How to install and use 7zip file archiver on Ubuntu Linux
If you are a Microsoft Windows user, and your work involves sending/receiving large files over network, there's quite a possibility that you'd have at-least heard of (if not used) the 7zip tool. For...
View ArticleHow to Install Jenkins Automation Server with Apache on Ubuntu 16.04
Jenkins is an automation server forked from the Hudson project. Jenkins is a server based application running in a Java servlet container, it has support for many SCM (Source Control Management)...
View ArticleMoving with SQL Server to Linux? Move from SQL Server to MySQL as well!
Over the recent years, there has been a large number of individuals as well as organizations who are ditching the Windows platform for Linux platform, and this number will continue to grow as more...
View ArticleUncommon but useful GCC command line options
Software tools usually offer multiple features, but - as most of you will agree - not all their features are used by everyone. Generally speaking, there's nothing wrong in that, as each user has their...
View ArticleHow to Install Gitlab on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Gitlab is a web-based management and collaboration software for GIT servers similar to GitHub. It contains features like issue tracking, file browser, change tracking and a project wiki. In this...
View ArticleAdding a Simple GUI to Linux shell scripts with kdialog
Shell scripts are incredibly useful things. They allow you to do something as basic as creating an easy command to replace a more difficult one with lots of flags, to batching up many complex commands...
View ArticleUncommon but useful GCC command line options - part 2
The gcc compiler offers a seemingly never-ending list of command line options. Of course, no body uses or has expertise on all of them, but there are a select bunch that every gcc user should - if not...
View ArticleHow to Install and Use Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL on CentOS 7
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Rails on CentOS 7. We will install and configure Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL database, and then create our first project with Rails. Ruby on Rails...
View ArticleHow to use and make the most of fuser command in Linux
Suppose you are given a task to identify the processes that are using a particular file, and then kill them one by one - all this has to be done from the command line. What would you do? Well, if you...
View ArticleHow to setup rsyslog for Centralized Log Management
This tutorial explains how to setup rsyslog as a centralized log management server on RedHat Linux based OS like CentOS. Centralized log management means to collect all sorts of logs from several...
View ArticleHow to Install Redmine 3 with Nginx on CentOS 7
Redmine is an open source web application for project management and issue tracker. In this tutorial, we will install Redmine 3.2 with Nginx as the web server, MySQL as the database server on a CentOS...
View ArticleThe Perfect Server - Debian 8.6 (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3.1)
This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian 8 (Jessie) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig, and how to install ISPConfig 3.1. ISPConfig 3 is a web hosting control panel...
View ArticleHow to easily open a PDF file from command line in Ubuntu
What do you do when you want to open a PDF file in Ubuntu? Simple, double click on the PDF file icon, or right-click and select the "Open with Document Viewer" option. But what if you're asked to do...
View ArticleHow to install PHP 7.1 as PHP-FPM & FastCGI for ISPConfig 3.1 on Debian 8...
This tutorial shows how to build PHP 7.1 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on Debian 8 (Jessie) which can also be used for the multi PHP version function in the ISPConfig Hosting Control Panel. This...
View ArticleHow to Install ownCloud 9.1 with Nginx and MariaDB on CentOS 7
OwnCloud is a server software for data synchronization and file sharing with an easy to use web frontend. OwnCloud can be installed on a Linux or Windows server, it is easy to configure and has a...
View ArticleHow to build a Ceph Distributed Storage Cluster on CentOS 7
Ceph is a widely used open source storage platform. It provides high performance, reliability, and scalability. The Ceph free distributed storage system provides an interface for object, block, and...
View ArticleImprove Network Performance with openDataplane and Open Fast Path on Ubuntu...
The performance of Linux-based network solutions was one of the biggest issues in the past and that's why Intel started the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) project. The goal of the ODP environment is...
View ArticleHow to access your Google Drive account using overGrive
If you are looking for a decent Google Drive client for Linux, you've come to the right place as we've already covered a couple of clients - Grive and Gdrive - here at HowtoForge. In this tutorial,...
View ArticleExpanding a software RAID on Debian by migrationg to new large hard disks
This tutorial shows you the steps to replace two old hard disks with new (larger) ones when using a software RAID on Debian.
View ArticleUsing Ceph as Block Device on CentOS 7
Ceph is an open source storage platform, it provides high performance, reliability, and scalability. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step to install and configure a Ceph Block Device client...
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