Yum, the CentOS package manager can be a real pain at times. I’ve seen Yum download packages at crawling speeds of 5kBps, that’s right. To fix this is fairly straightforward, given you have the the yum-fastestmirror plugin installed, if not…
CentOS is really slow to update versions of software’s it maintains so we’ll have to add an external repo to install PHP 5.6 on our server. Make sure you backup everything on your server. Start off by removing any previous…
ownCloud is a great project which let’s you create your own self-hosted Dropbox / Google Drive alternative. It’s also great for organizations which want to manage assets rather than just holding them on drives with no way of finding data efficiently. Installing…
Installing the latest stable version of Mariadb, v. 10.1, is pretty straight forward. Start off by heading over to the repo configurator and getting the links for your version of Ubuntu: LINK For us the commands were as follows, enter them…
To add /modify the static IP address of your ubuntu installation follow the steps below: Find out which interface is connected to the internet, issue the following: user@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig enp0s3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:1d:33:18 inet addr:192.168.123.153 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr:…
On a newly installed WHM/cPanel server if you access a folder inside a domain which doesn’t have a index page in it, the server will throw you the complete directly structure. This can be bad as this exposes information about…
We’ll be using a freshly installed server with Ubuntu Server 16.04, Ubuntu Desktop should also work. By default Ubuntu 16.04 ships with Python 3 but you won’t be able to call it if you issue the following at shell: python…
So far only one of our systems received the Windows 10 Anniversary update (build 1607). This had us a little antsy, thankfully Microsoft gives you the option to force install the update. Here’s how: First make sure you don’t already…
The Windows anniversary update is finally out, this is good news. This means the new Windows Subsystem for Linux aka BASH is now available for non-Windows Insider users. Before you start, you need to make sure that you are updated to…
Let’s start off with a freshly installed server running Ubuntu 16.04 (server). This article assumes that you have Apache and PHP installed already. Issue the following command at shell to install the base ImageMagick library: sudo apt-get install imagemagick The…