How to Install Grav CMS on Debian/Ubuntu
The Content Management System (CMS) market today is captured by the three giants — WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla with WordPress being the leader. Grav CMS is a new kid on the block featuring an...
How to Install Gogs, a GitHub-Style Git Remote Service
There are many online services such as GitHub and Bitbucket, which allow users to host Git repositories online. However, when you are working on closed source projects, you may want to use a self-hosted...
Managing Your Linux Server with Webmin
Managing Linux servers can be very difficult at times. It can be very hard for someone who doesn’t have a lot of experience with the command-line tools. In addition, it’s also difficult for administrators...
Creating Linux Apps That Run Anywhere with AppImage
Most Linux distributions allow users to install software by using a package manager. Unfortunately, this system leads to quite a few rough edges. If you’re a user using a “long term support” version of...
How to Install Nextcloud on Ubuntu
There are many online file storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox. However, these are run by third parties, which means that you often don’t have control over the data you’ve uploaded. Fortunately,...
An Introduction to the Docker Ecosystem
Traditionally, developing an application and deploying it in a production environment hasn’t been easy. Development and production environments are often configured differently, which makes it difficult to resolve problems quickly when something was broken. A...
Serverless Computing, Explained
The world is changing dynamically at a fast pace. The thing that is changing even faster is technology and the underlying architecture beneath it. In this article, we will dig into the depths of...
An In-Depth Guide to iptables, the Linux Firewall
The Linux kernel comes with a packet filtering framework named netfilter. It allows you to allow, drop and modify traffic leaving in and out of a system. A tool, iptables builds upon this functionality...
How to Install WordPress on Windows with XAMPP
WordPress is a great Content Management System. It can be used to create nearly all kinds of websites ranging from blogs to e-commerce websites. In order to use WordPress, we also need to install...
A Guide to Using the Caddy Server on Linux
Caddy is a web server that’s extremely easy to configure and use. It provides HTTP/2 support, automatic SSL configuration with Let’s Encrypt, and an intuitive configuration syntax. It is cross-platform, and can run across...
A Guide to SSH Port Forwarding/Tunnelling
SSH is a widely used protocol for system administration and file transfer. In addition, it has a feature called SSH tunnelling (or SSH port forwarding). It creates an encrypted connection between a local computer...
Adding HTTPS to Your Website with Let’s Encrypt
HTTPS is an important part of securing websites. In our previous article, we’ve discussed how to add HTTPS to your website with Cloudflare. Unfortunately, for all intents and purposes, CloudFlare’s HTTPS is just an...
How to Access Your Mac over SSH with Remote Login
Remote Login is a feature in macOS that allows you to connect to your Mac from another computer. Enabling this feature starts up a SSH server, and it allows you to access your Mac through...
How to Get an Unix/Linux Environment on Windows with MSYS2
If you’re a Unix/Linux user who also has to work with Windows systems, you’ve probably wished that Windows was more Unix-like. An Unix-like environment provides many advantages — the powerful text processing tools, using...
How to Run Android Apps on Your Computer With Android-x86
Android has turned out to be the most popular OS on mobile devices. However, desktop OSes such as Windows, Mac or Linux don’t support running Android apps natively. While there are emulators such as...
Adding HTTPS to Your Site with Cloudflare
Much of the web works on HTTP; but it is insecure protocol as it provides no protection. It’s secure sibling, HTTPS provides protection against eavesdropping and tampering of data. Historically, HTTPS has been used...
Building a Spam Filter Using Machine Learning
Machine learning is everywhere. From self driving cars to face recognition on Facebook, it is machine learning behind the scenes that drives all of it. If you’ve ever used GMail or Yahoo Mail, you...
8 Critical Security Issues to Avoid in Your Website
A web application, being exposed to the web, is far more prone to be attacked than other kinds of applications. Building a secure web application is of prime importance — a hacked website costs...
Customizing and coloring the bash prompt
If you’re already not familiar with bash, the prompt is the little blurb of text displayed when it asks for a command. It capable of communicating a lot, but most people don’t use it...
Protecting SSH with Fail2ban
SSH allows you to log in to a remote computer or server and control it through a command-line interface. However, because SSH is exposed to the internet; attackers can try to log in by...