Installing and using VirtualBox on CentOS

1. RPMforge for CentOS 6 The default RPMforge repository does not replace any CentOS base packages. In the past it used to, but those packages are now in a separate repository (rpmforge-extras) which is disabled by default. You can find a complete listing of the...

Installing sSMTP MTA (Mail Transfer Agent)

sSMTP is an extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things – no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost....

WordPress and problems with RewriteRules and w00t

Have you been recently seeing these URLs in error.log [error] [client 69.162.74.102] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:) The F flag sends a 403 Forbidden response when the rule matches: RewriteRule...

10 Linux DIG Command Examples for DNS Lookup

Dig stands for domain information groper. Using dig command you can query DNS name servers for your DNS lookup related tasks. This article explains 10 examples on how to use dig command. 1. Simple dig Command Usage (Understand dig Output) When you pass a domain name...

Install GD Library For PHP5 On CentOS

An easy task, using yum. First step, see if it’s already installed. [root@optusnet]# rpm -qa | grep php php-common-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 If the GD Library isn’t present in...

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