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Requirements Please refer to  Part 1  of the current series (“ Installing Network Services and Configuring Automatic Startup at Boot ”) for instructions on installing and starting Apache. By now, you should have the Apache web server installed and running. You can verify this with the following command. # ps -ef | grep -Ei '(apache|httpd)' | grep -v grep Note : That the above command checks for the presence of either  apache  or  httpd  (the most common names for the web daemon) among the list of running processes. If Apache is running, you will get output similar to the following. Check Apache Processes The ultimate method of testing the Apache installation and checking whether it’s running is launching a web browser and point to the IP of the server. We should be presented with the following screen or at least a message confirming that Apache is working. Check Apache Webpage Configuring Apache The main configuration file for Apache...

How to Install ‘IPFire’ Free Firewall Linux Distribution IPFire  is one of the high-level flexible firewall with great features such as other firewall’s. IPFire will work as a firewall, VPN gateway, Proxy server, DHCP server, Time server, Caching name server, Wake-On-LAN, DDNS, Open VPN, Monitoring etc.. IPFire Firewall Installation Guide IPFire is released under GPL license and totally designed to use free. The developers keep the key things as security while the IPFire was build. Since IPFire will connect directly to the internet, due to this, there will be chances for hackers and threats to attack it. To avoid those threats and attacks  Pakfire package manager  helps administrators to keep the the packages database up-to-date in IPFire. Basically IPfire was build using a super kernel with various threat, attacks, detect and compromise features and have a rich Graphical interface to use. IPfire have the feature to use samba and vsftpd file services. IPF...