Introduction Security is very important thing to consider when you run your own server. The UFW (uncomplicated firewall) is a frontend for managing firewall rules and it is easy to use for host-based firewalls. UFW is used through the command line interface and aims to make firewall configuration easy. Iptables is one of the most […]

Introduction Netstat is a command line network statistics tool that is used for checking your network configuration and activity. It displays both incoming and outgoing network connections, routing tables, network interface and network protocol statistics. It is available on unix operating systems such as Linux, Solaris and BSD, and is available on Windows based operating […]

OpenVPN is an open source application which is widely used to create secure virtual private networks over unsecured public Internet. OpenVPN is SSL VPN solution which tunnels your network connection securely through the Internet. OpenVPN works on client server architecture. All the devices connected to a virtual private network behaves as if they are connected […]

Gogs is a self-hosted git service, similar to Gitlab. It is written in Go and requires much less hardware compared to Gitlab. The goal of Gogs is to provide the easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. As this application is written in Go, it supports all platforms like […]

When you purchase a remote VPS or Cloud Server, it is likely that they will come with a command line interface only. If you want to use a graphical desktop to manage your server and do different tasks, you can follow this guide. In this guide you will learn to install a different lightweight graphical […]

In this tutorial we are going to learn about managing the catalog of our PrestaShop store. PrestaShop provides an easy to use interface to manage your products and categories. PrestaShop also includes monitoring tools which you can easily keep track of your products and stocks. To follow this guide, you must have PrestaShop installed and […]

In this tutorial we will learn about some basic but important PrestaShop Store configurations. If you do not have PrestaShop installed check out our PrestaShop installation guide to install PrestaShop on your shared or dedicated hosting. Before you can follow this guide, you must login to your PrestaShop dashboard. Disabling Demo Mode Once you are […]

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Setting up a good firewall is necessary for every system administrator to secure their operating system. Iptables is a command line tool that allows a linux system administrator to configure the tables provided by the linux kernel implemented within the Netfilter project. Iptables is used to protect your server from unwanted traffic from the internet. […]

PrestaShop is a free and Open Source e-commerce web application written in PHP. It is highly customisable and supports all the major payment services. It is available in many languages and localised for many countries, has a fully responsive design for both front and backend. PrestaShop claims to have more than 250,000 stores running. Unlike […]

ownCloud is open source software which lets you run your own cloud server or file hosting server. ownCloud is based on Client-Server model and it’s functionality is similar to Dropbox or Google Drive. ownCloud is open source and free hence anyone can install it on his private server. ownCloud also supports various extensions which adds […]

HP_NO_IMG/data/uploads/users/70fed463-d441-452e-bb7e-e0e3fa684498/989945849.png” alt=”” /> Introduction Previously we learned how-to install and use rkhunter to check for rootkits on Ubuntu 14.04. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to install and use chkrootkit as alternative to check rootkits on Ubuntu 14.04. chkrootkit is a tool to locally detect for signs of a rootkit. It is listed in the […]

Lighttpd is a secure, fast and very flexible open source web server. It is optimised for a high performance environment and uses very low memory as compared to other web servers. It supports many advanced features for example FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more. It is a popular web server for the Catalyst […]

Netdata is an open source tool to monitor your Linux machine which provides real-time statistics about your server uses in graphs and charts. Netdata can be installed on any system without disrupting any other application. Netdata is extremely lightweight application and uses very less CPU cycles and memory used by Netdata is also extremely less […]

When using Magento as an e-commerce solution, you can easily utilise the platform to create simple products that are straight forward. However, if you sell a product that requires input from the customer, such as size or colour, you will need to understand how to create a configurable product. Configurable products can be created from […]

Pritunl is an open source VPN server and management panel. It uses OpenVPN protocol to run the VPN server. It uses Let’s Encrypt certificate to secure the VPN server and it’s web user interface. Pritunl uses MongoDB to store its database. Pritunl is a very useful application as it uses the most popular open source […]

Magento is the most popular content management system for e-commerce. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL to store its data. It is open source application and used by more than 240,000 merchants around the world. In this tutorial we will install Magento 2 Community Edition on a server running CentOS 7.x. Requirements A […]

XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java. XWiki is an enterprise but open source wiki. It includes WYSIWYG editing, OpenDocument based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management. XWiki allows you to store structured data and execute the server script within wiki interface. Scripting languages including Velocity, Groovy, Python, […]

Ruby on Rails is a very popular open source web application framework written in Ruby. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages. Rails encourages […]

PostgreSQL is an advanced, powerful, open source object-relational database system. It supports almost all operating systems. PostgreSQL can store data securely and can handle requests for a small website to a very large enterprise application. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures. It runs stored […]