nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:50:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 HowTo: Run Network Service Per System / VM Instance To Improve Overall Security Of A Web Stacks (LAMP)http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/run-different-network-services-on-separate-vm-systems.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/run-different-network-services-on-separate-vm-systems.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:58:06 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9008 A web stack is nothing but collection of many open source software such as an operating system, Web server, database server, server side programming language. The most commonly known web stacks is LAMP. It is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache Web server, MySQL database software and PHP (or sometimes Perl or Python). All of our security related tutorials recommends running different network services on separate systems or vm instance. Naturally, this limits the number of other services that can be cracked in the event that an attacker is able to successfully exploit a software flaw in one network service. This is also one of the most requested article via email. In this guide, I will explain how to setup a solution that can serve static content, dynamic content, database, and caching by running on separate servers or vm instance.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/run-different-network-services-on-separate-vm-systems.html/feed 8 Linux: Creating a Network File System (NFS) Share For Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx Web Serverhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-nfs-storage-for-apache-lighttpd-nginx-webserver.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-nfs-storage-for-apache-lighttpd-nginx-webserver.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:53:07 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9160 Creating a Network File System (NFSv4.0) shared network resource is exactly like creating any other shared network resource in Linux or Unix for Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx web server. You need to type the following commands on vm05 having an IP address 192.168.1.14.
This blog post is part in the "Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM" series.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-nfs-storage-for-apache-lighttpd-nginx-webserver.html/feed 3 Linux: Configure MySQL Database Serverhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-configure-mysql-database.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-configure-mysql-database.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:52:06 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9165 This vm node stores your data in RDBMS such as mysql or postgresql. In this setup, I'm going to use MySQL database server. You need to type the following commandss on vm04 having an IP address 192.168.1.13 only.
This blog post is part in the "Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM" series.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-configure-mysql-database.html/feed 2 Configure Memcached Distributed Memory Caching Systemhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/setting-up-memcached-on-centos-rhel-fedora-linux.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/setting-up-memcached-on-centos-rhel-fedora-linux.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:51:17 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9164 Memcached can speed up database driven dynamic web site. It must be deployed within trusted network where vm01 and vm02 clients may freely connect to our server. You need to type the following commands on vm03 having an IP address 192.168.1.12.
This blog post is part in the "Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM" series.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/setting-up-memcached-on-centos-rhel-fedora-linux.html/feed 3 HowTo: Configure Apache Web Server To Use NFS Shared HTML+PHP5 Fileshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-configure-apache-web-server.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-configure-apache-web-server.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:50:38 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9161 The Apache web server is responsible for providing access to dynamic content via the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. In this example, I'm going to install and use the Apache 2 web server + php5 safely and set DocumentRoot to vm05:/exports/html mounted at /var/www/html. You need to type the following commands on vm02 having an IP address 192.168.1.11.
This blog post is part in the "Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM" series.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-configure-apache-web-server.html/feed 3 Configure Lighttpd Web Server To Use NFS Shared Static Fileshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-configure-lighttpd-web-server.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-configure-lighttpd-web-server.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:48:54 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9163 The Lighttpd web server is responsible for providing access to static content via the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. In this example, I'm going to install and use the Lighttpd web server and set DocumentRoot to vm05:/exports/static mounted at /var/www/static. You need to type the following commands on vm01 having an IP address 192.168.1.10 only.
This blog post is part in the "Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM" series.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-configure-lighttpd-web-server.html/feed 2 HowTo: Use Nginx As Reverse Proxy Serverhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/using-nginx-as-reverse-proxy.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/using-nginx-as-reverse-proxy.html#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:47:14 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9166 Nginx is an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server. You can use nginx for a load balancing and/or as a proxy solution to run services from inside those machines through your host's single public IP address such as 202.54.1.1. In this post, I will explain how to install nginx as reverse proxy server for Apache+php5 domain called www.example.com and Lighttpd static asset domain called static.example.com. You need to type the following commands on vm00 having an IP address 192.168.1.1 only.
This blog post is part in the "Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM" series.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/using-nginx-as-reverse-proxy.html/feed 4 Unix / Linux: See Colourised Filesystem Disk Space Usagehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-bsd-pydf-command-in-colours.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-bsd-pydf-command-in-colours.html#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:47:03 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9158 The pydf command displays the amount of used and available space on your file systems, just like df command, but in colors. The output format is completely customizable.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-bsd-pydf-command-in-colours.html/feed 11 Shell Script Wrapper Examples: Enhance the Ping and Host Commandshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-bash-shell-script-wrapper-examples.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-bash-shell-script-wrapper-examples.html#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:20:08 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9155 Shell script wrappers can make the *nix command more transparent to the user. The most common shell scripts are simple wrappers around third party or system binaries. A wrapper is nothing but a shell script that includes a system command or utility. Linux and Unix like operating system can run both 32bit and 64bit specific versions of applications. You can write a wrapper script that can select and execute correct version on a 32bit or 64bit hardware platform. In cluster environment and High-Performance computing environment you may find 100s of wrapper scripts written in Perl, Shell, and Python to get cluster usage, setting up shared storage, submitting and managing jobs, backups, troubleshooting, invokes commands with specified arguments, sending stdout to stdout and stderr to stderr and much more. In this post, I will explains how to create a shell wrapper to enhance the basic troubleshooting tool such as ping and host.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-bash-shell-script-wrapper-examples.html/feed 11 Linux / Unix Desktop Fun: Text Mode ASCII-art Box and Comment Drawinghttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-draw-any-kind-of-boxes-around-text-editor.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-draw-any-kind-of-boxes-around-text-editor.html#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:20:22 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9123 Boxes command is a text filter and a little known tool that can draw any kind of ASCII art box around its input text or code for fun and profit. You can quickly create email signatures, or create regional comments in any programming language. This command was intended to be used with the vim text editor, but can be tied to any text editor which supports filters, as well as from the command line as a standalone tool. ]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-linux-draw-any-kind-of-boxes-around-text-editor.html/feed 12 FAQ Updates: June/11/2012http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/faq-updates-june112012.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/faq-updates-june112012.html#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:20:49 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=9114 Our FAQ section has been updated. Here are latest howtos:

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