Author: Rahul

Did you know that MongoDB databases have a built-in way to make backups using the shell or the mongod process? The mongod process automatically takes a snapshot (a quick copy) when the database starts, stops, upgrades, or recovers from a crash. But these snapshots are not enough in case something bad happens, like disk damage or a natural disaster. To keep your data safe, it is a good idea to set up an automatic backup system for your MongoDB databases. In this article, we will explain how to create automatic backups for your MongoDB databases using a simple Shell script.…

Docker is a popular open-source platform that provides functionalities to develop, ship, and run applications in containers. Containers allow you to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Docker Engine on Ubuntu 20.04. Prerequisite A system running Ubuntu 20.04 A user account with sudo privileges Access to a terminal/command line Step 1: Installing Docker Engine on Ubuntu First of all, import the GPG key to your system to verify packages signature before installing them. To import key run the below command on…

The PHP FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is used for deploying PHP based websites over Nginx web server. FPM is a process manager to manage the FastCGI SAPI (Server API) in PHP. This tutorial will help you to install and configure Nginx with PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 20.04 system. Prerequisites Shell access with sudo privileged account to Ubuntu 20.04 system. Step 1 – Installing Nginx Nginx packages are available under default repositories. SSH to your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system with sudo privileges account and install Nginx web server from the official repository. sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx Step 2 -…

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed software for manipulating images. We can easily optimize the image, convert their type using GIMP. It provides the power and flexibility to designers to transform images into truly unique creations. GIMP is a cross platforms application and is available for Linux, Windows, MAC OS, and FreeBSD, etc. This article will help you to install the latest Gimp on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal LTS Linux system. Prerequisites A running Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop system with sudo privileged account access. Step 1 – Installing GIMP Login to your Ubuntu desktop system and add an external…

Dovecot is an open-source service for IMAP and POP3 on Unix-like operating systems. It focused on lightweight and secure mail server available for most of the Linux operating system. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) both are protocols works as message accessing agent. These protocols are used to the fetch email message from user inbox on mail servers. In simple words, POP3 and IMAP are responsible to fetch messages from mailboxes and show you on your mobile device or web interface. This tutorial will help you to install and configure Dovecot service on Debian 10…

Apache Error code 404 means “file not found”. This is the error code when a user requested a web page or file which does not exist on the server. As per the SEO perspective, it’s not good to return a 404 error code to the user even requested file doesn’t exist. Now, You can either configure a custom 404 error page on your server or redirect the website to the home page. In this tutorial, we will help you to create a custom 404 error page for your Apache server. Create A Custom 404 Error Page First of all, create…

Apache Error code 404 means “file not found”. This is the error code when a user requested a web page or file which does not exists on the server. As per the SEO perspective, its not good to return 404 error code to user even requested file doesn’t exit. To solve this error, you can create a custom error page or redirect user to website home page. This tutorial will help you to redirect user to home page if 404 error occurred on server. Setup 404 Redirect to Homepage Edit .htaccess file under the document root of your Website hosted…

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 client on your Ubuntu system. Prerequisites In this tutorial, you will install Zoom client application on Ubuntu using snap packages. So, you must have install Snapd service on your system.…

NetBeans is a popular IDE for Java and other application development. Which allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. NetBeans is available to run on popular operating systems like Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris systems. This tutorial helps you to install Netbeans IDE on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux system. Prerequisites Apache NetBeans IDE requires Java 8 or later Java Development Kit installed on your system. To install Java on your system, execute the following command sudo apt install default-jdk Install Netbeans on Ubuntu We use the snap package to install Netbeans IDE…

NPM is the package manager for nodejs modules. It is used to install, update and remove packages from a nodejs application. In this tutorial you will learn how to find installed package version of modules on your system. You can use npm list command to search for local packages and npm list -g for globally installed packages. npm list ##List all locally installed packages npm list -a ##List all globally installed packages Find specific package version You can find the version of a specific package by passing its name as an argument. For example, npm list grunt will result in:…