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Color Wheel for Web Designers

Posted on September 1, 2014 by admin

Here are some useful site for web designers to select colors for web sites. https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ http://mudcu.be/sphere/

Ubuntu 14.04 remove places from Nautilus file manager

Posted on August 31, 2014 by admin

By default Ubuntu file manager Nautilus shows many items like Home Desktop Documents Pictures Music Videos Trash I want to remove “Music” and “Videos” entry. Mainly because my Video collection is too large and is on a different disk, i

Google Released Chrome 37 with Critical Security fix

Posted on August 28, 2014 by admin

Google Chrome 37 released with 50 security fixes. This security updated include critical security fix. [$30000][386988] Critical CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: A special reward to lokihardt@asrt for a combination of bugs in V8, IPC, sync, and extensions that can lead to remote

Securing MySQL after installation

Posted on August 28, 2014 by admin

Newer verisons of MySQL/MariaDB/PerconaServer provide command line utility to secure MySQL installation. You can run This will set password for MySQL server. Remote test database, remove users with no password, make mysql only accessible from localhost.

CentOS 7 Apache Error AH01630: client denied by server configuration

Posted on August 28, 2014 by admin

I have setup a web site on CentOS 7 Apache server. With following configuration. When i visit the web site i get permission denied error. On checking apache error log, i found This is because CentOS 7 use Apache 2.4

Installing MySQL on CentOS 7

Posted on August 28, 2014 by admin

CentOS 7 stopped shipping MySQL as it is owned by Database company Oracle, many doubt Oracle will use MySQL to sell their Oracle Database. Now CentOS ship with MariaDB. It is created by creator of MySQL. He sold MySQL to

MediaWiki Upgrade error PHP Fatal error: Class ‘DOMDocument’ not found

Posted on August 28, 2014 by admin

When upgrading MediaWiki on WebHostingNeeds.com, i got following error This is fixed by installing php-domxml module and restarting apache.

Varnish Cache Error: Package: varnish-4.0.1-1.el6.x86_64 (varnish-4.0)

Posted on August 27, 2014 by admin

When installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 6.5 server, i got following error. This is fixed by enabling EPEL repository. Now install varnish with command It will work now.

Installing OpenVPN Server in Ubuntu/CentOS

Posted on August 27, 2014 by admin

OpenVPN allow you to browse internet securely. All connection from your PC are encrypted. OpenVPN have two parts OpenVPN Server OpenVPN Cleint OpenVPN Server You need to install this on a dedicated or VPS that is always connected to internet.

Happy birthday Linux, Linux turns 23 today

Posted on August 25, 2014 by admin

Linux developed on On 25 August, 1991 by 21 year old Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds turns 23 today. 23 year ago, Linux Torvalds sent out following message to announce birth of Linux Operating system. What would you like to see