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How to Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu and Other Linux

Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database management system drawn to manipulate large amounts of information across many servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. I am not going into the details of NoSQL database. I am going to so you how you can install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu based Linux distributions. Please note that it is more for practicing Installing Apache Cassandra on Linux There are multiple ways you can install Cassandra on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions: Install it using the official deb repositories from Apache: suitable and recommended for Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions. Gets automatic update if a newer version is available. […]
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  • Feb 16, 2022
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LibreOffice Wants Apache to Drop the Ailing OpenOffice and Support LibreOffice Instead

It is a no-brainer that Apache OpenOffice is still a relevant recommendation when we think about open source alternatives to Microsoft Office for Linux users. However, for the past several years, the development of OpenOffice is pretty much stale. Of course, it is not a shocker, considering Abhishek wrote about the possibility of Apache OpenOffice shutting down back in 2016. Now, in an open letter from The Document Foundation, they appeal Apache OpenOffice to recommend users to start using better alternatives like LibreOffice. In this article, I shall mention some highlights from the blog post by The Document Foundation and what it means to Apache OpenOffice. Apache OpenOffice is History, […]
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  • Nov 01, 2020
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How to Install Odoo 11 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache as a reverse proxy

    How to install Odoo 11 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS and how to configure Apache as a reverse proxy for your Odoo 11 so you can access your Odoo application via a domain without typing Odoo’s port in the URL. Odoo is one of the most popular and most powerful Open Source ERP business software based on the Python programming language. For this version, much of the focus is given on the intuitiveness, usefulness and better accessibility to the end-users & development team. With Version 11, we can see new website dashboard incorporated with various keyboard shortcuts which makes navigating through Odoo quicker and easier than ever. In […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Install Magento 2 with Varnish, Apache and Pound as SSL Termination

    In this article, we will show you how to install Magento 2 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with MariaDB, Varnish as a full page cache, Apache and Pound as SSL termination. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Before we begin, you may want a different setup for your Magento. You can follow this tutorial to install Magento 2 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM 7.0, Varnish as a full page cache, Nginx as SSL termination and Redis for session storage and page caching. Or you can check out this tutorial to […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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Let’s Encrypt: Secure Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 16.04

  Starting with Chrome 56, the browser developed by Google marks non-secure pages containing password and credit card input fields as Not Secure in the URL bar. It was almost one year ago, when the Mountain View giant announced this choice. Of course, everybody knows that secure is better then insecure; but in this case, the big problem with HTTP is that it lacks a system for protecting communications between clients and servers. This exposes data to different kinds of attacks, for instance, the “Man in the middle” (MIM), in which the attacker intercepts your data. If you are using some transaction system with your bank, using credit card infos, […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Install Apache Cassandra NoSQL database on a Single Node Ubuntu 16.04

  The Apache Cassandra is a distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data. It's free and open source, and provides High-Availability with no single point of failure. The DBMS was originally developed by Facebook for its Facebook inbox search feature, and was released in 2008. However now, it's developed/maintained by the Apache Software Foundation Developers. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basic Apache Cassandra installation process with single node. It's worth mentioning that we will install the Apache Cassandra using only one server, and all commands and instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04. What we will do: Install Java on Ubuntu 16.04 Install […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on CentOS 7

How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on CentOS 7 Apache ActiveMQ is a free and open source message broker and integration pattern server. It supports many cross language clients and protocols from JAVA, C++, C, Python, Perl, PHP etc. It provides many features such as Message Groups, Virtual Destinations, Wildcards and Composite Destinations etc. It can be easily integrated to spring applications. In this tutorial, we will install Apache ActiveMQ on CentOS 7 server. Prerequisite Minimal CentOS 7 server Root privileges. This guide is written as the root user, if you are logged in as sudo user, run sudo -i. Update Base System Before installing any package it is recommended that […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 16.04

  Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL database management system which is free and open-source. It allows managing large amounts of data with high availability without compromising the performance. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to install Apache Cassandra on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system. Apache Cassandra Prerequisites Before installing Apache Cassandra on your server make sure that the following prerequisites are met: – The latest version of Java 8, either the Oracle Java Standard Edition 8 or OpenJDK 8 is installed. If not, you can follow the instructions in this tutorial and we will show you how to install Java 8 […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to install Odoo 10 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache as a reverse proxy

  Odoo is a web-based open source business software including a number of business applications for Sales, Project and Warehouse Management, CRM, Accounting, Website/eCommerce, Billing, Inventory and thousands of more additional modules developed by the community. In this guide, we will walk you through a complete Odoo 10 installation on your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS and show you how to configure Apache as a reverse proxy for your Odoo 10. If you follow these instructions properly it should take no longer than 20 minutes to set up an Odoo on your VPS. Odoo Installation Before you begin, you need to connect to your server via SSH. Also, if this is your […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Setup Magento 2 With Varnish and Apache on Ubuntu 16.04

  Magento is a free and open source Content Management System built in PHP, Zend framework and MySQL database. It is very popular eCommerce web application that runs on top of many open source applications such as Apache, MySQL and many more. Magento comes with lots of built-in modules that is used to add more functionality. Varnish Cache is a powerful open source web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It is used to speed up your website by caching a copy of a webpage the first time a user visits. Magento and Varnish is a known combination to increase site performance significantly. Varnish is integrated […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Install Apache Cassandra on CentOS 7

How to Install Apache Cassandra on CentOS 7 It's teamwork, but simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Apache Cassandra is a free and open source distributed NoSQL database management system. It is used to store large data in decentralized highly available clusters. Data is distributed across many servers providing high availability and no single point of failure. NoSQL database servers stores data in other methods than the traditional tabular methods used by RDBMS softwares such as MySQL, PostgreSQL. In this tutorial, we will be installing Apache Cassandra on CentOS 7 server. Step 1 - Install JAVA Before installing any package it is recommended that you update the packages and repository […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020
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How to Install Joomla with Apache on Debian 9 (Stretch)

  Joomla is one of the most popular and widely supported open source content management system (CMS) platform in the world that can be used to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets and mobile applications. It is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming techniques and stores data in a MySQL or PostgreSQL. Joomla comes with more than 10,000 add-ons to customize its functionality. Joomla is open source means anyone can install Joomla and customize it as per their needs. More than 3 percent of the website running on Joomla around the world. Here, we will learn how to install and configure Joomla on Debian 9. Requirements […]
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  • Aug 05, 2020