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Install Perl from ActiveState on Ubuntu machine
I prefer ActiveState download for a beginner to have a Perl installation with compiled libraries for immediate execution of various Perl programs. You can grab a copy based on your OS from
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads/
Download the x86 .deb file for easy installation of ActivePerl on Ubuntu. (more…)
Network Time Protocol – NTP in Ubuntu
NTP is a TCP/IP protocol which helps synchronising time over a network. A client requests the current time from a server (identified , and uses it to set its own clock.
The following article on Ubuntu help guide will get you started on setting the NTP protocol
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/NTP.html (more…)
How to install SMTP server on Ubuntu?
Making your Ubuntu server deliver email to external world is a two step simple process.
Step 1:
sudo apt-get install postfix
The above command is the first step in the process of setting the mail server.
Step 2:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix
This step involves further SMTP configuration which involves setting up the mail server information and how it communicates with the external world. Depending on the needs you could play with the settings.
Further articles to continue, regarding how you could exploit further on this topic.
Ubuntu: Delete group or user in Ubuntu
Delete a user in Ubuntu
sudo userdel -r <username>
Delete a group in ubuntu
sudo groupdel <groupname>
How to find the version of your Ubuntu machine?
At times, you may across a situation where you need to know the version of Ubuntu to carry on with installing some applications. There are two ways to find out the version of Ubuntu running on your machine. (more…)
How to have desired fonts shape the content of your web design?
sIFR comes in place to hand you different fonts using Flash and CSS. With CSS3 you could replace titles with any font you want. The text is search engine friendly and users can cut and paste the text as they expect. There are nice tutorials and video blogs that help you get started with ease.
Easy, elegant tutorial on sIFR
http://designintellection.com/2008/this-is-how-you-get-sifr-to-work/
Follow the above tutorial and you can replace the needed font to have content with your desired font.
Video based tutorial
http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/39-how-to-use-sifr-3/
To download the sIFR nightlies, visit
http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/nightlies/
All you need to do is create the “swf” flash file or to download it from one of the available websites and then to configure the javascript, css files to make this work.
Happy sIFRing!!!
Linux: .htaccess and custom error messages
When we create a domain and would like to have custom error messages for the sites that we build .htaccess file comes in handy.
There may be errors related to site access sucha as 401 – Unauthorized access, 404 – Document Not Found, 500 – Internal Server Error. To handle such error you can create a separate folder called “errors” for the site which will have the files error401.html, error404.html, error500.html each bearing the custom messages that you would like to have it published via the web. (more…)
Linux UBUNTU .htaccess Password Protect
In Ubuntu server, .htaccess file access is disabled by default. Apache suggests in general that .htaccess be disabled if the users have access to the server’s configuration files.
There may be cases when users do not have access to Apache’s configuration setting files or some acute cases where users run multiple applications which might need different access controls at private and public levels. (more…)
UBUNTU Basics: Creating user authentication
User authentication in *nix based system involves creating username and password for users to provide them access to directories or files. There are two steps involved in providing user authentication.
1) Creating user name and password file
2) Password protecting directories or files (more…)
Ubuntu user account creation, root privilege assignment tips
After you login as a user in Ubuntu machine, you can go to the root account by typing
user@myhost:~# sudo -s
It will ask for the password of the current user and once you finish typing in the password, you are in the root user account. (more…)
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