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5 cool android apps for linux administrators

jagbir — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:58:47 +0000

Having an android based smartphone is cool and using apps related to your core work in it is even more cooler Though there’s not much choice available as far as apps for Linux admin are concerned, but still there are few useful. I tried hereby compiling list of 5 such apps which can be helpful [...]

Dynamically manage Apache virtualhosts in Linux

jagbir — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:18:43 +0000

This is second part of article to describe how to dynamically manage Apache Virtual host. You can read first article here. In earlier article I mentioned using a php script to dynamically create/remove virtualhost entry in Apache (httpd) config file and then reload it using cron. Here I would describe how to manage DNS to [...]

PHP script to dynamically create/remove apache virtual hosts/ subdomains

jagbir — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:08:17 +0000

There’s situation with my friend where his team wanted to dynamically create/remove virtual hosts or subdomains using php. This can be achieved in several ways. You can use a control panel which obviously use resources or develop your own script to do this. There’s security aspects attached with script because it needs to update file [...]

Upgrade/update php to latest 5.2.17 in Linux

jagbir — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:54:54 +0000

In a CentOS 5.5 host, we were required to upgrade php to its latest release which is 5.2.17 when writing this article. Again there are various options to do such upgrade and trying to install with the package manager (yum) is just one (aka easy) of them. You can also trying downloading latest source code [...]

Fix ftp/vsftpd issues in Ubuntu server

jagbir — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:54:36 +0000

This is a quick post describing some issues that you may face while installing/running vsftpd in Ubuntu host. I will quickly walk through steps, beginning with installation and then configuration for general purpose FTP access. 1. Install and run vsftpd without login shell Most obvious thing while running a ftp server is to run it [...]