The Helpdesk For I.T. Administrators
A default installation of PHP and Apache on a Ubuntu 12.04 will set a maximum upload limit of 2MB. Quite often you will want to increase this to a larger size. How high you set this limit will depend on your requirements. This howto guide will step you through the process to increase the PHP …
Varnish has the ability to reverse proxy to multiple backend servers if needed. This howto guide outlines the configuration settings needed to redirect requests to different backends. In our example, we have a web application backend (referenced to as “webapp”), and also a separate backend that just contains static content such as images, javascript, style …
This howto guide will go through the process of adding a new drive to a LVM array.
This howto guide will go through the process of moving data off a disk in a LVM array, so it can be physically removed from the system.
This howto outlines the steps to optimize a MySQL table, and shrink the physical file size of the file. This can be useful if you have removed a large number of records from a table, but the actual file size of that table on the disk hasn’t changed.
Taking a screenshot on an Acer Iconia A500 tablet, running Android 4.0 or later, is easy, once you work out how to do it. Unfortunately its not very easy to work out how to do it without reading it somewhere, or someone telling you how.
I recently came across a process on a Ubuntu installation by the name of “whoopsie”. I wasn’t sure what this was, or why it was running on the machine. Upon some investigation, I found that it’s the Ubuntu crash database submission daemon. I had no need to submit error reports back to Ubuntu, so I …
A default installation of MySQL server on a Linux machine will only listen for connections on the local interface (localhost or 127.0.0.1), so any remote connections can not be established. This how to article outlines the steps to change the configuration to listen on a specific, or all interfaces on the machine.
Ever wanted to run your own usenet search engine? This howto will go through the steps required to install the Newznab usenet indexer on Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 was used for this guide, however all current versions of Ubuntu should be the same.
This howto will outline the steps to create a new blank MySQL database.