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[HowTo] Enable or disable modules in Apache

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:14:47 +0000

You can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these commands is really simple: To enable a module: sudo a2enmod module_name To disable a module: sudo a2dismod module_name For instance, [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Use mutt with msmtp

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:12:14 +0000

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Msmtp is a smtp client which is available for Linux as well as windows. Configuring mutt to work with msmtp is fortunately quite easy. Here’s a tutorial teaching the same. Step 1: Find the executable path of msmtp: which msmtp Step [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Send emails(using mail function) from localhost in PHP through msmtp (using gmail account) on Linux

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:08:27 +0000

There’ve been lots of times when I wanted to use the mail() function on my local server. I am sure lots of you would’ve been wanting it too but most of you would’ve settled for PHPMailer or just used a web host to test the code instead. I myself had been doing the same until [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Configure msmtp to work with gmail on linux

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:38:57 +0000

Msmtp is a small but powerful and highly customizable smtp client. You can access gmail smtp using msmtp, which is exactly what I’ll teach in this tutorial. Step by step instructions: Install msmtp and ca-certificates for use with SSL: sudo apt-get install msmtp ca-certificates We’ll create and edit the configuration file using Gedit: sudo gedit [...]Related posts:

[SOLVED] No module named gtkhtml2

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:11:27 +0000

I came across this error while trying to run BloGTK. I tried installing it from repositories but it failed: sudo apt-get install python-gtkhtml2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package python-gtkhtml2 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] 5 methods to find out your linux distribution name and version through command line

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:20:19 +0000

There are lots of commands to find out your ditribution name and distribution version. Some work on some distros, some work on others. Here are some of the methods: lsb_release -a cat /etc/*release cat /etc/issue cat /proc/version uname -a One of these methods will surely tell you your linux distribution name and current version. Cheers! [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Reset MySQL root password on Ubuntu when you’ve forgotten it

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:38:53 +0000

To err is human. Humans forget things, MySQL root password is one of those things. However, its not very difficult to reset the root password if you have root access to the machine. The tutorial does seem a bit long because of all the alternate ways to kill and start the mysqld, but trust me [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Download youtube video from command-line

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:27:35 +0000

Linux is awesome and so is the terminal. Things become a lot more easy if you can just type in few commands and get your work done. Downloading youtube video has always been messy with GUI downloaders, browser extensions and web services which claim to give you the download link to that video. Now, you [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Use local phpmyadmin with remote MySQL

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:33:43 +0000

My host recently started allowing remote connections to its mysql database. It was a really useful feature – I could not change database settings from my own computer. Since it started allowing remote connections from my IP, I could use any mysql client to connect to it. I fired up terminal and tried to connect [...]Related posts:

13 cool themes for Linux

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:12:23 +0000

Those of who are bored of the dull themes of Linux, I found 13 cool new themes for Linux. Bisigi Themes provide 13 free themes, each has its own icon-set, wallpaper, and color scheme. Just a few terminal commands are needed to install them. Installation instructions of Bisigi Themes Few people have complained that the [...]Related posts: