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How to Configure Web Logs in Apache

Apache is one of the most — if not the most — powerful open source solutions for Website operations. You will find that Apache’s Web logging features are flexible for the single Website or for managing numerous domains requiring Web log analysis. For the single site, Apache is pretty much configured for logging in the [...]

How To Install phpBB Forum in 5 Steps

Introduction to phpBB phpBB is a stable, open-source, bulletin board script available as a free download from phpbb.com [2]. It allows you to set up an unlimited number of forums and categories. Users, moderators and user groups with varying permissions can be created. In short, it provides everything you’d expect of a bulletin board service. [...]

How to Configure a Cisco Router

Configuring your Cisco Router If you have just turned on the router, it will be completely unconfigured. If it is already configured, you may want to view its current configuration. Even if it has not been previously configured, you should familiarize yourself with the show commands before beginning to configure the router. Enter privileged mode [...]

How to use the EventCombMT utility to search event logs for account lockouts

EventCombMT is a multithreaded tool that you can use to search the event logs of several different computers for specific events, all from one central location. You can configure EventCombMT to search the event logs in a very detailed fashion. The following are some of the search parameters that you can specify: • Individual event [...]

How to Install and Partition a New Hard Drive in Windows XP

Installing and Partitioning a NEW Hard Drive: First, with your computer off, install your new hard drive. Next, start Windows XP and login using an administrator account. Once your at the desktop, click Start -> Run In the Run box type diskmgmt.msc and click OK. When the Disk management console wizard appears, proceed through the [...]

How to password protect a shared folder in Windows XP

f your looking to password protect a shared folder on your network, you’ve probably noticed that Windows XP doesn’t have any built in features allowing you to lock access to a folder via a password like previous Windows releases did. This means that anyone using the same workgroup or domain can access the files within [...]

How to automatically logon to Windows XP

Importent: By following this tutorial you are solely responsible for any damages or loss that could potentially occur. Proceed at your own risk! How to turn on Autologon in Windows XP: Click Start -> Run, type regedit, and click OK Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Next, find the DefaultUserName entry, double click it and [...]

How to Display your visitors IP address on your web-site

IP Address Tutorial: Step 1. Create a new.txt document on your desktop Step 2. Copy the following code into the new.txt document PHP: # <?php # $img_number = imagecreate(180,20); # $backcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,70,73,80); # $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,255,255,255); # imagefill($img_number,0,0,$backcolor); # $number = ” Your IP Address $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]“; #Imagestring($img_number,2,2,2,$number,$textcolor); #header(“Content-type: image/jpeg”); #imagejpeg($img_number); #?> (remove the hash) [...]

WordPress SEO Search Engine Optimization tips

Search Engine Optimizationor SEO works a bit differently for those of us using WordPress blogging software. In this article I will show you a few tips on how to optimize your personal WordPress blog to obtain a higher Pagerank. Pagerank is how search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo rate your site compared to other [...]

How to Install OTRS on a SuSE / Linux

Install the otrs.rpm with YaST (YaST2) or on the command line with rpm (what ever you prefer). Please be aware of the fact that OTRS needs some Perl modules which are not installed by default in a typical SuSE installation. So it might be a good idea to use YaST to install the rpm because [...]

Turn any PC into a NAS – NASLite

Are you looking for low cost and lightweight network storage for your office? NASLite offers a solution. It lets you create a NAS box out of your old hardware. You can even use a 486 machine, 16 MB RAM, floppy drive, one to four IDE hard drives and a network card for it. A floppy-based [...]

How To Install FreeNas

Introduction FreeNAS is an open source popular software appliance package that can turn a computer into a NAS appliance, or in easier terms: a file server. This guide shows the basic steps to prepare a server for use in a diskless LTSP environment. This document is correct as of FreeNAS v0.67.1. Full documentation on installing [...]

IIS 6.0 Security Best Practices

General Best Practices Log on with the least credentials. Log on to your computer using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the Run as command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. Reduce the attack surface. Disable all services you do not need, including IIS services such as FTP, [...]

How to Obtain and Backing Up SSL Certificates in Windows 2003

To issue your own server certificate Use Microsoft Certificate Services 2.0 to create a customizable service for issuing and managing certificates. You can create server certificates for the Internet or for corporate intranets, giving your organization complete control over certificate management policies. For more information, see Microsoft Certificate Services Help. -or- Use the Web Server [...]

How to Create Virtual Directories in IIS 6.0

Procedures To create a virtual directory by using IIS Manager In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, expand the Web Sites or FTP Sites folder, right-click the site or folder within which you want to create the virtual directory, point to New, and then click Virtual Directory. The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard appears. Click Next. [...]