loadUserProfile and IIS7 – understanding temporary directory failures Rumi, March 7, 2010 I’ve noticed quite a few people running into temporary directory permission issues. The PHP blog post I made last month is one example of this issue, there are also several forum posts related to ASP & Access database failures, where the reported failure is: Microsoft JET Database Engine error ‘80004005’… Continue Reading
How to install PHP on IIS Rumi, March 7, 2010 *Updated Recommendations – Please read the following instructions for running PHP fast and reliably* The FASTEST and EASIEST way to install PHP on IIS is using Microsoft’s Web Platform installer. It completely automates setting up IIS, FastCGI and the latest version of PHP from the php.net site. To install it,… Continue Reading
Google public DNS Rumi, January 5, 2010 What is Google Public DNS? Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. To try it out: * Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS… Continue Reading
Howto Install PHP GD (PHP Graphics) support in Ubuntu / Debian Rumi, October 5, 2009 PHP is not limited to creating just HTML output. It can also be used to create and manipulate image files in a variety of different image formats, including GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP, and XPM. Even more convenient, PHP can output image streams directly to a browser. You need to install… Continue Reading
Squid proxy server with user authentication Rumi, June 28, 2009 If you are planning to set up proxy authentication program, using squid+webmin it’s quite simple- Click “Authentication Program” icon on webmin Enter the following infos in the right boxes- Basic authentication program- /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth Number of authentication programs- 5 Authentication cache time- 5 Hrs Back to squid index Click “Access Control”… Continue Reading
Ubuntu- adding new interfaces Rumi, June 28, 2009 It was a little tricky than my centos or suse or fedora experiences, start looking for- /etc/network/interfaces And here goes my configurations- Continue Reading
Install Ubuntu 8.04.2 (32 bit) Server Rumi, June 28, 2009 It is recommended to use a clean (fresh) Ubuntu 8.04 LTS install where you selected no additional packages or servers during setup. : 1) Prepare your OS ******************************************************************************* Become root user by executing: ___ sudo su ___ and entering the password of the user that you created during setup. Edit… Continue Reading
Microsoft “Dhaka” daylight savings patch Rumi, June 18, 2009June 18, 2009 Microsoft Bangladesh today announced a patch based fix to address the Day Light Saving Time (DST) which is supposed to be effective in Bangladesh from June 19th at 11PM. This fix can be downloaded from Microsoft’s corporate website by going to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423 and will be applicable to Computers running on… Continue Reading
Installing Proftpd on Suse Linux 11.0 Rumi, May 24, 2009 It was a really time consuming to make a workable daemon of proftp server. Surprisingly, this daemon is not a easily setup by other linux disto like FC or CentOS or RHL. Anyway, the purpose on installing this is to make it work with Webmin+Virtualmin package. So, this installation will… Continue Reading
Apache htaccess and htpasswd Rumi, May 23, 2009March 29, 2017 In order to protect a site or a directory using Apache htaccess and htpasswd files follow the steps- 1. Creating .htaccess file and putting the following code- AuthUserFile /your/abosolute/path/to/this/file/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName “Protected files” AuthType Basic <Limit GET> require valid-user </Limit> 2. Create a .htpasswd in the same directory as… Continue Reading