How to install/run PhoneGap on Ubuntu

Hybrid mobile application development is a hot topic these days. PhoneGap is one of the frameworks that can be used to develop hybrid mobile apps. If you are new to hybrid mobile application development read this post. You only have to follow these steps to have a PhoneGap app up and running in your Ubuntu. Before that, What’s PhoneGap PhoneGap is a free and open source framework…

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Apache with mod_proxy as a reverse proxy

So mod_proxy This module implements a proxy/gateway for Apache. It implements proxying capability for AJP13 (Apache JServe Protocol version 1.3), FTP, CONNECT (for SSL), HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, and HTTP/1.1. The module can be configured to connect to other proxy modules for these and other protocols. This post also can be named as “How to setup a proxy passer(ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse) in Apache2” because today we are going to look…

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What? How? Why? When? Monit

What Monit? Let me explain about the utility. It has the ability to start a process if it is not running, restart a process if not responding and stop a process if uses high resources. In simple words it’s a helpful program that automatically monitors and manages server programs/resources to ensure that they stay online 24/7 while maintaining the correct file size, checksum and permissions. It’s important…

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rsync with Practical Examples

rsync(remote sync) commonly found on Unix-like systems which is a remote/local file synchronisation utility where It uses an algorithm that minimises the amount of data copied by only moving the portions of files that have changed. Without beating around the bush let’s get our hands dirty. I found this link really interesting. Also check out this link for the difference between scp and rsync. Basic syntax…

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Hardening & Securing Apache HTTP Server

How’s it going people? Everyone wants 100% secure applications but the problem is do 100% applications exist in the world? Answer is ‘Nope’. That’s bad but you can secure your application up to a certain extend by applying security. Hope you have read my last two articles on PHP Security. Article 1 & Article 2 where you can apply security at the application level. it’s time for…

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