Tutorials
This is our main category for all our tutorial based articles. You can find almost anything from server configuration to website optimization.
Install memcached on CentOS 5 and 6
Install memcached on CentOS 5 and 6 Yesterday I had to install memcached on a VPS server for a client which, what he said, was especially needed for his application. For those who don’t know, memcached is a high performance distributed memory object caching system, like its name, it is using your ram memory, speeding up dinamic
Increasing squid cache directory size
Increasing squid cache directory size The past weeks I had to set a reverse proxy using squid. For those who don’t know, squid is a web proxy, but can be used as a reverse proxy and web accelerator. So in my cases I used squid as both a reverse proxy and web accelerator. In this
How to install a ssl certificate on nginx
How to install a ssl certificate on nginx This is really a hassle when using nginx with https and your certificates uses bundle CA files (certificate authority). The only directives that you’re given when installing the certificate is:
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server { listen 443; server_name domain.com; ssl on; ssl_certificate /your/ssl/folder/domain_certificate.crt; ssl_certificate_key /your/ssl/folder/domain_certificate.key; ... } |
So as you can see, you only have those two directives, but nowadays certificates are soled
Email server ports
I provide technical support to a lot of people and some times I do forget, not sure why but it happens. This more of a memo for me, to have here each email server ports that are used around. POP3 – port 110 IMAP – port 143 SMTP – port 25 HTTP – port 80
How to view your site before changing nameservers
How to view your site before changing nameservers This is a topic which I found quite useful in cases where you need to move your site to a new provider while keeping your downtime to the minimum or no downtime at all. The trick here is to have your site run on two servers, your
How to clear your browser cookies and cache
How to clear your browser cookies and cache There are times when you need to make changes to your site settings, design or just change the elements through your entire website. Your hosting provide may or may not enforce browser caching on the most used resources like images, text files, xml files, pdf files etc.,
How to install plugins in MyBB
A few days back I wrote an article on how to install MyBB forum, however, now I will explain how to install plugins in MyBB step by step. The plugins can be downloaded from any place you like, however I would really recommend using the main website www.mybb.com as these are tested/verified by the developer team.
How to use php with MySQL
How to use php with mysql First, what is MySQL? Mysql is the most used open source database engine on the internet. At the current time I believe MySQL community is being owned by Oracle, however it is still maintain as an open source software. In this article I’m going to show you basically how
How to fix the 404 errors in wordpress
How to fix the 404 errors in wordpress When moving website to one server to another, or reverting back from a backup, it will happen for you to encounter 404 errors due the the fact that the .htaccess file is missing, the one that contains the rewrite rules for your permalinks settings. So how to
How to restrict access using .htaccess and robots.txt
How to restrict access using .htaccess and robots.txt There will come a time when you want to restrict access to a certain directory and you don’t want to trouble with password protection and creating users and so on. It is quite simple to manipulate the access in a directory by using a simple .htaccess file.
