Most webmasters have started to learn HTML before they moved on to programming languages such as PHP. With PHP come databases like MySQL as the primary storage for project data. Many popular online applications, such as WordPress, use the PHP and MySQL combination to power sites online. You usually do not need to know PHP [...]

Categories: Online Services, Web Development

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

If you have a need to manage MySQL databases, you know that learning the syntax for the various MySQL tools can be a real nightmare. Fortunately there are tools out there that make this job far more easy. But of the web-based tools, which are easiest? You might have given phpMyAdmin a try, but found [...]

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

There are certain applications, such as MySQL and Apache that are configured upon installation. The most familiar to you might be MySQL. At the point of installation you configure the server address, admin password, etc. But what happens when you need to reconfigure that tool and you don’t want to go through the process of [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

My past post instructed you (minus the “j” – thank you Simon) how to begin the process of installing eGoupware. That article was primarily about getting the requirements out of the way so you can begin the real installation process. That time is nigh, and in this article I am going to continue on with [...]

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

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

This morning I woke up to find one of the sites I administer down. The error on the page was very clear in that it could not connect to the database due to a corrupt table. I had two choices, recover from a backup or attempt to repair the corrupted tables. I opted to try [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, troubleshooting, Tutorials Advanced

Lately I have been doing a lot of coverage of MySQL. Of course there are a lot of reasons for that – MySQL is as popular a database as it is flexible and reliable. And so far I’ve covered MySQL Workbench (see my article “Complete database administration package MySQL Workbench“), MySQL Administrator (see my article [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic