Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Apache Modules

Apache modules are software components that enhance the functionality and capabilities of the Apache HTTP Server. These modules are designed to extend and customize the server’s core features, allowing administrators and developers to add additional functionalities as per their requirements.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Friday, July 10, 2015

Setup Virtual Host

Today we will be creating virtual host on Apache2 web server. As one Apache2 web server can serve multiple websites we can later add more configs and tell Apache2 web server to serve all the websites from single unix instance.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Friday, July 3, 2015

Edit crontab with NANO

I often need to add some scheduled job on server. I mean something that runs periodically, like every day or every hour. You simply add a command that will run as scheduled and when I say command it can be anything that your system is capable of running. Therefore, it can be shell command or script or even a java application. But let’s look closer how could we set up our own cron task on linux.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Saturday, June 27, 2015

Installing Composer.phar

Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. That means that chunks of php code, which are tested and each package solves one some problem are packed into a packages and added to packagist repository. Using composer we can get those packages and add them into our codebase, and so reuse the stable code.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, June 25, 2015

LAMP stack

LAMP stands for Linux - Apache - MySql - PHP. This is basically everything you need to have a fully working testing server on your machine.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, June 25, 2015