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APF Advance Policy firewall that provides you an easy way to configure iptables rules. This is a short snippet how can you install/configure or uninstall APF on your Linux Server.
wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz
tar -zxvf apf-current.tar.gz
cd apf-9.7-2
./install.sh
APF installation is completed.
How to allow specific incoming ports in APF ? e.g 80,21
vim /etc/apf/conf.apf
Mod_geoip is an Apache module use for determination of City/Country/ISP of a visitor. In CentOS 6 mod_geoip is not available in the default set repository so you will need to download it manually.
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/mod_geoip-1.2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh mod_geoip-1.2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Completed. You should see mod_geoip.conf under /etc/httpd/conf.d/
ls /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_geoip.conf
Our last post can be found here, where we described why did we chose DRBD along with heartbeat, lighttpd and NFS. It is recommended to read that first to have idea why we are setting up this.
In this article i will explain how to configure it step by step. This is copy, paste HowTo you will need to replace the IPs and other information according to your requirements.
Example scenario :
node1.hackersgarage.com - 192.168.0.61 node2.hackersgarage.com - 192.168.0.62 LAN Virtual IP for NFS Service Virtual IP for LAN - 192.168.0.63 Internet Virtual IP for Lighttpd Service static.hackersgarage.com - 75.127.109.111
Most of the Linux flavors use BASH as default shell. But as per requirements or interest people tend to use other shells. In our case, we saw server had CSH set as default SHELL.
Now, there is a utility called chsh is used for changing your default shell without requiring manual modifications in /etc/passwd
How to use chsh to change your default shell?
First of all look at available shells
cat /etc/shells
# /etc/shells: valid login shells /bin/csh /bin/sh /usr/bin/es /usr/bin/ksh /bin/ksh /usr/bin/rc /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh /usr/bin/esh /bin/dash /bin/bash /bin/rbash /usr/bin/screen
In this article we will discuss how can you build a high availability storage solution to store your static data.
Case :
Client is running a business portal that have approx. 300-500 MB data uploads per day. There was NFS Storage server which had 500 GB drive which was running out of space. This Server was also running lighttpd web server to provide access for users to view these files.
Problems :
No Failover. (Except offline backup)
When ever server gets done, Users are unable to upload data.
Users are unable to access their data because lighttpd was also running on same server.
ffmpeg is open source project that produce different audio and video Codecs, players, conversion tools, broadcasting application for live streaming and so on. These all packages are released under GPL License.
This HowTo explains how to install ffmpeg on centos distro linux and audio conversion short tutorial.
Prerequisites :
All commands are run as root.
Internet should be available on Linux box.