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Enable htaccess in Apache

Posted on October 3, 2017 by admin

To verify mod_rewrite is enabled in your Apache server, run On CentOS On Debian/Ubuntu If the command shows “rewrite_module”, you have rewrite module enabled on your Apache server. On CentOS servers, rewrite module is enabled by default. On Ubuntu/Debian, you

PHP Script to verify TLS 1.2

Posted on October 3, 2017 by admin

Many payment providers recently moved to more secure SSL protocol TLS 1.2. Many of these providers will sent you mail asking you to make sure your web server support TLS 1.2 Checklist: Preparing for the system upgrade to TLS 1.2

CentOS 7 PHP can’t sent email using mail function

Posted on October 3, 2017 by admin

On CentOS 7 server, PHP mail() function did not sent email. It always returned false. I used following test script to verify mail is working I checked the mails server log, found following error message Problem fixed by adding proper

php-fpm use socket

Posted on October 2, 2017 by admin

By default php-fpm listen on tcp port 9000. It is better to use socket instead of tcp as it is less overhead. To change, edit file Find Replace with Now edit nginx config. Find replace with Now restart nginx and

sar No such file or directory

Posted on October 1, 2017 by admin

When running sar on Ubuntu, i get error To fix, run This will ask you to activate cronjob for data collection. Select Yes. Now wait some time for cronjob to run, sar will work. See sar

Text Editor For Programmers

Posted on September 30, 2017 by admin

There was a time there where only few text editors available for programmers like Editplus, UltraEdit, etc.. they are all paid. Then come Sublime, that become very popular among programmers, it was light weight, coded in python, allowed extending its

Librem 5 Crowdfunded Linux Phone

Posted on September 30, 2017 by admin

Librem 5 is a crowdfunded linux based phone that focus on security and privacy. Phone will be based on popular Linux Distribution Debian offers world’s first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication. As of today, the campaign

yum stuck forever

Posted on September 27, 2017 by admin

When i run any yum command on a server it get stuck for ever. I run yum with strace It get stuck with following message from strace Got it fixed by deleting the lock files. See yum