In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of vsftpd on your Ubuntu 14.04 server. For those of you who didn’t know, FTP stands for “file transfer protocol”, and it allows you to transfer files to a remote computer. The most common FTP server software for Ubuntu is the vsftpd package, which stands for “very secure FTP daemon.” It’s the default FTP package for ...
In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of Fping on your CentOS 6 server. For those of you who didn’t know, Fping is a program like ping which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol ( ICMP ) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file contai...
In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of Transmission on your CentOS 6 server. For those of you who didn’t know, Transmission BitTorrent Client features a simple interface on top of a cross-platform back-end. Transmission is licensed as a free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), with parts under the MIT License. Transmission, like any ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and enable EPEL Repo on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, EPEL(Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a repo developed by the Fedora project to ensure that there is a quality 3rd party package available for enterprise users such as people who are using RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and Scientific Linux. EPEL is a community effort to cr...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nginx With GeoIP Module on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, the Nginx GeoIP module for country and city geo-targeting can be installed in a few easy steps. It brings you a geo-targeting layer allowing you to show some parts of your websites, or even split traffic according to the geographical location of the end-users. By default, wh...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to Fix apt-get update GPG error BADSIG on Ubuntu or Debian. Today I encountered another apt-get update GPG error, this time I got the error message BADSIG : GPG error: http://au.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com> After a few ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of HAProxy on your CentOS 6 server. For those of you who didn’t know, HAProxy is a free and open-source Linux application used for load balancing network traffic. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installati...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of ClamAV on your CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, ClamAV is an open-source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting viruses, malware, and other malicious threats on Linux. It’s easy to use and best for Linux based Web & Mail server. In this article, I will show you through the step by step installation...
In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of PPTP VPN on your CentOS 6 server. For those of you who didn’t know, The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a method for implementing virtual private networks. PPTP uses a control channel over TCP and a GRE tunnel operating to encapsulate PPP packets. The PPTP specification does not describe encryption or authenticat...
For those of you who didn’t know, Htop is an interactive and real-time system-monitor process-viewer written for Linux. It is designed to replace the Unix program top. It shows a frequently updated list of the processes running on a computer, normally ordered by the amount of CPU usage. Unlike top, htop provides a full list of processes running, instead of the top resource-consuming processes. H...