Today’s blog post is fairly different from the blog posts that I have been writing. It’s about a public meetup that I did which was organized by ISC2 Colombo chapter. The topic was ‘Application High Availability for Operational Continuity’. No sooner the topic was selected I knew that It was an interesting topic for me and for the audience ;-) The ...
So mod_proxy This module implements a proxy/gateway for Apache. It implements proxying capability for AJP13 (Apache JServe Protocol version 1.3), FTP, CONNECT (for SSL), HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, and HTTP/1.1. The module can be configured to connect to other proxy modules for these and other protocols. This post also can be named as “How to setup a proxy passer(ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse) in Apache2″ because today ...
So X11 Forwarding! Hey there! How’s it going? Today we are going to focus on how to run an application that requires a graphic interface on your Ubuntu server where typically Ubuntu server does not come with GUI. Let’s map your Desktop GUI to the remote server by using X forwarding, It is easy to accomplish X forwarding on Ubuntu using X11 ...
How’s it going tech folks? I have been using NoSQL for a while now and I like it. So today I’m going to talk about how to deploy (Install) a Couchbase database cluster on Ubuntu. What’s Couchbase Couchbase is one of the most popular NoSQL databases. If you are wondering why NoSQL? Read here. Anyway what they say about Couchbase is “Develop ...
What Monit? Let me explain about the utility. It has the ability to start a process if it is not running, restart a process if not responding and stop a process if uses high resources. In simple words it’s a helpful program that automatically monitors and manages server programs/resources to ensure that they stay online 24/7 while maintaining the correct file size, ...
Hybrid mobile application development is a hot topic these days. PhoneGap is one of the frameworks that can be used to develop hybrid mobile apps. If you are new to hybrid mobile application development read this post. You only have to follow these steps to have a PhoneGap app up and running in your Ubuntu. Before that, What’s PhoneGap PhoneGap is a ...
What’s MySQL Replication Replication enables data from one MySQL database server (the master) to be replicated to one or more MySQL database servers (the slaves). So MySQL Master-Master Replication In other words MySQL replication is the process by which data stored in a database, will be copied to a second server’s database. This is called MySQL master-slave replication. Today I’m ...
So Nikto!!! Is your site safe on the internet? Are you sure? Let’s make sure you are safe from hackers. Today we’ll divine into a tool which will help us to stay safe. The name is Nikto. It is a vulnerability scanner else can be called as a security testing tool that scans web servers for vulnerabilities and other known issues. ...
Back once again it’s Linux time. This post also can be named as how to set up a floating IP between load balancers or how to set up a shared IP for between load balancers or how to configure a high available load-balancers. what happens here we are using keepalived, which allows us to setup HAProxy nodes to create active/passive cluster so that ...
Indexes! Whooh! Let me tell you what my experience about indexing a table. I had a SQL query which took 8-9 secs to fetch the data I want. After indexing now it only takes 1 sec. Interesting right. Let’s go through what’s indexing and how to and when to and stuff. You could find technical explanation of indexes in ...
Connect to the WordPress database via the phpMyAdmin tool at your web hosting account. Once in phpMyAdmin select the WordPress database & Open the SQL tab (look at the top navigation bar). write the following SQL query: UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here‘ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username“; “new_password_here” – replace this with the new password you wish to ...
Let’s take a look at what’s regular expression and it’s use in the development environment. 1st of all regular expression is a small piece of code which looks for pattern(s). In web development environment Regex are used in the .htaccess file most frequently. Regexs are supposed to make developer’s life easier but most of the time it’s the other way ...
Add this code where you want to put the custom search. Settings : action – set the site url cat field value – should be set to the category id whatever you want to search in(here its 5) <form method="get" id="search form" action="http://localhost/wordpress_test/"> <div> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="hidden" value="5" name="cat" id="scat" /> <input type="submit" value="search"/> </div> ...
So you have a larger mySQL database of more than 30 MB size, you want to move it to a new server, and you’re unable to import your database to the new server via phpMyAdmin, due to its time and size limitations. But don’t worry, its not a big problem. It can be done using a tool BigDump Here are ...
So Nikto!!! Is your site safe on the internet? Are you sure? Let’s make sure you are safe from hackers. Today we’ll divine into a tool which will help us to stay safe. The name is Nikto. It is a vulnerability scanner else can be called as a security testing tool that scans web servers for vulnerabilities and other known issues. ...
So WSO!!! By attempting any of the things listed in this blog post you accept full responsibility for your actions and I will not be held responsible whatsoever. This tutorial is strictly for penetration testers only. Today we are going to talk about a slightly different topic. I’m pretty sure you are going to love it if you are techie ...
