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What is Vagrant? Vagrant is an open-source virtualization manager, used for managing VM(Virtual Machine) and their configurations with few commands. It is supported by VirtualBox, Docker, Hyper-V as well as VMWare virtualization. Vagrants helps managing the configurations of VM created using any of the mentioned virtualization. Its available for Mac OS X,… Continue Reading Simple guide to start using Vagrant with VirtualBox

Date Posted:25-03-2017 In our previous posts, we have seen how to hide webserver information on nginx information. Now, in this post we will show on how to hide server information on Apache webserver. If there is no webserver installed on the host, please follow the below post to install apache… Continue Reading Hide WebServer Information on Apache

Date Posted:09-03-2017 There are multiple ways to perform load testing of webserver and websites. Most commonly used load testing are jmeter and ab benchmarking testing. We are going to explain on how to perform ab benchmarking load testing on a website. Assumption: We will perform ab benchmark testing on Ubuntu… Continue Reading Ab Benchmark utility to perform Load Testing

Date Posted:05-03-2015 This post explains on how to redirect all http request to https on nginx server which are behind load balancer. Assumption: Ubuntu or Centos Nginx Webserver- If nginx is not installed on the serer, refer the following URL to install. Implementation: Let’s assume that the server has only… Continue Reading Redirect http to https on nginx behind load balancers

Date Posted:03/03/2017 One of our VM didnt come up and we tried to restart network service and we get the following below error. Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization Normally, this error occurs when there is a mismatch of mac address in the network configuration file… Continue Reading Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization

Date Posted:06-01-2017 In many scenario, we don’t want particular page to be crawled by bots or we want page to be restricted for particular users. In this post, we gonna explain on how to add authorization page on nginx webserver. Incase, if the server doesn’t have nginx installed, please follow… Continue Reading Enable Authorization(password protected) page on nginx – Ubuntu

This post covers 2 section which helps to boost the website performance. As we know, nginx is fast webserver and we are going to improve the performance by tweaking few more parameters on nginx. If the server doesn’t have nginx installed then follow the post . Assumption: Nginx webserver Centos or… Continue Reading Enable Expires Headers, gzip compression on nginx

In this post, we are gonna explain on how to install nginx, Php, Mariadb on Ubuntu 16.04.1. We have used AWS ubuntu server on this article.  apt-get install nginx Start the nginx service. systemctl start nginx Enable the service on startup so that it will get automatically started whenever the… Continue Reading Install Nginx, Php, MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04.1

Introduction There are situations where you may need to securely access resources on a remote network without setting up a traditional VPN. SSH tunnelling provides a simple and secure way to route your traffic through a remote server using an encrypted connection. Prerequisites Before you begin, ensure you have: Implementation… Continue Reading Tunnel Setup on Windows Without a VPN Using PuTTY

Organizations often need an internal messaging platform for team communication without relying on external services. After evaluating multiple options, we found that Openfire provides a simple and reliable way to deploy a chat server within a private network or over the internet. This guide walks through installing and configuring Openfire… Continue Reading Deploy your own chat application on network