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How and where to mount in Linux

Mounting is done with the mount command. When mounting, you must tell the mount command what is the device or partition you want to mount and what is the mount point. The mount point must be a directory that already exists on your system. For example, to mount your floppy: $ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy In [...]

How to configure Virtual Hosting using Apache 2 on Ubuntu

Virtual Hosting allow web servers to host more than one website on a sing machine. This is how sharing hosting works. I become pretty handy as well while develloping different web project on the same machine and allows you to access to your local repository using addresses such as http://dev.mysite.com instead of http://localhost/~myuser/myproject/ :) . [...]

How to Build a diskette-based bandwidth management system – PicoBSD

Many users, despite having a good Net connection, complain about poor surfing and download speeds. While an organization could pay for additional bandwidth, a better option might be to manage the bandwidth they already have. There are numerous bandwidth management software tools available. In this article we will explore managing network bandwidth using the dummynet [...]

How to authenticate users against your Apache website by using MySQL

This tutorial will explain how to use a MySQL backend in order to authentication users against your Apache website. To achieve this we will use Apache2 and its auth_mysql module. Here, we will assume that you already have a website configured, up and running and that you also have access to a mysql server. The [...]