VirtueMart is an easy to use open source e-commerce component for the Joomla CMS. It offers plenty of features to create and maintain a website store with an unlimited number of categories, products, orders etc.
This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Linux virtual server.
At the time of writing this tutorial, VirtueMart 2.6.0 is the latest stable version available. VirtueMart 2.6.0 is compatible with Joomla 2.5 and it requires:
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How to install and use Rkhunter on a Linux server for rootkit, local exploits, malware and backdoors scanning
Rootkits and backdoors are often the worst type of compromise possible. To protect your server against rootkits, backdoors and other security problems it is recommended to install and use Rkhunter on your Linux VPS. Rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a very useful open source software utility that makes various checks on the local system and scans for known rootkits, local exploits, malware and backdoors. Rkhunter checks to see whether the binary files or system startup files have been modified, and performs various checks on the network interfaces, including checks for listening services and applications. Rkhunter runs on most Linux and UNIX systems. It can be run from the command line, but it can also be scheduled to execute on a daily basis as a cron job.
How to install Nagios3 and Check_MK on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VPS
The following article guides through the steps of installing and configuring Nagios3 and Check_MK on a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VPS.
Once deployed, you will be able to monitor your virtual servers and the services running on them.
Nagios3 is a robust and very powerful monitoring system, which in combination with Check_MK will provide you with a nice and easy way to monitor your virtual servers and services.
How to secure your SSH using two-step authentication on CentOS 6
There are several things you can do to secure and protect your SSH. One of them is to use Google Authenticator and create a two-factor authentication on your CentOS VPS. Google Authenticator gives you an extra layer of security by generating time based one-time passwords (TOTP) on your smartphone that you must enter along with your username and password in order to login to the server via SSH.
Install WordPress with HHVM, Nginx and MariaDB on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP. HHVM stands for HipHop Virtual Machine and it was initially developed by Facebook to boost up their application performance, and for those who don’t know MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. In this tutorial we will show you step by step how to install WordPress with HHVM, Nginx and MariaDB on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VPS.
Install Dotclear on a CentOS VPS
Dotclear is free and open source web publishing software written in PHP. It is very easy to manage allowing anyone to use it regardless of their technical skills. This blog article will show you how to install Dotclear on your CentOS VPS Hosting account in just a few easy steps.
Install Django CMS on Ubuntu 12.04 with MariaDB, Gunicorn and Nginx
In this blog post we will show you how to install the Django CMS on a Ubuntu VPS with MariaDB, Nginx and Gunicorn .
Django CMS is open source content management system based on the Web framework Django. Some of the main features include: Plugin-based, Pretty URLs, Permission management, Apps, Frontend-Editing, Analytics, Blog ..etc.
How to install and configure eXo Platform with Java and Apache as a reverse proxy
EXo Platform is an open source software written in Java which allow developers to build a modern social intranets, business portals with complete collaborative and content management features, websites, forums, wikis, workflows, work-spaces, activity streams and more – all in one single platform. The content can easily be aggregated in a secure and customizable way.
In this step-by-step tutorial, we will show you how to easily install eXo Platform on a Linux based virtual server.