Putting Varnish In Front Of Apache On Ubuntu/Debian Rumi, March 22, 2012 Varnish is an open source "web accelerator" which you can use to speed up your website. It can cache certain static elements, such as images or javascript but you can also use it for other purposes such as Loadbalancing or some additional security. In this tutorial we will focus… Continue Reading
Improving Apache Tomcat Security – A Step By Step Guide Rumi, March 21, 2012 Apache Tomcat boasts an impressive track record when it comes to security. According to the official Apache Tomcat Wiki Pages, there has never been a reported case of actual damage or significant data loss due to a malicious attack on any Apache Tomcat instance. Most vulnerabilities, both major and minor,… Continue Reading
A Simple Step-By-Step Guide To Apache Tomcat SSL Configuration Rumi, March 21, 2012March 21, 2012 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that provides security for communications between client and server by implementing encrypted data and certificate-based authentication. Technically, the term "SSL" now refers to the Transport Layer ouSecurity (TLS) protocol, which is based on the original SSL specification. SSL is one of the most… Continue Reading
Windows 7 theme on Ubuntu 10.04 Rumi, March 11, 2012 Introduction This wiki page helps you to setup Ubuntu to look like the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. This is a quick hack of the original theme at: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Pack?content=113264. This theme is for those who want to use a fast, secure operating system but do not want to learn a… Continue Reading
Install Tomcat 6 in Debian Rumi, February 19, 2012 This article outlines a procedure for installing Tomcat 6 in Debian Lenny. Keep in mind that this does not include Apache 2 installation or integration. Apache must be installed separately and integrated to work with Tomcat. Add following line in sources list- nano /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze non-free Update… Continue Reading
Neighbour table overflow Rumi, February 10, 2012 If you have a big network with the hundreds of hosts you can expect “Neighbour table overflow” error which occurs in large networks when there are two many ARP requests which the server is not able to reply. For example you’re using server as a DHCP server, cable modems provisioning,… Continue Reading
Webmin install on Debian System Rumi, February 9, 2012 If you are using the DEB version of webmin, first download the file from the downloads page , or run the command : wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.580_all.deb then run the command : dpkg –install webmin_1.580_all.deb The install will be done automatically to /usr/share/webmin, the administration username set to root and the password… Continue Reading
How To Control Access To Unwanted Websites Using URL Blacklist With SafeSquid Proxy Server Rumi, January 14, 2012January 14, 2012 SafeSquid – Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to control access to unwanted categories of websites, by using URL Blacklist database with SafeSquid… Continue Reading
Recover MySQL root Password Rumi, December 27, 2011 You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps. Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process. Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password. Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the… Continue Reading
How to Allow MySQL Client to Connect to Remote MySQL server Rumi, December 19, 2011 By default, MySQL does not allow remote clients to connect to the MySQL database. If you try to connect to a remote MySQL database from your client system, you will get “ERROR 1130: Host is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server” message as shown below. $ mysql -h… Continue Reading