Category: Ubuntu

This article will guide you on how you can manipulate IP Addresses and routes using the Command Line on Debian-based Linux Distributions, especially on systems without and Graphical User Interface. The standard commands used to manage network configurations on almost every Linux system are: ifconfig, ip and route. While this commands are used to change network …

By default most of Debian-based systems use DHCP dynamic method in order to assign IP Addresses on network interfaces. This tutorial will guide you on how you can assign permanent manual Static IP Address on network cards or create permanent Virtual Network Interfaces in order to assign multiple IP Addresses on physical network devices on Debian-based …

DNS system is the networking service responsible with mapping IP Addresses to names or vice-versa, making easy for humans to identify hosts, servers or other equipment on a network based on their names. On Ubuntu, the /etc/resolv.conf file is responsible with resolving system-wide domain name mapping by sending DNS queries to the nameservers IP Addresses. The …

LAMP stack is an acronim which stands for Linux Apache HTTP webserver, MySQL relational database and PHP dynamic programming language and is one of the most robust, stable and widely used Open Source collaboarative web software platform in Internet today due to is freely-available source code implementation, highly suitable for dynamic websites developing on all Linux …

Virtual Hosts represents a mechanism in which Apache can serve different web content based on separate IP Addresses (IP-based Vhosts) or serve multiple websites or domains and subdomains based on a single IP Address or network interface (Name-based Vhosts). Apache Name-based Virtual Hosts on Internet works hand-in-hand with the DNS server, which is responsible with mapping …

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) represents a cryptographic protocol used in web HTTP transactions between two parts , usually a server and a client, (in this case between Apache HTTPD web server and a browser) in which the information exchanged between them is securely transmitted over the network. Once the connection is negotiated and established at both …

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is an protocol which allows Apache Web Server to interact with external programs, especially scripts written in interpreted languages, such as Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby, or even compiled programs, written in C, C++ or others, in order to generate dynamic web content. Basically, CGI programs or scripts can be written in any …

PhpMyAdmin is an Open Source administrative web interface for MySQL server written in PHP designed for users to easily interact and perform MySQL database tasks such as manage databases users and permissions, create, modify or delete databases or execute SQL statements. This tutorial will provide a short guide on how you can install and secure PhpMyAdmin …

Apache is one of the most widely spread Open Source web server for web hosting in Internet due to its stability, robustness and rich variety of modules and features. Due to its popularity, Apache comes with pre-build binary packages for almost all major Linux distributions and can also be installed on other Operating Systems such as …

ASP.NET is an Open Source server-side web application framework developed by Microsoft designed for programmers to create dynamic web pages. While ASP.NET framework is widely used in conjunction with Windows IIS Web Server, an alternative for deploying ASP.NET applications exists on Linux distributions too and is represented by the Mono Project along with its mod_mono module …