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Hey, Im a little new to apache and have just installed it on my ubuntu remix netbook, ive got it working fine but for some reason its not doing anything in the .htaccess files, ive created some random directorys inside /var/www/... and put a .htaccess which only has "deny from …

I've got a linux ubuntu media server running in my house but I've got two small problems with it. How can I set it with a perminate IP so I will not have to physically go to the box each time I turn it on to check the IP? Also, …

I'M reading "Linux + Guide to Linux Certification" and I've come to samba and I'M having trouble understanding a few things. The book says I need to add a username and password on the Linux system that corresponds to the username and password on the Windows clients? And then another …

I am attempting to host multiple sites on a single server by using virtual hosts however I am having a bit of an issue. A bit of info before I begin, -I am using Ubuntu Server 12.04 -I am using Apache2 -I have two domains and two sites, stored in …

I just installed Ubuntu Server but I'M not getting any network activity, let alone an internet connection. When I type ifconfig I only get the local ip address of 127.0.0.1. I have connect the eth0 port to one of the open ports on my wireless router and I'M still getting …

I am attempting to setup virtual hosts so that I can host multiple sites on Apache2. I have currently got two files in my /etc/apache2/sites-available folder, each containing the following: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.domain.com ServerAlias domain.com DirectoryIndex index.php DocmentRoot /var/www/domain </VirtualHost> Obviously the 'domain' changes to the domain for the …

First of all, i apologise for my english... I am from Slovenia. So, lets get to the point. I am writting a research projet at collage (Computer Science) and i am writting about clone. I done it all, but stuck on the last exercise. I must write a program, that …

hi everyone , I installed wireshark on my ubuntu 11.10 laptop ,but it tells me no interfaces can be used for capturing with this configuration , so how can I solve this problem ?? Thanks in advance.

When I plug in my headphone, the speaker still sounds, how to solve this problem please, I can use alsamixer to adjust the total volume, but I just want the speaker stopped making sound after I plug in my headphone...Thanks for helping...:-)

I'M trying to move an 11 gig .tar.gz file that is pretty much one of my home usernames from my ubuntu laptop to my fedora desktop, here's what I'M getting. developer@garrett-laptop:~$ scp developer@192.168.1.9:/home/develope/fromlaptopsaveDeveloper.tar.gz garrett@192.168.1.5:/home/developer/Desktop developer@192.168.1.9's password: Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). lost …

Hi all, i am new to ubuntu. I am using fire ftp for downloading my project locally in ubuntu but when i click on download, it says "Failed to create directory locally". Is it some root permission issue? if yes, then how i can download my project?

I have been having some problems with my domain, when it reaches my server the address changes to my IP. I 'own' the domain, "www.domain.com" which is forwared to my router, my router then points it to my server and the pages are displayed e.t.c. Instead of displaying, "www.domain.com/index.php" it …

Hi all. I am just beginning to play with Linux, so I have some very noob-ish questions. I am using the Cygwin console on a Windows 7 computer, connecting to a server running a Gentoo kernel. At the moment, I am exploring some of the *real* basic commands: cp, pwd, …

Ok, so I have just set up a server using Ubuntu Server 12.04 but I have hit a bit of a brick wall when attempting to view webpages. I chown'ed the /var/www folder so I could add my files to it and all is working fine from this front but …

Hello, anyone can tell me how I can fix the "Login timed out after 60 seconds" error, when the system is not even taking 60 seconds, since as soon as it loads, it gives this error when am trying to enter my login details. I have access to the system's …

I have windows 7 and backtrack linux on the same system and i am dual booting them. now i want to remove the "windows 7" partition from my disk and use it to expand my linux OS HDD size. Thanks....

