The Linux Juggernaut

This is bit important post on understanding the ports, their details and numbers.

Some FAQ related PORTS

Q. What is a port?

A port is software docking point in your machine where remote application uses for communication. This is analogy to the physical ports for entering in to the Countries.

Q. What is hardware port?

This is physical peripheral connection point to a machine from a physical device.

Q. What is a socket?

Socket is … Continue Reading

When you are configuring Apache-Aactive directory integration you may find this error. This is bit strange error, this type of errors will come when the LDAP URL is not mention properly. There may be a special character in the line which you coped from some file/doc/blog causing this issue.

If you see below lines both look same

AuthLDAPURL “ldap://server.example.com:3268/dc=example,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*)”
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://server.example.com:3268/dc=example,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*)"

But there is a hidden new line in first AuthLDAPURL line. so be careful … Continue Reading

Hi all,
From today on words we are planing to provide in depth knowledge base on many Howto’s related to Apache web server. Some of the howto’s which we are going to present are as follows.

1. About Apache web server
2. Apache installation[Redhat/Debian]
3. Apache installation through source
4. Apache ip based web access
5. Apache host based web access
6.Hosting multiple websites on single host