How to install Drupal 7 on Ubuntu 14.04

drupal vpsDrupal is very popular and easy to use open-source CMS (content management system ) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
To install Drupal 7 on an Ubuntu VPS follow the very easy steps described below.

This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Ubuntu based virtual server.
At the time of writing this tutorial, Drupal 7.28 is the latest stable version available and it requires:

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Install your own Photo Gallery using Piwigo and Ubuntu 14.04

install-your-own-photo-gallery-using-piwigo-and-ubuntu-14-04-lts-vpsIn this article we are going through the steps of installing and setting up a private/public Photo Gallery using Piwigo on one of our Ubuntu based virtual servers.

What exactly is Piwigo?

It is open-source photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. Piwigo extensions make it easily customizable and highly flexible. Piwigo is free and open source software.

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How to install Gallery3 on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VPS

how-to-install-gallery3-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts-vpsThe following article will guide you through the steps on how to install Gallery3 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VPS.

What is Gallery3?

It is an open source photo sharing web application, based on PHP and MySQL.

Gallery3 has intuitive photo management administration and you can use it into your own website no matter whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community portal.

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How to Install LCMP (Cherokee, MySQL and PHP) on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 / Scientific Linux 6

cherokee vpsCherokee is a lightweight, flexible and completely customizable  Web server. Its speed and ease of use makes Cherokee one of the top running alternatives to Apache. Cherokee can be easily be installed using RPM packages or it can be compiled from source. If there is another Web server already installed on your virtual server, it needs to be stopped first.  

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How to Secure Joomla Websites

How to Secure Joomla Websites

We’ll show you, How to secure Joomla websites. Joomla is a very popular content management system used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and this is one of the main reasons why many hackers often try to find a way to hack Joomla based websites. Listed below are simple, yet powerful methods and practices to secure and protect a Joomla based website running on a Linux VPS from being compromised:

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