How do I rename multiple files at a shell prompt under Linux or UNIX operating systems? Renaming multiple files at a shell prompt is always considered as a black art by many UNIX gurus. To be frank if you understand regex then it is not a black art anymore. A regular expression is a string [...]
Jinzora is a web based media server and management system written in php. It enables you to play your music and organise your music from any computer connected to the internet. It can stream to different multimedia devices at multiple bandwidths, so you can listen to you music at home in high quality, listen to [...]
A seed box is a server for downloading and uploading digital files, commonly making use of the BitTorrent protocol. A common use for seed boxes is seeding torrents, it’s much more efficient to setup a Seedbox as it’s likely to have access to higher upload speeds. They are also good for general downloading, its easier [...]
Nagios is the Industry Standard Network Monitoring Engine. OK great so whats that mean, well nagios is a server that monitors your hosts and services and will inform you if something goes wrong and when it is fixed again. It can monitor network services, host resources and even network probes such as temperature and moisture. [...]
Ahh the good old IRC server, these things have been letting people chat to each other since 1988. In there most basic form they are chat room servers, pretty much every chat room you’ve used on a web page is connecting to an IRC server. They definitely have a place in computing history as they [...]
I’m talking about Folding@Home, the distributed computing project that runs throughout the world to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. The project is running large scale simulations on Protein Folds to try and cure diseases like Alzheimer’s, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers. So how can your server help, well I [...]
Most PHP scripts and content management system scripts (CMS scripts) require writable permission 777 (rwxrwzrwz) to be set for certain folders for uploading photos and videos. Many security experts warn that setting 777 permission means that anybody can upload any content to your server, install malicious code, run unwanted programs and could potentially misuse your [...]
Over three years of low-maintenance website development and going strong. For apache2.2, there was one slight change needed for the virtual hosts (fake, local domains) files. For Ubuntu 9.10, there was a change to the choices you have for administering the network settings. Namely, the GUI System- Admin- Network is gone and the System- Prefs- [...]
This page shows how to set up static IP addresses for a personal computer on a home network using both a GUI interface and the direct method of editing the appropriate configuration files. This is important in my home network for using NFS Linux-to-Linux file sharing and for using Virtual Hosts in a private LAN development environment. I’m also [...]
There have been more than a couple searches leading here that are similar to “configure PHP virtual hosts”. There was a change to the default Apache config introduced in Ubuntu 10.4, Lucid Lynx. There is a message in the /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf file that tells you what to do. REMEMBER: Restart apache and clear your browser’s cache [...]
