Archive for the 'Ubuntu' Category



Installing Custom Themes with Trac 10.x. Beautify your Development and set yourself Apart.

Ever wanted to install a new theme to your TRAC installation? Often we’ll want our development environments to look a little different from every other trac site on the Internet. We’d never tried to change the theme before, so decided to write a small tutorial on how it’s done for our archiving purposes, and for [...]

Tutorial on how to Install Apache, Subversion and Trac with Virtual Hosting suppor in Ubuntu Linux

We recently had to setup Apache, Subversion and Trac all within a virtual hosting environment for one of our Clients to be able to develop easily and effictively among team members. They wanted to use multiple domain names for separate projects. Made sense to us, so we started looking for instructions on setting this up.
We [...]

Installing Habari Blog on Ubuntu Server to Replace Wordpress

You may have heard of Habari, you may not have. It’s yet another blogging software, written from the ground up to take advantage of all the latest technologies available. For this reason it’s not supported everywhere and probably is why you haven’t heard of it yet.
I think this software could replace Wordpress if done correctly, [...]

Howto Setup Permissions for Joomla on Plesk with Ubuntu

Most of the howto’s or tutorials we came across about this problem all mention to install suphp and run php as a cgi through it. We weren’t happy with this solution, so we did something different.
Basically the problem is:
Plesk runs apache as “www-data:www-data” while the users are “username:psacln”. So, uploading via sftp or ftp will [...]

Remove Ubuntu Splash Screen from starting on boot

Here’s a simple way of changing your Ubuntu server so it won’t be using the splash screen. Great for seeing console, if you’re not using VESA or just plain being old school.
first:

# sudo nano /etc/grub/menu.lst

look for

# defoptions= quiet splash

change it to – important leave the # in the line.

# defoptions=

now just run the grub updating [...]

How to add a “Go To Nagios” button to nagios administrator

It’s easy, once you have nagiosadministrator installed, you’ll probably notice there’s no easy way to actually reach nagios. To add a quick button to the toolbar to do this, follow these steps:
 
1. SSH to server running nagios/nagiosadministrator
2. Go to your nagios administrator directory, ours is /var/www/nagiosadmin
3. Now, edit the menu file
# nano apps/backend/lib/topMenu.class.php
4. Now, change [...]