Archive for the ‘Hosting Tutorial’ Category

Running PHP scripts as shell scripts

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

As well as running PHP scripts via a web server such as Apache, you can also run PHP scripts from the command line (it’s also possible to write GUI apps with PHP using PHP-GTK, but I’ll maybe look at that another time). This post looks at the two ways you can run a PHP script [...]

How to install Webmin on Linux OS

Saturday, August 13th, 2011
How to install Webmin on Linux OS

If you have followed the instructions on Setting up LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL, and PHP) correctly, installing Webmin would be useful to manage your entire server using a web interface. Well teach you how to do it in a breeze. I will be using the IP address 192.168.0.10 for reference. You must change it to [...]

High CPU usage when SNMP is enabled in Cisco Routers

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Cisco Routers and Switches with L3 routing functions are seen to have problems with High CPU usage when SNMP is enabled. This can range anything from 15% to 40%. According to Cisco, these are low priority processes and other priority processes requiring CPU cycles are given priority over these processes and this level of CPU [...]

How to add/modify IP Address in Redhat Enterprise Linux

Thursday, July 28th, 2011
How to add/modify IP Address in Redhat Enterprise Linux

Adding the IP Address in Redhat Enterprise Linux can be done by using the netconfig tool or by editing the network-scripts or by using the ifconfig command. While this procedure is tested on Redhat Enterprise Linux, I’m sure it should work on CentOS, Fedora and older Redhat versions. Set IP Address using Netconfig Netconfig is [...]

Install PHP FastCGI MySql and PHPMyAdmin On IIS6

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

This is just a note to remind myself the process of installing PHP,MySql and PHPMyAdmin on IIS6 and Windows Server 2003. If it is of any use to you, that will be great. There are many ways to run php and mysql stack on windows, if you are from a background of linux, or as [...]

PHP 5 with IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 Tutorial

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

A few years back I wrote a simple tutorial on how to install and configure PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps. Back then things were not as straight forward as they turned out to be when I tried it again today on a different server setup. The following worked like [...]

How to Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC using VMware

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
How to Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC using VMware

Many computer shoppers choose to buy a Mac not only to use OS X, but Windows as well. That is one strong advantage that Macs have in the Mac vs PC war. Apple computers are capable of running Windows, either through Bootcamp or virtual machines. So, why aren’t Windows PC’s capable of running OS X? [...]