WordPress is a free and open source website and blogging tool and it is the most popular CMS (content management system) on the internet. It allows you to easily set up flexible blogs and websites on top of a MySQL backend with PHP processing. This article describes “How to install WordPress on Linux with bash script”. Bash script automatically downloads and installs the latest version of WordPress in any place of your choice.Installing LAMPTo install and run WordPress on your system, pre-installation on your web server is required.Use the following command to install LAMP web server.$ sudo apt-get install lamp-server^The ... Read More

In this article, we will learn about how to install and setup Sphinx on Ubunt 16.04, Sphinx is an open source search engine which allows for full test searches, and is best in performing searches with a huge data very effectively where the data can be from any sources, (Ex − SQL Databases, plain text files, etc., )Features of the SphinxAdvanced indexes and good tool for querying.High Searching performance and indexes.Advances result for post-processing.Easily scalable with advanced searches.Can be integrated with SQL and XML sources.Can be scalable for handing the huge data with 1000’s of queries.PrerequisitesBefore we begin we needed ... Read More

Symfony is a full-stack, open-source PHP framework. It’s well known for its independent components which can be easily integrated into any other PHP project. The Symfony framework is suitable for building personal home page applications of any length, consisting of console programs supposed to run only at the command line. This article explains about – How to install and get started with symfony 2 on Ubuntu.Before we get started out, we’ll want to put in PHP for the command line environment. To install the php7.0-cli package, use the following command-$ sudo apt-get install php7.0-cliYou should now have PHP installed on ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to install and configure R on Ubuntu 16.01. “R” is an open-source programming language which can be specially used for statistical computing and performing analytical data. Where “R” has the community well know for the packages generated by the users in a specific area of study. We will install the “R” package using the CRAN (Comprehensive “R” Archive Network).PrerequisitesWe need a Linux machine install with Ubuntu 16.04 server with a minimum of 1 GB of RAM.A non-root user with Sudo permissions on the machine.Adding the CRAN repository to the Machine and Install R ... Read More

In this article, we will learn about how to install and configure the Nginx Web server. Nginx is the most popular web server where some of the most popular and high traffic sites are hosted where it is more friendly and secured than Apache and it is also used as a web server.PrerequisitesUbuntu 16.04 installed on the machine with a non-root user with sudo permissions on the machine.Installing the Nginx in MachineWe can install the Nginx, which is available on Ubuntu’s default repository so can directly install the Nginx using the apt command.Before we install the Nginx we needed to ... Read More

Fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, it is similar to ping hence, it allows users to check if a remote host is up or down.Using Fping command, we can check multiple hosts at a time. This article describes “How to install Fping command and uses of Fping command”Installing Fping commandTo install Fping command, use the following command –$ sudo apt-get install fpingThe sample output should be like this –Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:    gtk2-engines-pixbuf libbs2b0 libopusfile0 ... Read More

Go is a free and open source programming language created by Google in 2007. It supplies convenient to construct simple, nontoxic, and effective programs. This language is designed for writing on servers. This article explains about ‘How to install Go 1.7 on Ubuntu’Installing Go Programming languageTo download Go language binary archive file, use the following command –$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7.1.linux-amd64.tar.gzThe sample output should be like this –--2016-12-29 10:49:44-- https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz Resolving storage.googleapis.com (storage.googleapis.com)... 216.58.197.48, 2404:6800:4007:807::2010 Connecting to storage.googleapis.com (storage.googleapis.com)|216.58.197.48|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 81618401 (78M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ‘go1.7.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz’ go1.7.1.linux-amd64 100%[===================>] 77.84M 5.98MB/s in 16s ... Read More

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under the production of Linux/UNIX servers but due to its simplicity and small size it can be used on embedded devices as well. This article explains about “How to install Minitorix on Ubuntu”.Adding the Monitorix RepositoryTo add the Monitorix Repository, open /etc/apt/sources.list file as shown below –$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.listThe sample output should be like this –# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 16.04 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160420.1)]/ xenial main restricted # See ... Read More

“More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.” – Boris BeizerWell, designing and maintaining the testing activities involves a lot of attention and takes precious times of the team. The pain of organizing the test cases, test suits, then keeping the records of the test results phases after phases, tracking the bugs, and then maintaining those various reports and metrics, a quality assurance person can understand who actually performs all those activities. Also tracing the requirements against a particular test case is another painful task when needed.How about a ... Read More

In this article, we will learn – How to install and configure the Puppet 4 on Ubuntu 16.04. Puppet is a configuration management tool which helps in the automation of tasks with respect to system administrators. These type of tools will save a lot of time and effort too.Pre-requisitesHere in this article, we need at least two to three Ubuntu machines with the following requirements.All the machines with a non-root user with Sudo permissions on the machine.One Puppet masterOne or two puppet agents to test the configuration.Configuring the Host FilesAll the server and clients needed to communicate with the host ... Read More