Author: Rahul

In the digital world, data is valuable. Consequently, ensuring data’s safety and availability is of paramount importance. That’s where backups come into the picture. This article will explain how to create a Python program to back up MySQL databases. For this tutorial, we’ll use the `mysqldump` utility – a powerful tool that generates a SQL script from existing database content. We’ll execute this utility using Python’s `subprocess` module. Prerequisites Before diving into the code, ensure you have the following: Python – An installation of Python 3 is needed. You can download the latest version from the official website. MySQL Server…

PHPList is a opensource newsletter manager which allows us to add and manage subscribers along with creating and sending email newsletters. PHPList is created with PHP and MySQL. This article will help you to setup PHPList in Linux server. Features of PHPList: PHPList has a very long list of features, Anyone can use it easily for their business by sending emails. Below is few features listed of PHPList. One-way email announcement delivery system Tracks links and URLs. Statistics by message, URL and subscriber. Lets you write and send messages, and manage phplist over the internet. Allow you to choose many…

HAProxy is a very fast and reliable solution for high availability, load balancing, It supports TCP and HTTP-based applications. Nowadays most of the websites need 99.999% uptime for their site, which is not possible with single server setup. Then we need some high availability environment that can easily manage with single server failure. This article will help you to install HAProxy on CentOS, RHEL servers and will configure a Layer 4 Load Balancing (Transport Layer). Which will balance load and transfer requests to different-2 servers based on IP address and port numbers. Step 1 – Install HAProxy HAProxy package is…

Miro is the best media player for Ubuntu so far. Miro is an open source music/video player that features an integrated BitTorrent client, podcast support other interesting features. This article will help you to install Miro 6 on Ubuntu system. Features in Miro 6: Pull all your music and videos together in one place. Add your favorite Video & Music websites. Share music and videos on your local network running Miro. Sync music and videos to your phone, Android phone or tablet etc. Convert video files to the right format to play on your phone. Install Miro on Ubuntu Use…

Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system that can handle a wide range of tasks. One of those tasks is adding text to images, which can be useful for creating graphics, designing logos, or simply adding captions to photos. In this article, we’ll show you how to add text to images using Linux command line tools. Step 1: Install ImageMagick The first thing you’ll need to do is install ImageMagick, a powerful image manipulation program that can handle a wide range of image formats. To install ImageMagick on Ubuntu or Debian, use the following command: sudo apt-get install imagemagick…

CSF (ConfigServer Firewall) is an iptables based firewall, provides easier way to implement iptables rules. Sometimes we need to add specific rules (e.g. iptables rules not covered by CSF) to add in CSF. If we add these rules using iptables command directly from the shell, they will be erased on next CSF restart. After installing CSF firewall on Linux, This article will help you to add custom iptables rules in CSF firewall. CSF provides pre and post scripts, where pre is executed before and post is executed after applying the rules by the CSF firewall. For example you want to…

Apache Traffic Server is great tool to use as reverse proxy or caching proxy server to increase performance of site. This article will guide you to how to Setup Apache Traffic Server with Apache Web Server on backend. This article assume you are running Apache server on port 82, Using url like http://localhost:82/. Now we are going to put Apache traffic server on frontend of Apache web server on port 80, Using like url http://svr1.tecadmin.net. When we load http://svr1.tecadmin.net domain in bower the request will go to traffic server first and it will pass request to backend web server running…

VLC is the most popular media player for Linux-based systems as well as for windows. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Step 1 – Prerequisites You must have root or sudo privileged user with Desktop access. Login to your Ubuntu Desktop and upgrade the current packages to latest version. sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade Step 2 – Install VLC on Ubuntu The Ubuntu default apt repositories contains older vlc version. But still, you can install vlc using…

phpMyAdmin is a web tool made with PHP programming language to manage MySQL databases. It gives you an easy-to-use web interface to work with your databases. This guide will show you how to install phpMyAdmin on CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and other Linux systems. Before you install phpMyAdmin, make sure you have Apache, PHP, and MySQL set up on your server. If you haven’t installed them yet, check our tutorials to learn how. Setup LAMP Stack on CentOS and Redhat Setup LAMP Stack on Ubuntu Step 1: Download phpMyAdmin Archive Download the latest phpMyAdmin source code and extract it…

In the realm of secure file transfers, using SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) with FileZilla is a trusted method for encrypting data in transit. A critical part of setting up SFTP connections is the use of SSH keys, which enhance security by offering a more secure alternative to password authentication. This guide will walk you through the process of importing your private SSH key into FileZilla, enabling you to establish a secure connection to your server. Prerequisites Before you begin, ensure you have the following: The latest version of FileZilla installed on your computer. An SSH key pair. If you…