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How To Grant/Deny Access to Particular Web Files Using Apache

When browsing web files and directory, most bots, without consideration to .htaccess restrictions, have the capability to crawl and sniff files and folders located under your web root folder, even if these files and folders were not visually displayed from your web pages. Take for an example, you displayed a file under http://domain.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/page.html Most bots [...]

How to access iPhones remotely using OpenSSH

A jail broken Apple iPhone with OpenSSH installed is accessible over the internet using ssh and the default root password “alpine“. You can use a short script to find IP addresses that have port 22 open and try to login. You can run this script from your Mac or any Linux machine. #!/bin/shfourth=1 third=0 mkdir [...]

How to create a boot CD with the specified kernel in Linux

The kernel in Fedora Core 2 and higher is too big to fit on a floppy disk, so you’ll have to create a boot CD instead. Here are the steps. 1. Each installed kernel has a dedicated subdirectory for its modules in the /lib/modules directory. Get a listing of this directory. Here there are two [...]

How to Configure Advanced TCP/IP settings in Windows

The Advanced TCP/IP dialog will allow you to configure settings relative to DNS, WINS and specify multiple IP Addresses and Gateways. To bring up the Advanced TCP/IP Settings dialog, simply right click the desired connection from the Network Connections folder, and choose properties to open the Properties dialog of the selected connection. Now select Internet [...]

How to access your server via SSH

If you are unfamiliar with SSH this is ok. This is a simple explanation to get you to a command prompt on your new server or existing server. Simply download a program called “putty.exe” if you are using Windows. If you are using MAC you will need to jump in to the shell and follow [...]

Nokia Open Source Web browser for S60 Smartphones

Nokia unveiled the new Web browser for its world leading smartphone software, S60 platform aimed to provide smartphone users with a true Web experience when browsing full Web pages on the Internet using a smartphone. “The new Web browser for S60 is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple’s Safari Web Kit, the industry’s smallest [...]

How to setup VNC-Sever with no hassles with vnc-ltsp-config

To allow all users login screen access via a vnc-client to the system, you can use vnc-ltsp-config and xinetd. When a vnc-client connects to one of the configured ports, the user will be given a default standard login screen. The sessions will *not* be persistent. When a user logs out, the session is gone. Note: [...]

A brief to various iptables commands

We will use an example based approach to examine the various iptables commands. In this first example, we will create a very simple set of rules to set up a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall that will allow all outgoing connections but block all unwanted incoming connections:

How to Install and Configure iptables under CentOS

Working with iptables from the command line requires root privileges, so you will need to become root for most things we will be doing. Iptables should be installed by default on all CentOS 3.x, 4.x and 5.x installations. You can check to see if iptables is installed on your system by: $ rpm -q iptables [...]

How to Allow or Deny countries with Apache htaccess

First you need to understand the meaning of these two rules in the htaccess file. If you set “deny” in the script for countries “US,CA” (USA and Canada), all traffic from USA or Canada will be blocked. On the other hand, if you set “allow” it will only accept traffic from these two countries, all [...]

How to Install Elgg – An open, flexible social networking engine

Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea. Elgg is open source. That means, when you use Elgg, you have [...]

Database Replication in MySQL – Step by Step Guide

Replication enables data from one MySQL database server (called the master) to be replicated to one or more MySQL database servers (slaves). Replication is asynchronous – your replication slaves do not need to be connected permanently to receive updates from the master, which means that updates can occur over long-distance connections and even temporary solutions [...]

How to Install and Configure NNTP Server (IIS 6.0)

Access to the news server can be open to everyone, or it can require user authentication. The NNTP service allows fine tuning of security policies and is capable of handling a large number of virtual domains and independent server instances on a single computer. The NNTP service is not installed by default. You must install [...]