Linux: remove unwanted services from the system start-up

Default there are lots of services and programs which are starting to work while system start-up. It’s time to disable these unwanted.

Listening Network Ports

Two simple… but so useful commands for all kind of linux/unix servers administrators.

Build firewall on server (ubuntu)

I would like to secure my VPS. That’s why I had to find some more informations about firewalls. The most interesting idea… “firewall” via iptales. However managing iptables is a litlle bit complicated, so I decided to use UFW.

I’m building mail server

I want to build mail server on my VPS (ubuntu). What I want to have is: multiple domains and users; users’ accounts in MySQL database; Courier package to control my pop and imap access to the emails. So.. let’s do it.

Subversion server, with web access on ubuntu

Today I will present how to install subversion server (+ repository) with the apache module and web access protected by password.

PHP via apache on the server with nginx and django

I already described how to configure WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi), as well as how to configure php-fpm on server with nginx. Now… I will try to describe alternative way to serve php scripts on the machine with python apps (django) and nginx installed – via installed apache.