Friday, January 19, 2018

How to Use System-Config-Samba on Ubuntu 16.04

System-config-samba is a GUI for managing samba shares and users. In a previous tutorial, I explained how to set up a Samba server on Ubuntu 16.04 from the command line , but the Samba configuration file can be confusing to beginners. So this tutorial is going to show you how to use a graphical...

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How to Use System-Config-Samba on Ubuntu 16.04

Friday, January 12, 2018

How to Set up Your Own Web Proxy on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

This tutorial shows you how to set up your own web proxy on Ubuntu 16.04. A web proxy is a website where a user enters a specific URL to unblock website. There are a multitude of web proxy scripts that can be used to set up your own web proxy. Glype and PHP-Proxy will be used in this...

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How to Set up Your Own Web Proxy on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Thursday, December 28, 2017

How to Install Multiple Versions of PHP on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

This tutorial shows you how to install multiple versions of PHP on Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 17.10 and let a particular Apache virtual host or Nginx server block use one of them. This is useful when you have multiple web applications on your server but one or two of them isn’t compatible with...

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How to Install Multiple Versions of PHP on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

How to Properly Enable HTTPS on Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

This tutorial shows you how to properly enable HTTPS on Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10. Google Chrome and Firefox have already begun marking non-encrypted web pages with password input box as being insecure. Eventually all HTTP web pages will be marked as insecure. HTTPS will b...

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How to Properly Enable HTTPS on Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

Monday, December 18, 2017

How to Compile PHP7.0/PHP7.1 From Source on Arch Linux

This tutorial shows you how to compile PHP7.0/PHP7.1 on Arch Linux and install it alongside PHP7.2. Arch Linux is a rolling-release distribution with the newest and greatest software. PHP7.2 landed in Arch Linux repository. Some web applications such as WordPress works well with PHP7.2, but...

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How to Compile PHP7.0/PHP7.1 From Source on Arch Linux

Saturday, December 16, 2017

How to Easily Boost Ubuntu 16.04/17.10 Network Performance by Enabling TCP BBR

This tutorial shows you how to enable TCP BBR on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10. TCP BBR is a TCP congestion control algorithm developed by Google. It tackles shortcomings of traditional TCP congestion control algorithms (Reno or CUBIC). According to Google, it can achieve orders of magnitude higher...

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How to Easily Boost Ubuntu 16.04/17.10 Network Performance by Enabling TCP BBR