How to Install and Configure GitLab on Ubuntu 16.04 Rumi, October 23, 2019 GitLab is an open source GIT repository manager based on Rails and developed by GitLab Inc. It is a web-based GIT repository manager that allows your team to work on code, track bugs and feature requests and to test and deploy applications. GitLab provides features like a wiki, issue tracking, code… Continue Reading
Accessing Nextcloud files using WebDAV Rumi, October 11, 2019 Mapping a network drive in Windows Go to the Start menu and click on ‘Computer’. When the ‘Computer’ file browser window opens, then click on ‘Map network drive’. Continue Reading
Add a User To Group www-data ( Apache Group ) Rumi, October 10, 2019 The procedure is as follows: Open the terminal application. Login to Ubuntu server using ssh. Add a new user named foo to www-data group by running useradd -g www-data foo command. Add an existing user bar to Apache’s www-data group on Ubuntu using usermod -a -G www-data bar command. Verify new modification on Linux… Continue Reading
Install Laravel 5 Framework on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 Rumi, October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Below is the system requirements for the installation of latest Laravel application on your system. PHP >= 7.2 OpenSSL PHP Extension PDO PHP Extension Mbstring PHP Extension Tokenizer PHP Extension XML PHP Extension Ctype PHP Extension JSON PHP Extension BCMath PHP Extension Step 1 – Install LAMP To start with… Continue Reading
Resizing a VirtualBox Virtual Hard Disk Rumi, October 6, 2019 Prerequisites Before you start this procedure you’ll need to do the following. Make sure you have the VBoxManage command-line tool installed on your host system. Download the ISO for a GParted Live CD or else a Linux Live CD using a Linux distribution that includes the GParted partition editor utility. IMPORTANT: If the virtual disk… Continue Reading
How to Setup a Multi-Protocol VPN Server Using SoftEther Rumi, September 14, 2019 SoftEther VPN is one of the world’s most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software, made by the good folks at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris and is freeware and open-source. You can use SoftEther for any personal or commercial use free… Continue Reading
Archiving a large backup across multiple discs on Linux Rumi, September 6, 2019 We have two options (as we obviously don’t want to delete our data!) Use a different backup medium Split the backup across multiple volumes Sometimes the former just isn’t appropriate, as much because of the cost of harddrives vs Optical Media (i.e. CD’s/DVD’s). This short tutorial will explain how to… Continue Reading
Using NGinx to serve static files and Apache for dynamic Rumi, September 6, 2019 Apache is a great web-server, but it has a pretty heavy memory footprint. It can get quite restrictive quite quickly, especially if you’re on a system will limited resources (given how many people now run on a VPS, and the poor disk IO of these systems it’s all the more… Continue Reading
Configuring Postfix to block outgoing mail to all but one domain Rumi, September 6, 2019 This is so simple to do, but I have to look it up every time I need it (not something that comes up regularly!); When configuring a development server, you may find you have a need to ensure that emails will not be sent to any domain except those you… Continue Reading
Install VirtualBox on Centos 6 / 7 Rumi, September 6, 2019 Step 1 – Add Required Yum Repositories Firstly you are required to add VirtualBox yum repository in your system. Download repository file from its official site and place it under at /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo .First navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and use one of below commands as per your operating system. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo… Continue Reading