Typo3 is a powerful Open Source content management system that runs on system that support recent versions of PHP and MySQL. Linux users usually do not have a problem installing PHP and MySQL on their systems, while Windows users may have troubles finding a solution to run them on their system. Typo3 Winstaller is a [...]

Categories: The Web, Windows

CentOS might well be one of the finest Linux distributions for a server environment. It is basically a mimic of Red Hat Enterprise Linux without the proprietary software and the price attached to it. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense to set CentOS up as your go-to Web server. It’s reliable, it’s stable, [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, The Web, Tutorials Basic

The search for the perfect LDAP management tool has brought me around to a tool that is very similar to that of phpMyAdmin (for coverage of this tool, see my article “Install phpmyadmin for easy MySQL administration“). Both of these tools are web-based administration tools for tasks that many find too complex to do via [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Weezo is remote access made easy. The server comes as a portable version or installer for the Windows operating system. It basically allows a user to configure remote access to files on a computer system and to run scripts on a web server at the same time. Here is how it works. Weezo will run [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Quite some time ago I wrote an article that illustrated how eGroupware could serve as a legitimate Exchange replacement (see my article “eGroupware: Your Exchange replacement has arrived“). I very briefly skimmed over the process of installing this outstanding groupware tool. In this case, skimming will get you nowhere. Recently I revisited the installation of [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced

Recently I showed you how to get the open source osTicket up and running (see my article “Install osTicket for a free – open source – help desk tool“). That article only got the tool installed. But now what? How do you make that tool come to life and serve as your one and only [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Project, Software, Tools, troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

The consulting firm I work for has tasked me with finding a good help desk system for us to use. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to find a solution that both has the features we need and isn’t too costly. There are a LOT of help desk tools available. Some of [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

If you have done much work with Apache then most likely you have experienced a need for enabling the rewrite engine. If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite engine, you can think of it as a means for your web server to literally rewrite urls so they are easier for users to remember. So instead [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Software, The Web, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen? There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development