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Install Wordpress on CentOS/RHEL

Download the latest version of Wordpress extract the zipped filw. 1. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 2. tar xzf latest.tar.gz Now assigning to group and setting folder permission. 1. chown -R apache.apache wordpress 2. chmod -R 755 wordpress Configuring Apache 1. cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/ 2. Create a file wordpress.conf 3. wordpress.conf Alias /wordpress /home/wordpress < Directory /home/wordpress> Order allow,deny Allow from all < /Directory> 4. service httpd restart Browse at localhost/wordpress it should show you wordpress site. That's it. You can use the existing mysql connection and connect to wordpress site.

Druknet PPoE VPI/VCI

If you are using Druknet broadband, following are the VPI and VCI value you need to know when you configure in your Wireless Access Point. VPI ( Virtual Path Identifier)  = 0 VCI ( Virtual Channel Identifier)  = 35

Update Kali Linux from ISO image with no network

Mount the ISO to /mnt directory sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/iso /mnt/ Modify the /etc/apt/sources.list Add: deb file:///mnt kali main contrib non-free Comment: Comment out all other repository locations from the file except the about one. Update the system sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Un-comment We have now updated the system from the ISO, now we need to un-comment back the official repository locations and comment our newly added ISO repository. Un-mount the ISO sudo umount /mnt

How to connect to remote desktop using linux

Remmina has now been moved to FreeRDP. To connect to remote desktop using freerdp command sudo  xfreerdp /size:800x600 /u:administrator /v:192.168.1.1:3389 with the above command I am connecting to 192.168.1.1 windows server where remote desktop is enabled with the screen resolution 800x600. By default remote desktop works on tcp port 3389.

Clear Zimbra Mail Queue

If you want to clear mail queue from specific email address run the following command in your terminal. Below will remove mail queues, by checking FROM sender. eg. remove all mail queues sent by info@example.com /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/mailq | tail -n +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } { if ($7 == "info@example.comt") print $1 } ' | tr -d '*!' | xargs -rn1 /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postsuper -d Below will remove mail queues, by checking TO sender. eg. remove all mail queues sent to info@example.com /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/mailq | tail -n +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } { if ($8 == "info@example.comt") print $1 } ' | tr -d '*!' | xargs -rn1 /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postsuper -d

Things to do after install Kali Linux

Kali Linux basically come with pen testing packages, but you still need some day to day utilities packages. Here are the list of things that I do after installing Kali Linux. 1. Installing Archiving package sudo apt-get install unrar unace rar unrar p7zip zip unzip p7zip-full p7zip-rar file-roller 2. Installing Gimp sudo apt-get install gimp 3. Installing Virtual Box sudo apt-get install virtualbox 4. Installing Remote Desktop Client sudo apt-get install remmina 5. Installing FTP Client sudo apt-get install filezilla filezilla-common 6. Installing Adobe Flash Player sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree 7. Installing PlayonLinux sudo apt-get install playonlinux Finally adding deb-multimedia.org repository . So that you can install additional multimedia packages on you Debian box. 8. Installing video editing package sudo apt-get install avidemux

Disable Ubuntu Guest Session

Follow the following steps in the terminal sudo -i gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf If you don't find above line then: sudo gedit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf  Add the following line and save allow-guest=false Then reboot the machine