All Entries in the "Servers" Category
When Port 80 is Blocked by ISP
I have introduced how to set up remote desktop for Windows 7 and how to set up FTP servers previously, using a service called Dynamic IP; to be more precious, I used No-Ip’s free DNS host service. If you are careful enough, you should notice that I have to use alternate port for my FTP [...]
Go OpenVZ or Go Xen for VPS?
Paravirtualization-capable hypervisors include Xen, Virtuozzo, Vserver, and OpenVZ (which is the open source and development version of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers), but the most common types used are OpenVZ and Xen. If you are a first time VPS user, you might want to know which one to go for: OpenVZ or Xen? OpenVZ is an operating [...]
WordPress URL Rewrite for Nginx
Some people say WordPress works the best on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) but I chose LNMP as my server structure. If you have Nginx as your web server, you might be able to see tongs of “404 error” due to the incorrect URL rewrite rules. To fix this problem, it’s just two simple [...]
How to Fix WordPress Email Sending Problem
After the plug-in update/install problem was solved, seems like I have another problem of my WordPress. For my Contact Page , I am using a plug-in called “Fast and Secure Contact Form” to handle the message left on my blog; the plug-in will use PHP’s mail function and redirect the message to the email address [...]
How to: Fix WordPress FTP Info Required for Plugin Update/Installation
I wrote a post yesterday to explain the easiest way to set up a Linux server within 20 minutes. A reader contacted me regarding a problem he has with the server. Basically he did pretty much the same thing as I wrote, and he imported the MySQL database to VPS server with phpmyadmin and use [...]
How to Set Up LNMP on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS
As I announced that Rockia.com has been moved to Linode VPS, I received numerous emails asking how they can do that. My answer is that if you are professional in Linux, you can just follow the tutorials in Linode Library; I strongly believe that there are more tutorials than you actually need to set up [...]
