Category: Open-Source
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Installing Commercial SSL Certificate in Zimbra Server
Hey there! In this post, I’m going to share my experience on installing a commercial SSL certificate in Zimbra server. Before I get into the actual installation, let’s briefly discuss about how SSL generally works. First, we need to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in our server. If you don’t know how to generate…
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Setting Up Apache WebDAV Storage With LDAP Authentication
Hey there! Let’s talk about WebDAV today. If you don’t know what WebDAV is, I recommend you to read this wiki. It stands for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is a set of extensions to HTTP that facilitates collaborative editing and file management. In a nutshell, it enables write permission to the users, who used…
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Deploying OpenLDAP server on CentOS7 – Getting Started Guide
Hello there! In this post, I’m going to cover the installation and initial configuration of open-source directory server called OpenLDAP. The platform I’m using here is CentOS 7. So, if you’re on different distribution or maybe in different version, the mentioned steps might slightly vary. What is OpenLDAP? OpenLDAP is an open-source implementation of Lightweight…
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Deploying a Wi-Fi Hotspot using CoovaChilli and Hostapd in Ubuntu
Welcome! This is gonna be yet another post on setting up Wi-Fi Hotspot using CoovaChilli. I’m again writing in this topic because it has been the most searched for and viewed post in my whole blog. I’ve also received some private requests from people across the world regarding this subject. So, I’m going to dedicate this post…
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How to Increase Size of Root Partition in CentOS
Being a system engineer, I often face scenarios in which I need to resize various system partitions in my Linux servers. Although this task isn’t that difficult, it’s definitely a very critical one because it can lead to the dis-functioning of your whole server. So, we must be very careful and cautious while trying to…
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Docker: Running Apache Web Server In A Container
This is my second post for this blog series on Docker. If you haven’t already read my previous post, I highly recommend you to read that article first. Here, I’m going to dive a little deeper into container management by working on a further complicated application and advanced features of docker. Until now, I’ve already…
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Docker: How To Get Started With Containers in Ubuntu
Are you a Software developer, or a DevOps engineer, or an IT student, or simply a tech-enthusiast? If yes, my guess is that you already know what containers are and how the Docker project is making it better. Unlike virtual machines, which run on their own kernel modules regardless of their hypervisor‘s kernel; containers utilize…
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CubLinux – Yet Another Linux Distribution
Welcome to my yet another post! If you’re a fan of Linux, then this article is definitely for you. Here, I’m going to write a little review of a new Linux distro that I’ve been using lately. I don’t know about you, but I hadn’t heard about a Linux distro called CubLinux before. It seems…
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PHP7 – What’s New and Better in PHP?
In some of my previous posts, I discussed about using PHP as part of LAMP for web application development. Well, if you haven’t noticed it already, when I said PHP, I was talking about PHP version 5 or 5.x. However, now I’m going to specifically talk about PHP7 and what new features it brings to…
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GIT – A Simple Getting Started Guide For Git
There is a term called “Git” in IT field, which may not be much familiar to most people despite being one of the most useful and handy tools in the industry. So, in this post, I’m going to cover the introduction and getting started guide for Git so that more people will be able to understand…