Share This: This article explains how to install and configure PostgreSQL for a Confluence on a CentOS 7 server.  Read the other Confluence articles on this blog to ensure your web server (if you’re using one) is configured correctly. yum install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib Next you’ll need to do the automatic

Share This: Bitbucket from Atlasian needs a version of Git above whatever Redhat/CentOS give us. This article explains how to get the right version. You need to download and install Git manually. But don’t worry, it’s simple. You’ll probably already have Git installed. Check by issuing the command that follows.

Share This: Once the Confluence application is installed and you can log in as the Administrator, you should consider following this document’s steps to ensure the basics are completed. We’re going to cover setting up automatic backups, corrections to the Base URL (if needed), adding a user, configuring email settings

Share This: The goal of AGIX is to further the open-source philosophy and promote good security practices. It’s because of this that AGIX has created a website to assist students study for and pass IT security exams such as CompTIA Security+ and CompTIA Cyber Security Analyst. https://www.examkabam.com/ We encourage you

Share This: If you get the error message as follows or similar to it, this article is for you. One or more HTTP connection tests failed against localhost. Cannot connect to self over HTTP — possible DNS resolution issue. Can’t connect to: http://www.example.com In order to run s2Member, your installation

Share This: This article shows how to add new users to a Linux server manually. The process is very simple.  As the “root” user we will be created one user called “ben”. useradd ben The above command will create the new user and “should” create the users home directory at

Share This: This is a multi-part series of Nagios articles all focused on configuring a complete Nagios monitored network. Find all related articles here. Nagios has the ability to send emails to contacts (email addresses) and groups of contacts when events occur. This article demonstrates how contacts get notified. The

Share This: This is a multi-part series of Nagios articles all focused on configuring a complete Nagios monitored network. Find all related articles here. Nagios monitors servers, switch and pretty much anything you like and each device must be defined in a file that Nagios looks at for guidance. That

Share This: This is a multi-part series of Nagios articles all focused on configuring a complete Nagios monitored network. Find all related articles here. I’ve written about this before but times have changed and CentOS 7 is slightly different to CentOS 6. This article explains how to configure a very

Share This: This is a multi-part series of Nagios articles all focused on configuring a complete Nagios monitored network. Find all related articles here. This article demonstrates how to install and configure the Nagios monitoring system (the server) on a Linux CentOS 7 or RHEL7 server. This article goes as

Share This: If you find your WordPress content repeating its self, consider the following possibility. In this case i found the issue to be a plugin that was causing errors in javascript. The “./plugins/optimize-javascript/merged/” directory (if it exists) contains optimized JS which i’ve found to be occasionally faulty. Delete the

Share This: You’ll be wishing you did this before something went wrong. My hope is that the storm hasn’t arrived and you still have time to implement a proper system to track, control and report on staff Internet use. The fact is that staff will use the Internet for whatever

Share This: Sometimes a visitor will arrive at your webserver by specifying the target (your server) by IP address only. This means they will get the first default vhost. It also means they will get an SSL error (mismatching name). This article shows how you can block that with a

Share This: Redhat has a website listing their current kernel versions for various releases of their distribution. This can be handy to find out if your installation has the right version or needs an update. https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078 Here’s a sample:

Share This: Rsync will not include ACLs by default. However, increasingly ACLs are in use and required to control access to the filesystem. Neglecting ACLs in the copy process will likely cause security problems. rsync -avz /source/* /destination/ To include ACL’s, use the following: rsync -aAvz /source/* /destination/

Share This: Sometimes it’s necessary to copy a directory structure without copying the actual files. This is a two step process as i’ve demonstrated below. However, i bet you can do it with a single command using “find” and its “exec” feature. In this example we’ll copy the “/etc” directory

Share This: This is a HowTo describing the download and installation process for a dedicated Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare Linux server. You will need a copy of the game data to do this. Here’s the note on this matter in the Readme that comes with the CoD4 Linux

Share This: This article should be of benefit to anyone who has a php application sending emails from multiple domain names, a postfix mail server and the need to have emails properly routed depending on the sending domain name. We’re dealing with a situation where the mail server is “sending”

Share This: In this article we demonstrate how to forward the root users Inbox to an external email address. An email heading to the root users local inbox will not be delivered to root but instead forwarded to the specified email addresses. Yes, we can forward to multiple addresses. Edit

Share This: This article demonstrates how to rate limit Search Bots with NginX. Our objective is to allow all visitors high speeds while trying to slow down search bots. We’ll limit both kinds of traffic but our priority is to ensure real people have a nicer experience. We’ll be limiting

Share This: This is a short example article showing how you can add an existing use to an existing group. Read the other Ansible articles on this blog site for more information about how YML files are formatted. — – hosts: all sudo: yes tasks: – user: name: myusername shell:

Share This: We’ve got a virtual server that’s low on disk space. The system administrator responsible for the virtual machine has expanded the disk. Now we need to expand the filesystem to include the additional disk space. TIP: There are two ways we can do this. 1) Don’t expand the

Share This: This article shows how to copy role permissions from one server to another. In other words, if you’re moving a database from one server to another and you want permissions to come across too, you’ll be interested in this article. if you have trouble wit this, make sure

Share This: The architecture that you decide to use for your Magento site will directly impact the performance of the online store. This article discusses a few alternative ways you can put the puzzle together. There are more and you can be creative with where you place your caching (Varnish)