PHPMyAdmin and MySQL server complement each other very well. In most situations you have installed mysql server and phpmyadmin.

By default the mysql root password is blank and this is a big security issue and you have change the mysql password as soon as possible. If that is not done …

If you have installed phpMyAdmin in your linux server (centos/RHEL/debian), and tried to access phpMyAdmin in most cases you will get this 403 forbidden error. I have seen this issue very often if you are installing phpmyadmin using yum or by apt-get. By default phpmyadmin installed path is /usr/share/phpmyadmin and …

I have been looking at server logs and there have been a number of connections from different IPs logging in my server. By default anonymous FTP is enabled in cpanel.

Sep 22 19:47:08 server pure-ftpd: (?@x.x.x.x) [INFO] New connection from x.x.x.x
Sep 22 19:47:11 server pure-ftpd: (?@x.x.x.x) [INFO] Anonymous user logged in …

I came across interesting module for apache which does automatic search and replacement operations using regular expressions and decided to experiment on it. For information about this module documented in apache website

NOTE: This module is only available in Apache 2.2.7 and later

I was running Centos 5 and unable to …

How to Capture a Website Screenshot in Linux

You might be wondering how to capture a website screenshot (as thumbnail) but
you dont know how to do it. Although PHP GD library is available, it is just
not possible to do the task with php. You will need a linux server running xwindow
system …

If you have downloaded a new .deb package file and you dont know how to install it. here is an easy way to install it.

dpkg -i mypackage.deb

You cannot install by apt-get instead you need to use dpkg.

Hope this helps!

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It is easy to change the default homepage with .htaccess file. Normally the default homepage is index.htm or index.php.

what if you want to set the default homepage to some other file (say home.php) . All you have to do is create a .htaccess file in the public html folder …

Xvfb is a virtual frame buffer X11 server that can be installed on linux servers without a monitor and graphics card. It can be customized for multiple displays and screens as well. In this tutorial i will show how to install, setup and configure a display. I am installing the …

i was attempting to launch Xvf (virtual x server) and i have noticed that if i specify 32 bit depth i always get this error. Its a bit strange becuase it works perfectly fine for 24bit and 16bit colors.

Xvfb :1 -screen 0 800x600x32&

The error i get is

Fatal server error:
Couldn’t …

I was trying to run a Xorg window system and every time in between i was getting this nasty error in between the commandlines. I am running Centos/RedhatEL

FreeFontPath: FPE “unix/:7100″ refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

I was also getting this warning while attempting to launch firefox in my server …