Bludit is a completely free, open source content management web application that can be used to make your own site or blog in seconds. It is fast, simple and extensible content management system application writen in PHP that uses flat-files to store its content, so you don’t need to install any database. In this tutorial, […]

CS-Cart is a commercial PHP shopping cart that can be used for any online business, from a small startup to a large web shop. It uses a MySQL database to store data and a template engine to build the website’s look. You can easily build an ecommerce website of any size from a small web […]

Gitlab is an open source repository management application based on Ruby on Rails. It was split in to two editions, “GitLab Community Edition” and “GitLab Enterprise Edition”, both are free and open source software distributed under the MIT License. Gitlab is graphical implementation of the git version control system. It is used for maintaining current […]

There are many powerful, open source CMS applications available such as Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. But this will require a significant amount of your time for installation, configuration and management. Grav is a file based, fast, simple and flexible web content management system application written in PHP and uses Twig as a template engine. Grav […]

Lynis is an open source and widely used security auditing tool for Unix like operating systems. It will help system administrators and security professionals to run security scans in just few minutes and find vulnerabilities in your operating system. Lynis scans the whole operating system and determines system information like OS type, installed packages, security […]

Sphinx is an open source search engine specially designed to provide search functionality to client applications. Sphinx can also be used for performing searches over large volumes of data easily. Sphinx can be easily integrated with SQL and XML sources. It is very good tool for querying and advanced indexes. In this tutorial, we will […]

Introduction Mautic is free and open source marketing automation application that can be used to save time and increase sales. You can also integrate mautic with various email services like Gmail, Sendgrid and Mandrill. In this tutorial we will learn how to install Mautic on Ubuntu 16.04 server. Requirements A server running Ubuntu-16.04. A non-root […]

Introduction PhpWiki is a web based wiki content management system written in PHP. You can easily create and edit pages through web browser using PhpWiki. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure PhpWiki on Ubuntu 16.04. Requirements A server running Ubuntu-16.04. A non-root user with sudo privileges setup on your […]

Piwik is free and open source web analytics tool written in PHP. Piwik uses MySQL/MariaDB to store its data. Piwik is an open source, self hosted alternative of Google analytics providing nearly as many features as Google analytics provides. Piwik helps you gather and analyse important information about the visitors of your website providing important […]

Introduction InvoicePlane is an open source application built to offer free client management, invoicing and payment tracking that can be used by a freelancer or small to medium sized business. This project is the official sucessor and owner of the codebase of FusionInvoice 1.x written by Jesse Terry. When FusionInvoice transformed into a commercial product […]

Ghost is a new open source blogging platform which is developed solely for blogging purpose. Ghost is developed using Node.js, which makes it fast, scalable and efficient. You can easily publish your blog using Ghost as it uses Markdown syntax in editor unlike the other CMS which uses WYSIWYG editor. It lets you see how […]

Overview Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) shipped with Jetty 8. You might want to use the latest version of Jetty which is Jetty 9. Jetty 9 already shipped in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) but you might still need to use Ubuntu 14.04 on your environment but at the same time you want to use. Jetty 9 […]

Introduction Mediawiki is a free and open source software package written in PHP, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Mediawiki runs on many websites such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons. Mediawiki also known as a wiki engine is software that allows users to create and edit pages via a web browser. In this tutorial, we […]

Suracata is a free and open source intrusion detection system developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). It is capable of real time intrusion detection, network security monitoring, inline intrusion prevention and offline pcap processing. Suricata detects the network traffic using a powerful rules. You can inspect complex threats using powerful Lua scripting. Suricata […]

ClamAV or Clam Antivirus is an open source antivirus tool for UNIX. It was built specially for scanning emails at mail gateways but these days it is used for securing various types of systems and applications. ClamAV provides a number of utilities including a flexible multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for […]

Monitorix is open source server monitoring software. It is very small and lightweight and is designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. Monitorix has been under development since 2005. The software mainly consists of two components, monitorix which is a data collector and starts automatically as system service, the other one […]

MediaWiki is a free, open source web application written in PHP. It was originally created for Wikipedia but now everyone can use it. It uses MySQL to store its data. MediaWiki is designed to handle very large traffic, about a million requests per day. Pages use MediaWiki’s wikitext format which means a user can easily […]

Icinga 2 is an open source system monitoring tool that is used to check the availability of your network resources, services and generates performance data for reporting. Icinga 2 also provides a user friendly web interface with more options to manage all systems. You can can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations using Icinga […]

LimeSurvey also known as PHPSurveyor is an open source online survey application written in PHP. It is developed in PHP and uses MySQL, sqlite, and PostgreSQL on the backend for database related operations. You can easily develop and publish online surveys create statistics, and export the data to other applications using web interface. It enables […]

Dstat is a replacement for the vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat utility that overcomes some limitations by adding extra features. Dstat is one of the most powerful and flexible utilities for generating and monitoring Linux resource statistics. You can easily view your system resources instantly using dstat. You can also export dstat’s data to aCSV […]