today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 23, 2023

• How to Allow GET and POST Methods Only in Nginx

  The world of web server management comes with its fair share of security concerns. Among these is the need to restrict access to certain HTTP methods on your server to prevent potential unauthorized actions.

• Install CubeCart on Debian Linux

  In this guide, you’ll learn how to install and configure the latest version of the CubeCart e-commerce platform on Debian to create a free online store.

• Install osCommece on Debian Linux

  This tutorial will guide you on installing and configuring the osCommerce platform on Debian to create a free online shopping store.

• Deploy a Docker Swarm on Rocky Linux

  You may have heard recently that  has, in my opinion, gone against the heart and soul of open source.

• Fixing the “sudo apt-get: command not found” Issue in Linux 2023

  apt-get command is used to manage package in Ubuntu and other Debian based distribution.

• Install ProjectSend on Debian

  ProjectSend is a flexible, web-based, free and open source client file sharing platform written in the PHP programming language. The advantage of the platform is that it is a self-hosted application that can be deployed in your own Linux environment with Apache web servers, PHP programming language interpreter and MariaDB database management system...

• Install MediaWiki on Debian

  In this guide, we will learn how to install and configure the MediaWiki platform in Debian Linux to create online wiki websites.

• A Comprehensive Guide to SNMP Enumeration in Kali Linux: Using snmpwalk and snmpenum

• How to Setup Zabbix and integrate it into Grafana

  Zabbix is an open-source monitoring tool for network services, hardware, servers, and applications. Designed to track and monitor the status of your system and servers.

• How To Install Transmission on Debian 12

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Transmission on Debian 12. For those of you who didn’t know, Transmission is designed to offer a user-friendly experience while maintaining essential features for efficient torrenting.

• How To Install BalenaEtcher on Debian 12

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install BalenaEtcher on Debian 12. BalenaEtcher is a cross-platform application built with Electron, empowering users to flash disk images effectively. Unlike conventional methods, which can be cumbersome and prone to errors, BalenaEtcher simplifies the process with its intuitive interface and robust features.

• How to Install visual studio code on Arch Linux [Ed: This is proprietary spyware from Microsoft; use something like Kate instead.]

  Visual studio code it's an essential tool when it comes to coding.

  Visual studio code supports rpm and debian based distros, but not Arch Linux. Even though you could download the source code and run vscode binary file manually.

• Setting up VSCode for Ansible Lightspeed AI in Ubuntu 22.04 desktop [Ed: Proprietary Microsoft spyware and vendor lock-in]

  Red Hat launched the Ansible Lightspeed Code Assistant Generative AI with IBM Watson Code Assistant in May 2023. This preview is now available to all Ansible users, allowing them to explore the technology, provide feedback to Red Hat, and further train the AI model. In this brief blog post, I will share my personal experience with installing and utilizing Ansible Lightspeed AI to create playbooks in VSCode using Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS desktop.

• How to fix "The list of sources could not be read" error on Debian

  In this tutorial, you will learn how to fix the error "E: The list of sources could not be read" on Debian

  This error indicates that one or multiple sources are not readable by the system, thus they can't be used to update your system.

• Pablo Iranzo Gómez: Upgrade Debian from buster to bullseye

  I had two Raspberry Pi systems running Raspbian and they were failing to find updates for newer packages. As Debian stable was upgraded too, moving from buster to bullseye the packages failed to get the newer ones. Warning Beware as this procedure might upgrade the system but might no render a bootable Raspberry Pi A way to fix it is, to first, change references, if any, to the old codename version by running:

• How to Install and Configure Cacti Monitoring Server on Ubuntu 22.04

  Cacti is a free and powerful network monitoring and graphing tool for Linux. It is a frontend tool for RRDtool used to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data.

• SCP Command in Linux: Copying Files Securely via SSH Explained

  How to transfer file and directory? how to copy files and directory?

• Find a Directory in Linux

  Here are various ways you can use the find command to look for directories with specific parameters.