In our previous article we saw How to install nginx using yum repository for RHEL/CentOS. Now lets see how to quickly configure nginx and start the service. Step 1: Make nginx start automatically during system startup. The chkconfig command allows you to configure services to start and stop automatically during the…
nginx spelled as “Engine X” is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. Initially it was used for running heavily loaded Russian sites including, Yandex, Mail.Ru, VKontakte and Rambler. According to Netcraft, an Internet service company which provides web server…
Tumblr a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp which was acquired by Yahoo! Inc on May 20, 2013. Many teenagers were attracted with tumblr, just because they are of less pressurized than Facebook and are relatively free from the eyes of parent and other adults. Tumblr’s…
Otterbox, the popular case maker for smartphones has introduced a new “Symmetry” series cases for iPhone 5s, 5c and Samsung Galaxy s4. With the Otterbox Symmetry, you can have style you want, without compromising on protection! The one-piece Symmetry case is available in a wild array of colors and graphics,…
NativeUnion a Californian company showed its combo cable/battery charger “Jump” at the CES 2014. The company says that it is the simplest ideas and those simple ideas are the best. Its a combination of Cable, Battery and Intelligent circuitry which makes Jump for simple charging and extra battery life on…
Intel heading to make “everything smart” on his way is focusing on wearable devices at ces 2014. To solve the problem of charging wearables, Intel unveiled a smart wireless charging bowl. During Intel’s CES keynote, a slide flashed this smart wireless charging bowl, among several other innovations. In a section…
3D systems a leading provider of 3D content-to-print solutions introduced its popular Sense 3D scanner an iPad version called the iSense. The iSense is ideal for physical photography, allowing users to easily scan objects in three-dimensions in real-time, without placing the object into a box as required with other 3D…
Holi announced that its 18-LED square mood light which is already available in Europe will also be available to US in march. Designed by FiveFive, a French start-up, Holi boats a sophisticated, understated and sleek design, making it a smooth addition to all decors. Underneath its aluminium frame, which is…
The company Withings is known to build health monitoring devices such as Smart Activity Tracker and the Smart Body Analyzer, has comeup with another new health monitoring device, the Aura, a smart device that lives near your bed. Aura is cleverly designed to monitor and improve your sleeping experience! Aura…
Orbotix, the maker of smartphone-controlled robotic ball toy Sphero, today announced a next generation, dubbed Sphero 2B. Unlike the original Sphero which was spherical in shape; the version 2B would be cylindrical two-wheel design, which means it offers a customizable tires and accessories for personalized driving experience. The product photos…
Smartpixel- an easy to use windows screen recorder and video editor software for YouTube videos. It includes two modules Smartpixel Camera and Smartpixel Producer. Smartpixel Camera – As a superior screen recording software, it has optimized the video clip capture mechanism drastically to significantly reduce the laptop resources occupancy for…
Until now Roku’s entertainment was through its set-top boxes (streaming players). But now, it is getting into the TV hardware business directly to provide consumers a simple and powerful entertainment experience in today’s connected world. Roku has partnered with top global TV manufacturers to place its software in television sets…
With the introduction of Apple’s A7 chipset on the iPhone 5s, 64-bit has become the latest technology buzz for manufacturers like Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Samsung and MediaTek. Qualcomm following Apple’s way has introduced its own 64-bit chipset – Snapdragon. Now its the turn of NVIDIA’s catching-up with Apple’s A7 and Qualcomm….
Millions of beautiful websites and blogs are powered by WordPress due to its SEO friendly feature. Started off in 2003 with fewer users, today it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. Recently wordpress released version 3.8 and named it as “Parker” in honor of Charlie Parker,…
While setting up wordpress 3.8, accessing through web browser, i ran into the following error: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. This is caused due to either you do not have mysql installed or mysql installed but don’t have the php-mysql…
Recently was installing wordpress 3.8 for a client on a Linux machine with CentOS distribution. The sytem had PHP 5.1.6 already installated. But the latest wordpress installation requires PHP 5.2.4 or later. So did yum install to find latest package to install and to my astonishment, how many times ever…
For trying out wordpress 3.8 installation, i had to upgrade my php installation from 5.1.6 to 5.2.4 or later version. Unfortunately, through yum, i couldn’t upgrade php! So the other option left was to install from source. Downloaded the latest stable version of php ie, 5.5.7 and started to compile….
Apache’s prime strength is its customizability and flexibility. Apache comes with the support for a large number of modules to perform few web serving tasks that itself cannot fulfill. One such module gaining popularity in recent times is Google’s mod_pagespeed that makes the website load much faster than ever. It does…
Recently one of our reader had a question : “How to encrypt and decrypt few files/folders in Linux preferably CLI based?” Here is the solution: To encrypt and decrypt files we shall use GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard), which is GNU’s tool for encryption and signing. GnuPG is a GPL Licensed implementation of OpenPGP (…