I am complete new in linux. And i want to know that how to make AD-HOC network using WPA_supplicant? Any help

Ok so i have downloaded backtrack 5 r2. I have tried to setup the proxy chains but when i try to open a website with this proxies i get this error: |D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:9050-<--timeout I dont know why it timeout, but what can i do to fix it. and were can i …

I have downloaded backrack linux 5 R2 but when i try to configure my firewall i dont find a place where i can do that, i only find proxy settings, no what is a proxy, is it the sam as a firewall. how can i set up my proxy to …

Hello everyone, First of all, i am not a Ubunto, Linux, or any of these OS user. But i tried to dump a Bios ROM using Ubunto platform, but i'am getting this error: ERROR: FlashROM tool not found! then i get this alert: Try: 'sudo apt-get install flashrom' in debian-based …

hello everyone Of late, our company has been getting attacks from someone on the internet and this has led us to being black listed. The administrator thinks its through my machine that the attacker is gaining access. I use ubuntu 10.04.3 on a windows network. How can I tell if …

I am trying to get iptables to block multiple ssh attempts, and having only partial success (Ubuntu 10.4 LTS). I've been following recommendations from the [URL="http://www.la-samhna.de/library/brutessh.html"]excellent post by Rainer Wichmann[/URL] and decided the best strategy suited for my system is simply having iptables block multiple attempts at ssh. Thus I …

i have biught a sony VAIO the specs are: Harddics: 500 GB Ram: 2GB CPU: 1.65 GHz will any linux os work on this laptop, at the moment i am runnig windows 7 starter. Maby linux redhat or so.... Thankyou:?:

hey guys, I'm studying to be a pro C++/Java programmer and are currently working in Ubuntu, is this a suitable choice? Or is there a more suitable linux distro?

Hi all, I am attempting to install [URL="http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/"]sshdfilter[/URL] on my ubuntu 10.4 LTS machine. This package is supposed to block ssh-bruteforce attacks. It does that by adding blocking rules to iptables when multiple bad ssh logins are detected, and blocks the ip that initiated them. This package usually relies on …

Hi All, I have inherited a web site which is really a bit beyond me ... there's no option though, I've got to figure it out, so ... The whole site uses Apache/Python/Django/Satchmo. I want to set up a sub-domain which uses a simple Apache/PHP set up. I'm guessing that …

hi everyone I have been using ubuntu for a while and I have recently switched to ubuntu 11.10 well I can't find the root terminal also su command always gives me authorization failure and I don't know why . So any help?? Thanks in advance

I am using Fedora Linux on VMware. When I start it up, it doesn't ask for username or password. I tried doing useradd on the terminal and it says I don't have permission. Is it because I didn't install it right, or I have to do something else? Or is …

Keep getting this message and it's rather annoying, google is no help at all. I keep getting a different ID every single time as well. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Broadcast message from root (Tue Feb 28 08:59:16 2012): FONmon: Apache PID mistmatch -> fpid: 10464 != mpid:

Hi all, I am using Ubuntu 10.4 LTS and I need to get telnet server on my machine to work (connect) to localhost at port 4242. I tried: [ICODE] ~> telnet localhost 4242 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [/ICODE] *telnet [B]does[/B] work …

Hi there, I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but I am currently working with an HPC machine for business use and it is currently running Ubuntu 11.04 (I have yet to update due to software incompatibilities). Anyways, some of the users would prefer to …

Is it possible to develop Win32 C++ applications under a Linux distribution? If it is then how do I do this? I know about Virtual machines, but I'm looking for something that wouldn't require to emulate a whole OS.

