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Magento is a popular e-commerce platform. Recently I had a requirement to install Magento on a new server. After using popular environments such as Nginx and Lightttpd with PHP-FPM, I was having a difficult time going back to Apache. ...
Database Tuning has been described as a blackart. And in many ways I suppose this statement is correct. However, I look at it as more along the lines of identifying bottlenecks and then finding solutions to those bottlenecks. A good...
For those of you who using Fedora Core, may have noticed that they are using a completely new system and service manager called systemd, which replaces SysV. This new tool addresses some of the inherent problems with Sysv including providing...
Yii provides an excellent PHP develop framework for any web based application. Yii includes a robust database abstraction layer and Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture that is a pleasure to work with and easy to understand. You can...
Integrating Linux in a predominantly Windows environment at a local University can be challenging on many fronts. The biggest challenges are often lack of expertise from administrators, and proper support in Active Directory like installing Services...
This basic tutorial will show you how to install and configure a very basic Samba server. Samba implements windows file and print sharing for Linux. Install the Samba binaries
sudo apt-get install smbclient samba samba-common
Configure Samba...
Sometimes your system refuses to boot properly. Even recovery mode selection from the command line prompt is not very helpful. Here is a good technique to boot your Linux system into single user mode. Single user mode is great for...
File commandsSystem Infols -- Directory listingdate -- Show the current date and timels -las -- Formated listing with hidden filescal -- Show this months calendarcd dir -- Change the directory to diruptime -- Show the current uptimepwd -- Show current...
Even Linux is subject to system freezes. Problems with defective hardware, or a pesky bug in the Linux kernel itself can leave your system in a frozen state and unresponsive to key board commands. Even the three fingure salute, ctrl + alt +...
Have you ever wanted to scan a network for NFS volumes that are available. The following script requires the NFS client tools in order to work properly.First install nfs client toolsRedhat/Centos
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sudo yum install nfs-...