Archive for November, 2009
Configure Squid using Webmin
There are two ways to install Squid. You can either install it from source by downloading it at the Squid
website, or you can use aptitude. We will go over using aptitude to install. To install Squid using aptitude
type the following command:
$sudo aptitude install squid3
This will download and install the needed dependencies. Now install Webmin using [...]
Install ACT! 2009 Windows 7 32bit
As far as I know ACT! 2009 cannot be installed without problems on Windows 7 64bit.
How to save money by unnecessary ACT! upgrade!
Here is the procedure I used to install ACT! 2009 on Windows 7 32bit.
Here is exactly what I did. DO NOT RUN ACT! UNTIL THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY TO.
1. I browesed Windows Explorer to [...]
Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts, which also known as accelerator keys or hotkeys, are a finite set of one key or a combination of two or more keys that, when pressed, will invoke an operation or perform a task by operating system or application program running within the operating system, or simply activate and run a program.
Here’s the [...]
wget command
It is a common practice to manage UNIX/Linux/BSD server remotely over ssh
session.
As you manage servers, you need to download the software or other files.
When it comes to command line (shell prompt) wget the non-interactive downloader rules.
It supports http, ftp, https protocols along with authentication.
Download a single file using wget
$ wget http://www.domain.com/filename.gz
Force wget to download all [...]
Introduction
What is .htaccess?
In most linux web servers, .htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration.
The original purpose of .htaccess was to allow per-directory access control but, nowadays .htaccess can override many other configuration settings.
Change your default directory page
This is a command which allows you to specify a file that is to be loaded as your default page whenever a directory or url request is received
DirectoryIndex filename.html
This would cause filename.html to be treated as your default page, or default directory page.
You can also append other filenames to imply an order of preferance.
DirectoryIndex filename.html [...]