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Installing LAMP Stack on a Ubuntu Server

Posted on 11/15/10 No Comments

This is a step-by-step instructions on how to setup LAMP stack on Ubuntu server (Ubuntu 9.10). This setup is based on linode VPS. Linodes are very easy to setup and manage. It uses XEN virtualization technology. You can find more information about linodes @ www.linode.com. If you are looking for a dedicated server for your [...]

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Monitor your server uptime using checkitsup.com

Posted on 09/29/10 No Comments

Cabot Solutions is pleased to develop checkitsup.com for Grobel Tech, an Australian IT Infrastructure service company.   Checkitsup.com is a free service that allows system administrators add their server to be tracked for uptime.   The service pings or polls smtp or http services in a preset interval and report any downtime instantly via email. [...]

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Generating a Google Sitemap via PHP

Posted on 06/15/09 No Comments

A sitemap is  an XML file,that lists the URLs of a site.  The sitemap file can be used to inform search engines like google on the pages available on a site and when those pages have been modified.  The search engines require a particular format for the sitemap xml file. Let me give a brief [...]

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Getting Openfire Groups to work with Zimbra OpenLDAP Authentication

Posted on 04/10/09 2 Comments

Its quite easy to get openfire and spark messenger to authenticate with Zimbra’s OpenLDAP by selecting OpenLDAP directory server during initial openfire setup.  One of the biggest drawbacks is that the groups feature will not be available.  Group feature is important for enterprises with large number of users and wnat to provide preset groups in [...]

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Authenticating your web applications with LDAP and .htaccess

Posted on 01/03/09 No Comments

Here is a trick to have your web applications that run on apache servers to authenticate using a LDAP server.   Note, your apache server should support .htaccess.  This is useful when you want to restrict certain applications to authorised users in a network. Create a .htaccess file in the root of your application with the [...]

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Adobe AIR 1.5 available for Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE

Posted on 12/21/08 No Comments

Adobe has released AIR 1.5 for Linux. You need to install Flash player (10.0.15.3) to be able to use badge install feature of AIR.  This will enable multi platform development of desktop based applications which will run on most popular desktop operating systems Linux, Max, and Windows. Go get a copy today here.

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