Tutorials

How To Install SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008

First, We will need to make sure your Windows Server 2008 is a clean install.
If you already have Microsoft SQL server express then you need to uninstalled it first.

Preparing Anything:

1. ISO Microsoft SQL Server 2005 full release (en_sql_2005_std_x86_dvd.iso)
2. Microsoft Service Pack (we can download it from :  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FB0EE17E-96EB-4CBB-AC09-95A4DCF73077)
3. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 (you can download it from microsoft website )





How To Configure Postfix With Amavisd-new, ClamAV and Spamassassin

What is ClamAV, Amavisd-new and Spamassassin?

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.





How To Install Postfix with Mysql, Postfixadmin, Cyrus-SASL, Courier Authlib, Courier-Imap, Smtp-Auth and Squirellmail

What is Postfix, Postfixadmin, Cyrus-SASL, Courier Authlib, Courier-Imap, Squirellmail ?

Postfix is a free open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email. It is intended as a fast, easy-to-administer, and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail MTA.

Postfix Admin is a web based interface to configure and manage a Postfix based email server for many users.





How To Configure Logrotate Nginx Log in Freebsd and Linux

Here is a simple way How To Configure Logrotate Nginx Log in FreeBSD and Linux Machine.

Configure Nginx Logrotate in FreeBSD Machine

Login into the server via SSH
Edit file newsyslog.conf

#pico /etc/newsyslog.conf


#### add 1 line below into newsyslog.conf ####


/var/log/nginx/*.log            root:wheel      640  7     *    @T00    GJ        /var/run/nginx.pid 30


#### save this file ####





How To Enable ICMP Ping in Windows 2008 Server

We can enable ICMP Ping in Windows Server 2008 via Command Prompt console.

First, Just RDP/Terminal Services into your Windows 2008 Server.
Click START >> Command Line

Type the following command below :

c:\>netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

This will automatically turn on ICMP Ping.
We can also turn of ICMP Ping via command line below :

c:\>netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable





How To Install Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Zend Optimizer and PHP Extensions in FreeBSD

What is Nginx ?

Nginx is (pronounced "engine X") is a lightweight web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy, licensed under a BSD-like license.

In This tutorial we will try to install Nginx web server with PHP5, PHP5 Ext, MySQL5 and Pecl-Memcache PHP module in FreeBSD7 server.

I assume you already have freebsd server up and running.
We will using port to install all packages.

Installing MySQL5





How to Fixed /usr/bin/crontab permissions are wrong. Please set to 4755

If you have a cpanel server and you've a problem with your crontab permission are wrong please set to 4755.

Please kindly to follow up this step below to solved your crontab permission issue.

Anyway, if you get the message:
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/usr/bin/crontab permissions are wrong. Please set to 4755

You can fix it by logging in via ssh/root and giving it some:

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$chmod 4755 /usr/bin/crontab




How To Install Smokeping in Centos/RHEL Server

What is Smokeping?

SmokePing does not stand alone. It relies on various other tools and services being present. Apart from a Unix OS and a working Perl installation you need the following things. The list contains the names of the tools together with the version of the tool which I am using, and a link for downloading the tool.

Preparing anything to install Smokeping

Download Smokeping : http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.4.2.tar.gz





How To Monitor Windows Memory Usage, Diskspace, CPU Load and Uptime From Nagios

We will trying to monitor Windows Memory Usage, Diskspace, CPU Load and Uptime From Nagios.

First we need to have a nagios up and running smoothly.
Please follow up this url to install nagios http://www.nagios.org

Next we also need a windows nagios agent.
Download windows nagios agent from this url http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/download/nsclient_201.zip

Install nagios agent / nsclient to your windows server/client.





How To Format Harddrive in Linux/Unix Console

Here is a simple steps how to formatting a new harddrive in linux/unix console :

First, we need to take a look all partition in your server

$fdisk -l
.....
.....
Disk /dev/hdd: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

You will see a result above that tell /dev/hdd is have 320GB but don't have any partition on it.





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