Overview Welcome to the second of my DNS articles. It is more of a prequel to my first article in which I explained the steps in Creating A DNS Entry For A SubDomain. This article assumes you have already installed bind and it is all running. If not, then you will need to setup bind [...]
Overview Welcome to the first of a bunch of DNS articles I will write to help explain the different tasks needed to configure and manage your own DNS server using bind under Linux. The article assumes you have already installed bind and it is all running. If not, then you will need to setup bind [...]
Most of us have come across this error: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of xxxxxx bytes exhausted (tried to allocate yyy bytes) in ….” in the php error logs. In php, running out of memory in usually a sign that your php script is not too well written or has a bug or two in [...]
What is PEAR? PEAR is an acronym for PHP Extension and Application Repository. PEAR is a massive repository for PHP code. It provide easy access to hundreds of classes that can be implemented into your existing PHP project. It saves you time since you won’t have to write anything from scratch and you can simply reuse [...]
FTP, FTPS, SFTP and SCP are all protocols in which we communicate and transfer files between servers and computers. Here is a brief overview of what each one is. FTP FTP stand for file transfer protocol. FTP is a protocol most commonly used when uploading and downloading files from a servers. The least secure method [...]
In this guide, you will be shown how to setup the IP address of a computer running Linux. Before we know which way to configure your network card, you need to know if you want to use a static or dynamic IP address. Broadband made better. Superfast broadband, unlimited downloads and free award winning UK [...]
If you have ever wondered why your log files randomly change permissions each night. Logrotate could be up to its tricks. Similar to the other article I published on Why is apache randomly restarting which explains why logrotate could be causing apache to restart randomly. Each time logrotate runs its course, it will compress, rename and [...]
The below guide will show you have to create an FTP account for vsftpd and also block ssh access making a ssh account a ftp only account. This will also disable telnet access to the ssh account. Step 1 – Create the user Create the ssh user, this will be the FTP username. someusername is [...]
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