Hi all,
So I was looking to find a way to replace Putty on my Windows desktop. What's wrong with Putty? Mainly that it doesn't support a multi-tabbed interface and it's pretty much not being developed anymore.
I also tried cygwin before and although SSH worked like a breeze I …
Hi all,
Setting up SSH is really easy and even in a Virtual Machine offers a major advantage - you can connect to the VM using Putty or any other *nix ssh client that will allow you to copy paste commands.
Besides that, the most common usage of SSH is to …
Just follow the screenshots to install FreeBSD 9.0 in a Virtual Machine!
In my previous post I demonstrated how to install VirtualBox 4.1.14 on Windows 7 Home Premium. What good is VirtualBox without a Virtual Machine running in it though?
Let's see what it takes to setup VirtualBox for FreeBSD 9.0
First of all figure out if you have …
Hi all,
Almost a year and a half ago I demonstrated how to install VirtualBox 3.2 on Windows XP Home Edition. A lot of things have changed since then and VirtualBox has improved in some areas, most importantly on the handling of USB interfaces and multi-core hosts/guests.
This …
This post is "incomplete" because although Concrete5 is installed correctly and works, I can't get pretty links to work right with nginx. Maybe this will still be useful for somebody! ...
Hey all,
In this post we'll see how to setup nginx with PHP support and as an example set up …
Hi all,
In this post we'll see how to hook up PureFTPd to MySQL so we don't have to use the PureDB database that comes with PureFTPd.
Prerequisites:
Hi everyone,
So I was looking to install an FTP server on FreeBSD that wouldn't be hard to administrate and would have encryption support too.
As such I stumbled upon PureFTPd.
These are the steps I took to setup PureFTPd with encryption.
Please note that these instructions are based on …
Hi everyone,
So in my last post, I showed how we can install and use Percona Xtrabackup on FreeBSD 8.2 to take and restore database backups.
But what if you want files to be saved directly to a compressed tarball ?
Read On..
Prerequisites:
This is how I got Percona to work on FreeBSD 8.2 - kinda bumpy but looks like it works!
Prerequisites: