WordPress needs no introduction.

It's simply the most popular blogging software at the moment.

Here's how I got it installed on FreeBSD 9.1

Requirements:

• FreeBSD ports
• Some understanding of MySQL (create a database and a user, although it's also outlined here)

Brief outline of the procedure: 1. Install packages …

I've been wanting to try out Cassandra for a while now, ever since I heard how easy replication is. Let's start with the basics:

• Cassandra is a part of Apache Hadoop

• Cassandra is a NoSQL database

• Cassandra needs Java

• Cassandra has two ways to manipulate data - The thrift language and …

Hi all,

Kinda torn between Jruby and Groovy, so I figured I'll write down the steps I took to get Jruby working on FreeBSD 9.1.

Prerequisites:

• OpenJDK 7 installed (follow steps 1-4)

1. Make sure bash is installed - it looks like Jruby needs it even if you don't actually …

Just decided I wanted to get into programming with Groovy again so I took a look to find out how hard would it be to install this on FreeBSD 9.1. Did a little research online and as it turns out, not too hard :)

First you'll need Java installed - there …

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 …

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:

• The previous post onPureFTPd.
• MySQL needs to be setup before proceeding

This post has been partly based on this one, this …

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 …