30 Handy Bash Shell Aliases For Linux / Unix / Mac OS X
An bash alias is nothing but the shortcut to commands. The alias command allows the user to launch any command or group of commands (including options and filenames) by entering a single word. Use...
View ArticleLinux / Unix Desktop Fun: Text Mode ASCII-art Box and Comment Drawing
Boxes command is a text filter and a little known tool that can draw any kind of ASCII art box around its input text or code for fun and profit. You can quickly create email signatures, or create...
View ArticleShell Script Wrapper Examples: Enhance the Ping and Host Commands
SShell script wrappers can make the *nix command more transparent to the user. The most common shell scripts are simple wrappers around the third party or system binaries. A wrapper is nothing but a...
View ArticleUnix / Linux: See Colourised Filesystem Disk Space Usage
The pydf command displays the amount of used and available space on your file systems, just like df command, but in colors. The output format is completely customizable. This is a little known tool...
View ArticleHowTo: Use Nginx As Reverse Proxy Server
Nginx is an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server. You can use nginx for a load balancing and/or as a proxy solution to run services from inside those machines through your host’s single...
View ArticleConfigure Lighttpd Web Server To Use NFS Shared Static Files
The Lighttpd web server is responsible for providing access to static content via the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. In this example, I’m going to install and use the Lighttpd web server and set DocumentRoot...
View ArticleHowTo: Configure Apache Web Server To Use NFS Shared HTML+PHP5 Files
The Apache web server is responsible for providing access to dynamic content via the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. In this example, I’m going to install and use the Apache 2 web server + php5 safely and set...
View ArticleConfigure Memcached Distributed Memory Caching System
Memcached can speed up database driven dynamic web site. It must be deployed within trusted network where vm01 and vm02 clients may freely connect to our server. You need to type the following...
View ArticleLinux: Creating a Network File System (NFS) Share For Apache / Lighttpd /...
Creating a Network File System (NFSv4.0) shared network resource is exactly like creating any other shared network resource in Linux or Unix for Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx web server. You need to type...
View ArticleHowTo: Run Network Service Per System / VM Instance To Improve Overall...
A web stack is nothing but collection of many open source software such as an operating system, Web server, database server, server side programming language. The most commonly known web stacks is...
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