Author: Rahul

Apache is a highly flexible, powerful, and open-source HTTP server software that is widely used for hosting websites. One of its capabilities is to manipulate HTTP headers in responses, a feature which can significantly improve the performance of your website. Among these manipulations, enabling the ‘expire headers’ is an effective technique to manage the caching behavior of your website. Essentially, expire headers tell the browser how long a particular file should be cached. This means that subsequent requests for the same file are served from the cache, saving bandwidth and improving the speed of your site. In this article, we…

Nginx is an popular web server widely used by web hosting providers. It was created by Igor Sysoev and first public release in 2004. Nginx is also used as reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache server. Nginx web server is highly useful for heavy traffic websites. This tutorial will help you to install and configure Nginx web server on Ubuntu 20.04 system. Prerequisites Running Ubuntu 20.04 system Shell access with root or sudo privileged user Step 1 – Installing Nginx The Nginx latest packages are available under default repositories for all Ubuntu’s versions. You can directly install…

Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 email server that is widely used for its reliability, scalability, and ease of use. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) both are protocols works as message accessing agent. These protocols are used to fetch email messages from user inboxes on mail servers. In simple words, POP3 and IMAP are responsible to fetch messages from mailboxes and show them on your mobile device or web interface. In this article, we will guide you through the process of installing and configuring Dovecot on Ubuntu systems. Prerequisites A running Ubuntu system…

MariaDB is an open-source relational database server. Which is made by the original developers of MySQL. MariaDB intended to maintain high compatibility with the MySQL server, APIs, and commands. This tutorial will help you to install the MariaDB on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. Prerequisites Running Ubuntu 20.04 system Login access with root or sudo privileged account Step 1 – Setup Repository The Default packages repositories contain old versions of the MariaDB server. So, it will be good to use the official repository, which provides the latest version of packages. First, add the package signing key to your system by running…

Apache Maven is a powerful project management tool that is based on the Project Object Model (POM). It is used for managing project builds, dependencies, and documentation. Maven simplifies the build process like ANT but it is much more advanced. If you’re developing Java applications, Maven can help manage your project’s lifecycle and dependencies. This guide will walk you through the process of installing Maven on Ubuntu 20.04. You may like: How to Install Gradle on Ubuntu 20.04 Step 1: Update Your System Before you begin any installation, it’s a good practice to update the package repository. This ensures you…

Gradle is an open-source build tool for the automation of applications. The Gradle helps developers team to build, automate and deliver software easier and faster, which increased their productivity. It can build applications written in Java, C++, Python or your language of choice. This tutorial will help you to install Gradle on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. You may like: How to Install Apache Maven on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Prerequisites You must have root or sudo privilege account access on Ubuntu 20.04 system. Gradle required Java language for running on any operating system. So first of all, Make sure you have…

Notepad++ is one of the loved one application by Windows users. Which provides a large number of options to work with it including the syntax highlighting. Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL. It keeps smaller program size and faster executing with lower CPU uses. Most of the Linux users loved to use command line editors like vim and nano, which also have several benefits to use. But if you still want to use GUI based editor, Notepad++ can be a good choice for you In this tutorial, you will learn about Notepad++ installation on…

Parse Server is an open source application written on node.js programming language. The parse application is used as the Backend As A Service (BAAS) platform. It is easy-to-use, flexible and scalable backend for the mobile application. Parse dashboard is built by the parse developers. It is an front-end web interface for managing backend parse server. You can add and manage multiple parse server from single dashboard. This tutorial will help you to install and configure parse server and parse dashboard applications on Debian system. Prerequisites Running Debian 10 instance with shell access Login as sudo privileged account Step 1 -…

Android Studio is a popular programming environment for creating Android applications. It was developed by Google and is available for multiple platforms. We’ll look at how to get Android Studio on Linux in this article. Android Studio includes a number of built-in capabilities that provide you with a quick and stable working environment. It also offers a solid testing infrastructure that includes multi-display support, emulators, and other features. It’s based on IntelliJ IDEA, an IDE written in Java for Java applications for desktops and mobile phones. The following section is focussing on how to get Android Studio if you are…

Snap packages are a relatively new form of package management system designed for Linux. They were created by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, in 2014. The goal of snap packages is to make it easier to install, update, and manage software on Linux systems. In this article, we will provide an introduction to snap packages in Linux, discussing what they are and how they work. In this article, we will discuss how to install snap packages on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Installing Snapd Before we can install snap packages, we need to make sure that the snapd daemon is…