Install Open Source Social Network on Ubuntu 16.04

Install Open Source Social Network on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we are going to provide you with step by step instructions on how to install Open Source Social Network with Apache on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP used by website developers to create social networking websites. The installation process is easy and it takes only a couple of minutes.

At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Open Source Social Network is 4.2 and it requires:

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Install XWiki on Ubuntu 16.04

 

Install XWiki on Ubuntu 16.04
Install XWiki on Ubuntu 16.04

 

installing xwiki on ubuntu 16.04We’ll show you, how to install XWiki on Ubuntu 16.04. XWiki is a free and open source advanced wiki software platform written in Java. It runs on servlet containers like JBoss, Tomcat etc. which uses a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to store its information. There are several methods of installing XWiki. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install XWiki on Ubuntu 16.04 using .DEB  packages. The method of installing XWiki on Ubuntu using .DEB packages is probably the fastest and easiest way because all components needed by XWiki for a production instance are automatically installed on the server. We will use a VPS with Ubuntu 16.04 but you should be able to install XWiki following this tutorial on all Debian based Linux distributions. Installing XWiki on Ubuntu 16.04 is a fairly easy task and it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to finish it.

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How To Set Up Apache with HTTP/2 on Ubuntu 16.04

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We’ll show you, How To Set Up Apache with HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is the first major HTTP protocol update since 1997. The main goal of HTTP/2 is to decrease latency, reduce total number of TCP connections, thus improve page load speed in web browsers. HTTP/2 is backwards-compatible with HTTP/1.1, all application semantics of HTTP are the same, except the way of transmitting data via TCP connection. HTTP/2 leverages multiplexing and allows asynchronous (parallel) requests and provides data compression of HTTP headers. Also, the server push method in HTTP/2 allows server to send multiple responses for a single request.

HTTP/2 support is not included in Ubuntu 16.04, neither with nginx nor with Apache because this feature is considered as experimental by the Apache httpd upstream project, so it is not possible to enable it on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS using the a2enmod command:

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Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 16.04

Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 16.04

We’ll show you how to Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 16.04. Ruby on Rails is a full stack web application framework which provides default structures for databases, web services and web pages. It is used by many developers since it makes the application development very simple. In this tutorial we will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system.

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Install PostgreSQL with phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04

Install PostgreSQL with phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu

We’ll show you, how to Install PostgreSQL with phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that is suited for large databases and has many advanced features. Its emphasis is on extensibility and standards-compliance. PostgreSQL can handle workloads ranging from small single-machine applications to large Internet-facing applications with many concurrent users. Installing PostgreSQL with phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04, is an easy and doesn’t take much time, follow the steps in this tutorial and you will be able to create and manage databases in PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04, in few minutes. PostgreSQL is available for many operating systems few of which are Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows.

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How to install WildFly on Ubuntu 16.04

How to install WildFly on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step by step instructions on how to install WildFly with Nginx as a reverse proxy on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.
WildFly is a flexible and lightweight open source application server authored by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat.
At the moment of writing this article, WildFly 10 is the latest release in a series of JBoss open-source application server offerings.

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Install VSFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04

Install VSFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04

installing VSFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation and configuration of VSFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04. VSFTPD is an initialism of Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. It is free and open source, fast, stable, lightweight and very secure FTP server for Unix and Linux operating systems, authorized under the GNU General Public License. VSFTPD is one of the most used FTP servers for Linux and it is used as a default FTP server in some of the biggest Linux distros such as CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL. Installing VSFTP on Ubuntu is an easy task, carefully follow the steps below and you should have it installed in less than 10 minutes.

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