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…
About MariaDB MariaDB one of the most popular and an enhanced drop-in replacements for MySQL. It was created and is maintained by the original developers of MySQL. MariaDB is very interesting because if is fast, scalable and more robust than MySQL.…
Percona is a free, fully compatible and high performance drop-in replacement for MySQL server. Percona supports high performance hardware and provides improved reliability and performance. To install first we need to add the repo: wget (lsb_release -sc)_all.deb Next, install the…
Installing Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 is pretty straight forward, start off by updating the sources on your box: sudo apt-get update Issue the following to install nginx: sudo apt-get install nginx Start nginx by issuing the following: sudo service nginx…
If you’ve installed Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop you won’t be able to remotely ssh in to the box until you install the ssh server. To do so, issue the following at the terminal: sudo apt-get install ssh That’s it, try ssh’ing…
Installing Varnish on CentOS 7.2 is pretty straight forward, start off by adding the epel-release repo. yum install epel-release With the repo added install Varnish yum install varnish Start Varnish service varnish start Start Varnish at startup chkconfig varnish on…
With CentOS 7 the process of adding the Epel repo has been simplified, you now install the repo with the CentOS package manager yum. With this new method, you don’t need to worry about manually re-adding the repo if it has gone out…
Mod Security isn’t ready for NGINX yet, even though the ModSec website says a stable version for NGINX is available it still lacks important features. Because of this I’ve had to stick to Apache, but why not then make use…
I’ve found that if you insist on installing Odoo on CentOS, like I do, doing it on CentOS 7 is the easiest and quickest way of going about it. If you have a fresh CentOS 7 minimal install that’s great,…