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Generate SPF Record

SPF records are required for the EMail address verification by most of the email servers now a days. To help you generate the correct SPF record for your domain…

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Adding mssql support in php5 on Debian or Ubuntu

To add/install MSSQL support in PHP5 on Debian linux server, follow the below steps: Install FreeTDS and the PHP MS SQL extension sudo apt-get install freetds-c…

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Configuring Horde Vacation Responder in Plesk 9

Today I had to work on the Plesk server webmail vacation responder settings, and looking at the Horde webmail option I found that this is not available in the d…

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Wordpress update issue on Plesk Control Panel hosting

Most of us work with Wordpress and while working we use the handy auto update feature in the admin panel to update the Wordpress plug-ins and core. On Plesk con…

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Additional FTP user for a sub folder in Plesk controlled domain

Assuming you already have an existing domain (example.com) with the primary FTP user (foo) with home directory (/var/www/vhosts/example.com), and you wish to cr…

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Setting include path for a domain in Plesk

If you need to use PEAR library functions in your web applications. Sometimes you may need to set the path to pear files for your domain so that the PEAR librar…

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Apache Keep Alive Directive

Today, I was analysing a website for performance improvements using the Page Speed tool by Google. One interesting thing I found out that it was recommending to…

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Installing Skype on Fedora 14

Download the latest Skype rpm from the Skype website, current version is skype beta 2.1.x. There are some prerequisites which need to be installed for Skype to …

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Installing Adobe Air 2.x on Fedora 14 64 bit

First change to root user: sudo -i Install xterm: yum install xterm Install Fedora 32 bit dependencies:

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Migration to Debian linux from Windows Vista - Day 1

Since I have started developing web applications, it was my dream to migrate to Linux OS some day. But due to the lack of knowledge and to avoid the pain of con…

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