With Ubuntu 18.04 onwards, configuring IP addresses stands different from the older versions. When comparing with the previous versions the Ubuntu is using a new utility called Netplan – another order line arrange design utility, to arrange an IP address. Netplan has been presented by Ubuntu engineers in Ubuntu 17.10 where we no longer use the “interfaces” file to configure IP address but does the task using a YAML file with all default arrangement documents found under /etc/netplan/ directory. In this blog, we will check on how to design static …
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Apache Struts 2 is an open-source development framework for Java applications. On March 6th, 2017, a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-5638 in Apache Struts 2 was made public. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution with malicious Content. This particular vulnerability can be exploited if the attacker sends a request to upload a file to a vulnerable server that uses a Jakarta-based plugin to process the upload request. The attacker can then send malicious code in the Content-Type header to execute the command on a vulnerable server. …
HAProxy stands for High Availability Proxy. It is a very fast and reliable solution for high availability and load balancing. HAProxy is used as TCP/HTTP Load Balancer and for proxy Solutions. The HAProxy application will share the workload with multiple servers. Steps for Installation and Configuring HAProxy =========== Step 1: Before proceeding with the installation of HAProxy in the server, we need to install the epel repository on our system depending on the operating system version using the following command.
CloudLinux is one of the widely used Operating System nowadays due to the high-level stability and advanced server security it provides, which makes it the first preference for hosting providers, especially in a shared hosting environment. LVE (Lightweight Virtual Environment) is a kernel-level technology developed by the CloudLinux team. It is lightweight and transparent. The goal of LVE is to make sure that no single website can bring down your web server. The kernel makes sure that all LVEs get a fair share of the server’s resources, and that no …
The Zend OpCache provides faster PHP execution through opcode caching and optimization. It improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in the shared memory. Installing Zend OPCache on PHP 5.3 or 5.4 1. Login to SSH on your server 2. Type the following commands: #cd /usr/local/src #wget http://pecl.php.net/get/ZendOpcache # to get the latest (master) build do the following instead:
Icinga is a fork of Nagios monitoring system. There are lots of changes and upgrades compared to Nagios, especially in version 2. The main visible difference is UI which is built on ext js. Other significant differences are in hosts and services definitions. Icinga2 designed to monitor large complex environments. Pre-requisites We need to make sure to install a LAMP stack and epel repository on the CentOS7 server for other dependency application which will support icinga2 . Icinga2 will collect the service information based on the monitoring plugins, so we …
The International Earth Rotation & Reference Systems Service (IERS) has mentioned that an extra second is to be added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at 23:59:59 on 30 June 2015 and this is to make sure the alignment of astronomical and atomic time. Coordinated Universal Time, UTC is one of the basic time conventions used by most of the world’s local time zones. This UTC time convention has been derived from a bunch of atomic clocks that are distributed across several countries globally. The rotation of our earth is not …
The Config Server Mail Queue is an addon feature available with cPanel/WHM which provides with a full-featured interface to the cPanel exim email queues from within WHM. The add-on feature provides with an interface to the cPanel user accounts email configuration without having to log in to their accounts. It is domain-based rather than account-based. Features View, edit and delete email accounts, email forwarders and email filters. View and modify email account quotas Modify email account passwords List only email accounts that are over quota Modify Outgoing Mail Hourly Limits …
Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs alongside any Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux. Wine is an implementation of the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) library, acting as a bridge between the Windows program and Linux. When a Windows program tries to perform a function, Wine will translate that program’s instruction and make it suitable for Linux. The Wine development release 1.7.35 is now available. New features in this release: – Beginnings of support for OpenGL core contexts. – Initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite. – Some more …