Requirements: Basic FTP skills PHP 4.3.0 or higher MySQL Database   Create a mysql database. If you are unfamiliar with how to create a mysql database, please contact your web host or search their support site. Please pay careful attention when creating a database and write down your database name, username, password, and host somewhere. [...]

If you are using Yahoo mail and plan to retrieve your messages using email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc, you might be a bit disappointed. Yahoo only allows customers of its Yahoo Mail Plus service to download their email via POP3. Having said that, you can still use your favorite email [...]

However, for most people, let’s be honest, illegally copied software is very common. Copying Adobe Photoshop instead of buying it probably doesn’t let you have nightmares. But are you really confident that you won’t ever have trouble for that? Not so sure, huh… Software makers are progressing and finding more and more ways to track [...]

This is a compilation of approx 70 cheat sheets for Linux users. There are a grip load of commands that Linux users have at hand which can seem very daunting to a novice. This collection will make Linux just a little less of a headache to learn. Suggestion: Look through all of them and then [...]

Any version numbers used in these examples are specific to the time when this documentation was written. You should generally use the most up to date versions of all software involved. That is, if there are newer versions of these packages available now, you’ll probably want to substitute the newer numbers in the examples below. [...]

Here you can download and install sitemap for your phpbb forum sites. The sitemap download link and installation instruction is given below. Installation: 1) Download sitemap_version_6.zip and decompress: sitemap_version_6.zip (931 Bytes) Downloaded 44 times 2) If Your PHPBB3 Forum is installed in the root folder, for instance at http://techgurulive.com then skip “a” a) modify the $folder or [...]

301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It’s not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the safest option. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”. [...]

Let’s admit, any PHP developer, at some point has “debugged” a PHP application by inserting several “echo” statements here and there. It’s easy and quick but it’s by far not the best way. For one, you can not and should not do anything like that on a production server. The last thing users need to [...]

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Lots of programmers like PHP for its ability to code and develop web applications fast. Code-debugging is a lot easier than with PERL or C. However, there is one thing a lot of developers are puzzled about, “How to run PHP Scripts with crontab?” Cron is normally available on all Unix and Linux distributions; if [...]

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. [...]

The network-to-network setup allows you to connect two office networks into one Virtual Private Network, while the Road Warrior connection secures a laptop’s telecommute to work. Our examples also show the basic procedure on the Linux Openswan side where another IPsec peer is in play.Shortcut to net-to-net.Shortcut to Road Warrior.

Openswan began as a fork of the now-defunct FreeS/WAN project, and continues to be released freely under the GNU General Public License. Unlike the FreeS/WAN project, it is not developed exclusively for the Linux operating system.

OpenVPN supports connections through an HTTP proxy, with the following authentication modes:
* No proxy authentication
* Basic proxy authentication
* NTLM proxy authentication
First of all, HTTP proxy usage requires that you use TCP as the tunnel carrier protocol. So add the following to both client and server configurations:

The lack of standards in this area means that most OSes have a different way of configuring daemons/services for autostart on boot. The best way to have this functionality configured by default is to install OpenVPN as a package, such as via RPM on Linux or using the Windows installer. Linux If you install OpenVPN [...]