Author: Rahul

VLC is a powerful media player available for Linux-based systems as well as for windows. It is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most types of multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. The VLC media player application is available as snap package. Which provides single command for the package installation. This tutorial will help you to install VLC on Ubuntu 20.04 via snap tool. Prerequisites This is a good idea to keep installed packages up to date. Login to your Debian system as sudo privileged account and…

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. Which helps developers to build their mobile application’s back-end. Parse dashboard is another application built on node.js 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 Ubuntu system. Prerequisites Setup a sudo privileged account and apply initial security by following initial server…

A Dockerfile is a script that contains a set of instructions that are used to build a Docker image. The Dockerfile is used by the Docker build command to create an image that can be run in a container. When creating a Dockerfile, it is important to make the script as clear and understandable as possible. One way to achieve this is by adding comments to the Dockerfile. In this article, we will discuss the importance of adding comments to Dockerfiles and how to add comments in a Dockerfile. Why Add Comments to Dockerfiles? Comments in Dockerfiles can be very…

Parse Server is an open source application written on node.js. It is used as Backend As A Service (BAAS) platform. It helps developers to build their mobile application’s backend. Parse dashboard is another application built on node.js by the parse developers. It is an frontend web interface for managing backend parse server. You can add and manage multiple parse server from single dashboard. This tutorial will help you to setup parse server and dashboard on CentOS Linux system. Prerequisites Launched a CentOS 8 instance on Digitalocean. Setup a sudo privileged account and apply initial security by following initial server setup…

Roundcube is a popular Webmail interface written on PHP programming language. You can access Mailbox created on your Linux server through POP/IMAP on the Roundcube web interface. This tutorial will help you to install Roundcube Webmail on CentOS 8 Prerequisites Launched a CentOS 8 instance on DigitalOcean. Setup a sudo privileged account and apply initial security by following initial server setup Login to instance via SSH as root account Step 1 – Install LAMP Server Roundcube webmail application is written in PHP programming language. It uses MySQL as the database server. So we required to set up a LAMP server…

Redis is an in-memory data structure store, used as a database server, cache, and message broker. Redis is written in C programming language. It also provides a PHP module for communication between PHP script with the Redis server. This tutorial will help you to install Redis server along with PHP extensions on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. Prerequisites Before beginning the Redis server installation on Ubuntu 20.04: Login to Ubuntu as sudo privileged user For the newly installed systems, required to complete initial server setup Step 1 – Install Redis Server Redis packages are available under the default apt repository.…

PHP FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative implementation of PHP FastCGI. It provides some additional features like Adaptive process spawning which is useful for sites. This tutorial will help you to install Apache with PHP-FPM/FastCGI on Ubuntu 20.04 system. In this tutorial, we are using PHP 7.4 and configure with Apache using PHP-FPM and FastCGI. You can also visit the previous tutorial to configure Apache with multiple PHP versions using PHP-FPM/FastCGI on Ubuntu systems. Step 1 – Installing Apache Apache web server debian packages are available under the default repositories. Login to your Ubuntu system with sudo privileges account.…

In this article, we will see how to install the PHP scripting language on our Ubuntu operating system. The PHP scripting language is one of the most popular options for creating dynamic websites, and it’s also used in a variety of other contexts. It’s an open-source programming language that stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.” We’ll explain what all of that means in a bit. If you need to use PHP on your computer or server running Ubuntu, keep reading to find out more about installing the software and understanding its role as part of the LAMP stack as well as…

Zoom application is one of the most popular application these days. The Zoom cloud meetings application provides simplified video conferencing with the real-time messaging and content sharing over the internet. The zoom client allows you to join meeting without sign in to the application. To start a new meeting, you would required to login to the application. Visit zoom.us to create account. This tutorial will help you to install Zoom on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux system. Step 1 – Install Zoom on Ubuntu Zoom client is available as snap package for the Ubuntu 20.04, 19.10, 18.04 & 16.04 LTS systems.…

VLC media player is a free and open-source cross-platform media player available for most of modern operating systems. It is also useful as streaming media server. The VLC media player application is available under the snapcraft. This tutorial will help you to install VLC on Ubuntu 20.04 via snap tool. Prerequisites Before begin the VLC Media Player installation on Ubuntu 20.04: Login to Ubuntu as sudo privileged user For the newly installed systems, required to complete initial server setup Step 1 – Install VLC VLC media player is available on the snap store. A snap is an applications packaged with…