This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users an easy way to get Flarum working on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 7.1 support. If you’re looking for a feature-rich, efficient and free community forum platform, then you may want to consider Flarum. Install Nginx HTTP Server Nginx HTTP Server is the second most popular web server in use. so install it, since Flarum needs it....

Fork CMS is a user-friendly open-source content management system (CMS) built on the LAMP or LEMP stack. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, ForkCMS can help you manage great content on every device. If you currently running your website and content on other CMS like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla and they’re not working right for you, then you may want to give ForkCMS a try. It’s a great alternative to those PHP-based content management systems....

Our previous tutorial showed you how to install GLPI on Ubuntu with an Apache2 web server. This one shows you how to use Nginx instead. GLPI is a free, open-source ITSM platform built with PHP that allows IT decisions makers with large IT infrastructures to solve problems efficiently when they emerge while getting insights into every IT asset in the company with automated inventory discovery. GLPI comes with inventory management that automatically discovers computers, peripherals, and network printers, including asset lifecycle management, incidents, requests, problems and changes management, and many more....

Our previous tutorial showed you how to install MantisBT on Ubuntu with an Apache2 web server. This one shows you how to use it with Nginx instead. MantisBT is an open source issue tracker platform designed to be flexible and user-friendly and helps a tool you collaborate with different teams to resolve bugs and issues as quickly and professionally as possible. For more about Mantis, please check its homepage To get started with installing Mantis, follow the steps below:...

Pydio is an open-source file-sharing and sync platform that fits your infrastructure and provides a single point of access to all your data storage. It is an alternative to software such as ownCloud and Nextcloud that provide storage services, file sharing, and sync. If you’re looking for an enterprise file-sharing platform similar to Dropbox and other storage platforms that you can host in your environments, then Pydio is a good place to start....

This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install and configure Varnish with Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 | 17.10. In this post, we’ll set up Varnish to be the doorway or front-end to Apache2 to quickly serve HTTP requests. When you configure Varnish to be the font-end to Apache2 or other web servers, it can greatly enhance the server’s performance. This is because Varnish stores web caches in the system’s memory ensuring faster retrieval in subsequent requests for the same resource....

When you connect a printer to your PC or add a new printer to your home network, you can usually start printing right away. In many cases, you won’t have to install a printer driver for your printer to work. Windows 11 comes with many printer drivers already installed and ready to use. By default, Windows automatically make the last printer used as your default printer. Your default printer is automatically selected in your print dialog box....

Ubuntu Linux comes with a feature known as sticky keys which are there to help people who can’t hold multiple keys on the keyboard at once. For example, to copy a text or files, one can simply use the CTRL + C keys to get it done. However, everyone can do that. When you enable sticky keys, copying can also be done by pressing the CTRL key, and then the C key to doing the same function, without the need to hold down CTRL while pressing the C key....

Windows comes with a feature called Storage Sense that can automatically free up drive space for you by getting rid of items that you don’t need, like temporary files and items in your Recycle Bin. By default, Storage Sense is disabled and only works on your Windows system drive only, and typically has a drive label Local Disk (C:) when enabled. Even though the feature is disabled by default, Windows may turn on Storage Sense to manage select temporary files, then notify you....

Microsoft releases Windows updates and patches, which are good for your computers every month. In most cases, you won’t know or isn’t clear when each update was installed if you need to go back and resolve some issues which started after Windows updates. If you recently updated Windows and find out that your Windows computer isn’t working normally, you can review the recent updates and remove the problem files that are causing your machine not to work....

Flash is a plug-in for your web browser that allows you to watch videos and use interactive web pages on some websites. While HTML5, which is a more modern solution, is increasingly offered, there are still some websites that won’t work without Flash. If you do not have Flash installed, you will probably see a message telling you so when you visit a website that needs it. Flash is available as a free (but not open-source) download for most web browsers....

Use the desktop clients to keep your files synchronized between your OwnCloud server and your desktop. It supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux systems. If you want your files and data synchronized across all your devices, you’ll want to install the client. Whether you’re a small or large enterprise, the OwnCloud desktop client can help your team communicate and collaborate and these conversations will be available on the desktop, mobile devices, and everywhere you have the OwnCloud client installed....

Windows 11 comes with many cool features and a refreshing new graphical interface, including a centered Start menu and taskbar, rounded corners windows, themes, and colors that make any Windows device stand out. These fancy changes can also confuse students and new users. Old ways that most are familiar with are buried deep and hidden from the average users. Now there are new ways to do things and we’re going to show you here....

By default, your Windows device with Wi-Fi adapters will allow users to enable or disable the ability to connect to a Wi-Fi network. No special actions are needed. Administrators can also limit the ability of users to turn on or off Wi-Fi connections using the registry editor in Windows. These settings in the Windows registry will allow or disallow WiFi connection. The most restricted value is 0. The following list shows the supported values:...

There are many reasons why a Windows computer can run slowly. There might be system update issues, starting up many programs when Windows boots, system drivers issues, and many more. One area that can also improve Windows system performance is to allow Windows to automatically manage its page file size. By default, this is the case. However, if you previously turn on the manual page file size and experiencing slowness, changing to the automatic page file size should help improve performance....

Windows 11 has two ways to automatically change the desktop background wallpaper. One is to use its slideshow feature where you select a folder with pictures to change at intervals. The other is to use Windows Spotlight. Windows Spotlight lets users set up their desktop background to automatically connect to Microsoft servers to discover and download random images from around the world. These two features come with the Themes settings on the Personalization page....

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to use mysqldump to quickly back up MySQL databases on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 servers. Other tools such as phpMyAdmin and MySQL workbench can be used to manage and backup SQL databases. However, when dealing with large databases, the quickest and easiest tool to use is mysqldump. The file created by the mysqldump command contains all the database structure and data, a set of SQL statements to create database objects, and the dumped file can be a CSV, delimited or XML file....

DPI is the physical measurement of the number of individual dots that can be placed in a linear inch of a display. DPI settings change the size of the text, apps, icons, and other items in Windows. Most displays in use today are in the range of 95-110 DPI with Windows defaulting to 96 DPI. A lower DPI setting will make items appear smaller while settings that are higher make them appear bigger on the screen....

Windows 11 comes with a standard mouse pointer color and size which is small and white. The default white color usually isn’t helpful especially for people with poor vision. With the use of wide screens and higher resolutions, it can be difficult to spot the mouse pointer across bigger areas of the screen or even double screens. The good this is Windows allows you to change the color of the mouse pointer to add contrast....

If you’re using HTTPS or going to be using it on your websites, then HSTS is something you might want to configure as well. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a security policy that helps protect against downgrade attacks and cookies hijacking. When configured, your web server enforces strict HTTPS connection for web browsers and never via the insecure HTTP protocol. To enhance connections to your Apache web server make sure that HSTS is also enabled to help protect against a man-in-the-middle attack....