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• How to setup Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Debian Etch 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Apache Tomcat is a web container, or application server developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, providing an environment for Java code to run in cooperation with a web server. It adds tools for configuration and management but can also be configured by editing configuration files that are normally XML-formatted. Tomcat includes its own internal HTTP server.
• Groovy Databasing With Apache Derby 5 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  TechBookReport presents a tutorial on using Groovy's database functionality to interact with the Apache Derby database. Learn how to use Groovy to query and update a database, and how this compares to raw Java.
• Introduction to Apache Maven 2 6 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Modern software projects are no longer solely monolithic creations of single local project teams Now in its second generation, the Apache Maven build tool -- unlike legacy build tools created before the Internet-enabled era of global software development -- was designed from the ground up to take on these modern challenges. This tutorial gets you started with Maven 2.
• Apache virtual hosts quick and easy 7 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Virtual hosts are used to run more than one web site on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be "IP-based", meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or "name-based", meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address. You can also run your web pages on different ports like 8080 or 8090. The fact that they are running on the same physical server is not apparent to the end user. This workshop describes the different setups based on an OpenSuse 10.2 server.
• TechBookReport Apache Derby Tutorial 8 months ago
  
  TechBookReport presents a quick introductory tutorial on the Apache Derby Java database. In addition to showing how to access Derby using JDBC from Java code, it also shows the command-line usage of the ij tool.
• Central Log Management System 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  "Central Log Management System is a simple web based logging system which allows logging all syslog messages from various Network Devices, Unix, Linux, Solaris and Windows Servers. This allows the visibility of logs from all these devices in one single interface ...."
• How to set up Apache high availability cluster 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  This is how to setup the Apache high availability cluster in Debian with NFS data storage. With this setup you can add many servers to one cluster.
• Speed up your AJAX applications while dodging Web services vulnerabilities 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "To eliminate redundancy and memory leaks and reduce the amount of bandwidth and the number of small HTTP requests, you must plan ahead on creating, testing, and deploying Ajax performance improvement projects. This article will help you resolve these issues and make your job of speeding up Ajax applications easier .... "
• Secure Name-based Virtual Hosts with mod_gnutls 9 months, 1 week ago
  
  George Notaras writes "A step-by-step guide on how to implement SSL-enabled name-based vhosts - that is secure virtual hosts which share the same IP address and port - with the SNI-capable mod_gnutls module for Apache's httpd web server."
• The Power of Google Gears (Part 1) 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Web application development is the perfect 95 percent solution. It's very easy to develop a simple HTML frontend to something like PHP or Rails, to deliver data to and from a MySQL database. You can even give it a more desktop feel by using Ajax tools. But that last five percent, the ability for desktop applications to work offline, was missing from the web world until the release of Google Gears.
• How To Run PHP 4 and 5 in Ubuntu Without CGI 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "When we chose Symfony to implement ThemBid.com, PHP 5 was needed but we only had PHP 4 installed in our Ubuntu hosting servers..."
• Linux-based websites 'perform better' 11 months ago
  
  WatchMouse, a Dutch firm that monitors server performance, based its research on a survey of over 1,500 European websites. The company says that, although the websites it surveyed were more frequently based on Microsoft's IIS web server platform running Windows than on Apache running Linux, the latter option performed better in terms of both uptime and load time.