14 results for: hostname
How to create a .onion domain for your website
The dark web, a hidden network accessed through the Tor browser, offers enhanced privacy and anonymity for websites. To establish a presence on the dark web, you can create a .onion domain for your website. A .onion domain is an address that can only be accessed through the Tor network.…
Category : Networking 06-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
Network attacks and how to avoid them
Nowadays it is impossible to list all the different types of attacks that can be carried out on a network, as in the world of security this varies continuously. We bring you the most common ones according to the network attack databases, so that we can keep up to date…
Category : Security 03-05-2021 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to Set up a Fully Functional Mail Server on Ubuntu 16.04 with iRedMail
Setting up your own mail server from scratch on Linux is complex and tedious, until you meet iRedMail. This tutorial is going to show you how you can easily and quickly set up a full-fledged mail server on Ubuntu 16.04 with iRedMail under 30 minutes. What is iRedMail? iRedMail is a shell…
Category : Networking 30-03-2023 by Janeth Kent
MYSQL: How to create a new user and give it full access only to 1 database
To create a new user in MySQL and give it full access only to 1 database, say dbTest, these are the MySQL commands to do that To create the user: CREATE USER 'user'@'hostname'; To give it access to the database dbTest: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbTest.* To 'user'@'hostname' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; If you are running…
Category : Databases 07-02-2018 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure the Mod_Security Core Ruleset in Ubuntu
ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall, a program that can be used to inspect information as it passes through your web server, intercepting malicious requests before they are processed by your web application. This tutorial will show you how to install ModSecurity on Apache, and configure it with some sensible rules provided…
Category : Servers 04-03-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Connect to a Remote Server via SSH from a Linux Shell
Introduction Secure Shell (SSH) is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting access to a remote computer. SSH is actually a suite of three utilities - slogin, ssh, and scp - that are secure versions of the earlier UNIX utilities, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. SSH commands are encrypted and…
Category : Servers 16-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Create a .ONION Website and Domain With Tor Network
Not a lot of people know about .onion websites, not many people actually use it. .ONION websites are used by people who want to stay anonymous. In addition, .onion websites are the first layer of the Deep Web. Which is basically described in the picture bellow As many websites say, the…
Category : Networking 02-11-2014 by Janeth Kent
How to import and export a large database using SSH
The following code snippets will allow you to import and export a database Command Line. To get SSH access to your hosts server you will need to contact your web hosting company, our suggestion is that you find a reliable, high-performing, secure hosting company that can help you. In case you are on a…
Category : Databases 25-06-2019 by Janeth Kent
How to Parse URLs with JavaScript: the The Easiest Way
Our favorite JavaScript trick is a technique for parsing URLs into parts (host, path, query string etc) that doesn’t require any libraries or advanced regular expressions. It uses only the power of the DOM, and the anchor element . Let us demonstrate: JS $(function(){ // The URL we want to parse var url = 'http://www.ma-no.org/en/content/index_top-12-free-javascript-resources-for-advanced-users-nbsp_1875.php?key=value#comments'; …
Category : Javascript 20-08-2013 by Janeth Kent
Setting the Hostname (FQDN) in Linux Servers
Here we will show how to set your system's hostname and fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Your hostname should be something unique. Some people name their servers after planets, philosophers, or animals. Note that the system's hostname has no relationship to websites or email services hosted on it, aside from providing…
Category : Networking 29-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Install and Setup SSL in Webmin and Apache
SSL is a protocol for making secure, authenticated connections across an insecure network like the Internet. It encrypts network traffic, so that an attacker cannot listen in on the network and capture sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers. It allows servers to authenticate themselves to clients, so…
Category : Networking 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Distributed Storage Across Multiple Servers (Nodes) With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling…
Category : Operating systems 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Setup VNC server for remote desktop management in Ubuntu 12.04
VNC is a protocol that is used to share the desktop with other users/computers over the network/Internet.In order to share a desktop, VNC server must be install and configure on the computer and VNC client must be run on the computer that will access the shared desktop. When we install…
Category : Networking 24-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
PHP get DNS Nameserver , Cname , MX , A records of a domain
PHP has a useful function called dns_get_record that can be used to get different types of records for a give domain , very easily. Nameserver - NS Records : $ php -a Interactive shell php > print_r(dns_get_record('www.binarytides.com' , DNS_NS)); Array ( => Array ( => binarytides.com => NS => omikro1.allwebserver.com => IN => 86140 ) => Array ( =>…
Category : Programming 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
