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Configure DHCP Server Step-by-Step config Guide Using Webmin

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client/server protocol that automatically provides an Internet Protocol (IP) host with its IP address and other related configuration information such as the subnet mask and default gateway.

In our previous article, you have setup your DNS Server using Webmin, refer below link for more information.

In this article We will seen how to configure DHCP Server Using Webmin(web-based interface). Webmin tool offer to new system administrators to perform all system management task from via a web browser, Instead of using the command line console or terminal. You can also manage a system from the console or remotely.

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Install PSiTransfer on Debian 8 A Simple Open Source Self-hosted File Sharing Solution

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PSiTransfer, which is a simple and open source file sharing utility. Using PSiTransfer, we can either share our files locally or globally. Unlike transfer.sh, it is not a website. It is actually a self-hosted file sharing platform. You can deploy it on home system to share files over local area network. Or, you can deploy it on a VPS or Cloud, so that you can access or share your files from anywhere, using any Internet-enabled device. Since, it comes with built-in web server, you don’t need to deploy any other extra software. All you need is a web browser to access or share your stuffs.

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Simple way to tune apache performance using mpm prefork module

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There could be many reasons why your website performance is poor, one of them can possibly be that Apache is not coping with the load. Below you’ll find ready to consume configuration to make Apache performance better using the Apache MPM prefork module.

To do this, just include the below lines into your httpd.conf apache configuration file:

<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
 StartServers 2
 MinSpareServers 2
 MaxSpareServers 5
 MaxClients 200 #must be customized
 ServerLimit 200 #must be customized
 MaxRequestsPerChild 100
 </IfModule>

KeepAlive Off

Some explanations are here:

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Install And Configure Varnish Cache With Apache On Debian 7

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Varnish Cache is a web accelerator, sometimes referred to as a HTTP accelerator or a reverse HTTP proxy, that will significantly enhance your web performance.

Varnish speeds up a website by storing a copy of the page served by the web server the first time a user visits that page. The next time a user requests the same page, Varnish will serve the copy instead of requesting the page from the web server.

This means that your web server needs to handle less traffic and your website’s performance and scalability go through the roof. Varnish cache will increase the delivery of your web content by 80 % or more, depending on your architecture.

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List all DNS records from a Nameserver using nslookup

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Method-1)
How to list all records below some domain name.

Usually it’s done from interactive nslookup mode, not from batch mode

nslookup - your_dns_server
>set q=any
>ls -d domain.name

listing may be prohibited by administrator or by firewall settings, in that case you get empty output or ‘not implemented’ errors.

Method-2)
How to get all records of the domain name itself. In that case you need to run on Windows:

nslookup -"set q=all" yourdomain.com

onUnix:

nslookup -q=any yourdomain.com
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Hiding Apache and PHP Server Signature

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Revealing web server signature with server/PHP version info can be a security risk as you are essentially telling attackers known vulnerabilities of your system. Thus it is recommended you disable all web server signatures as part of server hardening process.signature

Disable Apache Web Server Signature

Disabling Apache web server signature can be achieved by editing Apache config file.

On Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint:

$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

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Mount a Remote Directory With SSHFS

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sshfs is a filesystem based on the SSH file transfer protocol. It is used on a client system i.e. you need to install sshfs package on your local computer/laptop powered by CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian/Arch Linux. No need to install anything on server (server1.cyberciti.biz). You only need an openssh server installed on server side. Our sample setup:

Installing SSHFS on a Ubuntu/Debian/Mint Linux

Type the following apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install sshfs

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How to correctly install wkhtmltopdf on debian 64 bit?

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Ubuntu and Debian packages are compatible most times but not in all cases, i think this is the trouble you’re having you’re trying to use the Ubuntu’s .deb for Debian instead you should get the Debian specific file, (it works for both jessie and wheezy)

wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-wheezy-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-wheezy-amd64.deb

Then in the /etc/init.d/openerp-server or /etc/init.d/odoo-server script(s), depending on your which one you have

add /usr/local/bin to the front of path environment variable for example,

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin,

This tells odoo where to look for system binaries it requires or optionally you can copy the files to /usr/bin, if you don’t want to mess with those files

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmlto* /usr/bin/

Src: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38262173/how-to-correctly-install-wkhtmltopdf-on-debian-64-bit

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Postfix using Gmail as a Mail Relay with Debian 7

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Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, you should have:

  • Debian 7 installed
  • Your fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
  • All updates installed :
apt-get update

A valid username and password for the SMTP mail provider, such as Mandrill, or SendGrid
Make sure the libsasl2-modules package is installed and up to date:

apt-get install libsasl2-modules

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