow to install and use profiling tool Gprof
If you are a programmer, who writes code in C, Pascal, or Fortran77 programming language and uses Linux as the development platform, you'll be glad to know that there exists a powerful tool through...
View ArticleWhat's new in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) - an overview
The Ubuntu 16.10 operating system was released last month. The new version, which is also called Yakkety Yak, came around six months after Canonical - the company behind Ubuntu - released version 16.04...
View ArticleHow to Install and Configure MongoDB on CentOS 7
MongoDB is a NoSQL database that provides high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling. In this tutorial, I will guide you to install and configure MongoDB 3.2 (stable) on a CentOS 7...
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