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Linux Security Notes – AIDE File Integrity

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Enviornment) is a tool to check the file integrity. It is an opensource substitute for TRIPWIRE. It allows to take snapshots of all the major configuration files, binaries as well as libraries stats. It helps to find which binaries have been changed in case of compromisation of the system. More: continued [...]

The config.status File – Apache

After you use the configure script, Apache is ready to be compiled. A set of files assists Apache during the compilation process. One such file is the config.status file. This file is created automatically when you run the configure script. However, if this file exists, it is overwritten when you specify the ./configure command. The [...]

How to test the Apache configuration file httpd.conf

After making changes to the Apache configuration file, it is a good practice to test the configuration before implementing it. To test the Apache configuration file for errors: apachectl configtest If the configuration file is fine, this command will return Syntax Ok. Otherwise, it will return detailed information about the error discovered. If apachectl is [...]

What is the use of .htaccess file

.htaccess files (or “distributed configuration files”) provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof. Note: If you want to call your .htaccess file something else, you [...]

How to Share Your Own Computer’s Stuff with the Network

To share a file or folder with your fellow computer users, move the file into your Shared Documents folder, which lives in your My Computer window. (You must move or copy a file into the Shared Documents folder; shortcuts don’t always work.) After you place your file or folder into your Shared Documents folder, it [...]

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 Change the default files save format from .docx to .doc in word 2007

Docx is the default file extension for saving documents in word 2007. These docx documents are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents   Let’s see how can you change the default file save format to .doc which is widely supported in the backward version of office 2007. 1. Open Microsoft Word, click office icon at the [...]

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 Optimize Your Hard Drive and Registry with CCleaner

There are plenty of system optimizers and registry cleaners out there, but today I will tell you about a great free one called CCleaner.  It is very simple to use and can drastically increase your computers performance. CCleaner can delete all unnecessary temporary files from most browsers including IE, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera as [...]

How to increase PageRank In WordPress by Putting NoFollow Relationship

Blogroll in WordPress displays a list of blogger’s favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog. Blogroll provides links to external blogs in easily managed way. Some webmasters also use Blogroll to display backlinks to other external sites for link exchange or link buying. In reality, links added by WordPress blogroll is actually useless textlinks [...]

Script to backup all mysql database and upload to FTP

In this howto I will show you a simple bash script that dump ALL mysql databases on your server compressed to GZIP and then make a nice tar.gz file with them and upload it to the FTP of your choice.

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 [...]

How to View Microsoft PowerPoint files

Don’t have the software to view slide shows created in Microsoft PowerPoint? Try the free PowerPoint Viewer found at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en Download and install the software: 1. Click the Download button and save the file to your My Documents folder 2. Double-click the PPViewer.exe program file in your My Documents folder to start the setup [...]