PHP mail() Function in Ubuntu Linux

August 25th, 2008 Posted in Ubuntu, Web 2.0

It is very easy to send mail from PHP scripts. But for sending mails  from php we need the right configurations in php.ini and also need to configure the linux server for emails.
For sending emails from a PHP script we need to configure a SMTP server on ubuntu which will enable you to send mail [...]

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India the most linux popular country in the world

August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Open Source

Unix has been popular in India since its early days of computerization.Linux is a natural progression. Most of them find Linux a better version of Unix. This also brings in a pool of talent that is already familiar with Unix that can pick up Linux very quickly.
But what is the  position of Linux popularity in [...]

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Configuring Apache Virtualhost for Virtualbox

August 20th, 2008 Posted in Open Source

Using NameVirtualHost we can create multiple local sites with  URLs like feelitfrsh.local or myadmin.local etc… My httpd.conf was looking like  the following It will create a basic virtualhost server
NameVirtualHost 127.0.1.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.1.1>
DocumentRoot “/home/mshameer/www/feeling/public_html”
ServerName feelitfresh.local
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.1.1>
DocumentRoot “/home/mshameer/www/myadmin”
ServerName myadmin.local
</VirtualHost>
I have then installed SUN xVM VirtualBox and used this mainly for testing my websites in other operating systems. But [...]

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Software Wars MAP

August 17th, 2008 Posted in Open Source

It is a map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft.
The original Software Wars Map began in 1998 when Netscape first announced it was going to open source the browser code. Andy Tai was the creator. He updated it a couple times a year after that [...]

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