First login into your server with the root login details cd /home/cpapachebuild/buildapache/apache_1.3.31/src/modules/proxy/ or cd /home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.0.63/modules/proxy Then run command: /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -c *.c Add the following module to the httpd.conf to load proxy module with the httpd configuration file: LoadModule proxy_module libexec/mod_proxy.so And then restart the Apache service: service httpd restart or /etc/init.d/httpd restart You can […]

Basically most of the people don’t like to run shoutcast as root as that can be really harmful due to that its better if we create shoutcast user and then run shoutcast on server. Following are the basic steps to install shoutcast on server 1.) Login to root 2.) adduser shoutcast 3.) passwd shoutcast Once you add user […]

Refer following step by step instructions to install VNC 1) As root user fire the commands yum install vnc-server xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11 twm xterm 2) if yum is not working, download the rpm using “wget http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/CentOS/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/vnc-server-4.0-8.1.i386.rpm” 2.1) install vncserver by the command “rpm -Uvh vnc-server-4.0-8.1.i386.rpm” 3) start vncserver by “vncserver :0“. You will be asked for […]

You can patch openssl version by using following steps but make sure that you are able to SSH server as root user user. root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#cd /usr/local/src root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8h.tar.gz root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#tar -zxf openssl-0.9.8h.tar.gz root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#cd openssl-0.9.8h root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#./Configure –prefix=/usr debug-linux-pentium (or choose right os) root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#make root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#make install To check openssl version simply run openssl version root@gunjan[/usr/local/src]#openssl version  

To install Eaccelerator manually refer following steps one by one carefully. 1. First you need to login into shell as root user 2. Now we’ll make the eaccelerator directory: root@gunjan[]#cd ~ root@gunjan[~]#mkdir /eaccelerator/ root@gunjan[~]#cd /eaccelerator/ 2. Now download the source file root@gunjan[~]#wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/eaccelerator/eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar.bz2 root@gunjan[~]#bzip2 -d eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar.bz2 root@gunjan[~]#tar xvf eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1.tar 3. Now install Eaccelerator: root@gunjan[~]#cd eaccelerator-0.9.4-rc1/ […]

First you need to login into shell as root user than follow the steps one by one. [root@gunjan]#mkdir /root/support  && cd /root/support [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm -Uvh gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm -Uvh readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm -Uvh python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm -Uvh libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm -Uvh libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-8.2.1.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm -Uvh expat-1.95.8-8.2.1.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm [root@gunjan]#rpm […]

First you need to download the latest stable kernel. You can check it at http://kernel.org/. Download it : root@server [~]# cd /usr/local/src/ root@server [~]# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ Select latest Kernel and download it root@server [~]# tar –zxvf linux-2.6.28.tar.gz root@server [~]#cd linux-2.6.28 root@server [~]# make clean root@server [~]# make mrproper root@server [~]# uname -r root@server [~] # cp […]

Following are the steps to install FFmpeg + FFmpeg-PHP + Mplayer + Mencoder + flv2tool + LAME MP3 Encoder + Libog on a Linux server or VPS Hosting Manually. There are many automated scripts available which install these but its better to do it manually as in case of an error occuring during the installation process, we can stop […]

RKHunter – (RootKit Hunter) is a security scanning tool which will scan for rootkits, backdoors, and local exploits. It is an intrustion detection program for Linux OS which has been widely used by many server administrators. Sometimes there is a false alarm but most of the time you need to check the problematic areas Rkhunter points […]