I use a eeepc and had ubuntu natty 10.** and all worked well but reverted to eeebuntu as not enough memory. I had a Kingston 4GB ext 4 formatted sd memory stick but now eeebuntu says that it can only read ext 3. So do I upgrade (and lose memory) …

Hi everybody, I just set up a LAMP server with cPanel/WHM. I then tried to install WordPress, but I received this error: [ICODE]Input file not specified.[/ICODE] I did a search on Google, but nothing relevant turned up. I then posted on the WordPress forum, and somebody told me it is …

When i start my laptop fedora ask me from witch os i would like to boot. Here are the options given by the system: Fedora (3.2.6-3.fc16.i686) Fedora Linux, wiht Linux 3.1.0-7,fc16.i686 Fedora Linux, wiht Linux 3.1.0-7,fc16.i686 ( recovery mode ) those are the three options it gives me. how do …

i have tried to install clamav antivirus on linux fedora but it give the following error: Package /home/user/Downloads/clamav-0.96.1-1.el3.rf.x86_64.rpm has incompatible architecture x86_64. Valid architectures are ['athlon', 'i686', 'i586', 'i486', 'i386', 'noarch'] how can i fix this and how can i get the one that will work on my system. thankyou:-/

I hav installed linux fedora, now in windows there was a "my computer". Where you could find your c drive. Where is that on linux fedora. i have fedora 16. ooh and what antivirus is good for linux fedora. i want a free antivirus. thank you:-/

Hi, I am using windows XP now i want to switch to Linux. Only bcoz i thought i cud use free software as possible as i can. Currently there are only three things which im using are illegal 1. OS (Windows XP) 2. Photoshop CS2 3. Dreamweaver 8 Im working …

I need mod_security rules to prevent Googlebot from indexing any file named browse.php anywhere on the server, while still allowing Googlebot to access anything else. I figured mod_security will do the trick because it can recognize user-agents and set rules accordingly. Any ideas?

I use this as anti-hotlink protection for images. example.com is the domain which is allowed to hotlink images while all other domains are denied. This code also allows direct requests to image files using a browser's URL bar, but not hotlinking from another site. [code] RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ …

I need good advice on simple small linux to use on eeepc 4g early asus machine I have used xp, linux natty nahwal and others but all use too much resources and I want to completly start again (including mem card) any easy suggestions very welcome and how to do …

I know this question is extremelly hard to answer without actually checking how I setup my server, but I wondered if anyone could give me a quick rundown and/or information as to how I could check and protect it further. I am running a Web Hosting Server using old computer …

I am wanting to set up a home server using an old computer, after doing some costs it would work out considerably cheaper than using a hosting service, and although less reliable I feel it would be some good and valuable experience. I have installed Ubuntu server edition onto my …

On my computer, I have Ubuntu 11.1 and Kubuntu 11.1 installed as dual-boot. When I started, I specified completely separate partitions for both of them, but I now realize I want them to share the same home folder, i.e. the same desktop (I keep everything on my desktop). Any way …

Hello I've installed phpmyadmin using the command apt-get install phpmyadmin, however am unable to open its login page in my web-browser when I type [url]http://localhost/phpmyadmin[/url] Installation was done properly and I can view the MySQL server from the webmin page. Error is: Not Found The requested URL /phpmyadmin was not …

I have installed ubuntu 11.04 using wubi installer inside windows.I am not able to find sysconfig in etc folder.I need to change the auto eth0 settings.And I accidentally deleted the auto eth0 configuration.Any way i can get it back.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Prasanna

Hi, I am attempting to build a PHP based CMS, and a custom template system, these items I do not believe I would have a problem with. However its about the server environment. For example I would want to place instructions in the html code, in the form of html …

In setting up an embedded system, a Linux box needed to have a read-only root partition. However, the OS must be able to write to certain files (the drive was partitioned into /, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var with the only read-only being / ). So I created symbolic links to …

I see in the tag cloud Ubuntu is liked a lot but perhaps the members think differently. So I thought I would ask which is the one true Linux distribution. From all the Linux distributions which one is the only one that can be titled pure Linux nothing more nothing …

I normally mount my windows share as follow: [code]mount -t cifs //192.xxx.x.xx/share -o username="username' password="pass" /mnt/mountPoint [/code] now I am trying to mount my epson scanner which has a SD card that can be shared on the network. I did the same command but it failed to mount. pinging the …