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Technical Analysis: Installing Apache on Windows

Abstract : By many estimates, Apache is the world's most popular web server software, hosting more than half of active domains according to Netcraft. Typically, Apache is run on Linux or UNIX, but it runs quite well on Windows. This paper provides an...more

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    Technical Analysis: Installing Apache on Windows

    Abstract : By many estimates, Apache is the world's most popular web server software, hosting more than half of active domains according to Netcraft. Typically, Apache is run on Linux or UNIX, but it runs quite well on Windows. This paper provides an...

    Technical Analysis: Apache with mod_auth_kerb and Windows Server

    The Apache authentication module mod_auth_kerb allows Apache to authenticate users against a Kerberos KDC including one from ActiveDirectory. Kerberos itself can be fairly complex to set up. This guide will attempt to show the specific steps required...

    Technical Analysis: Installing Apache with SSL on Windows

    Often SSL or TLS is required to secure data from web applications. Sometimes this is just prudent to prevent confidential or sensitive data from being confiscated. Sometimes this is required by regulations like HIPAA, or industry bodies, such as the Payment...

    Technical Analysis: Active Directory and Linux Identity Management

    This paper is written for a somewhat technical audience and covers how the identity management expectations differ between the Windows Server platform and Linux - and how Windows Server can be used to manage both. This paper assume that the reader is...

    Technical Analysis: Recovering Data from Windows systems by using Linux

    We have all run into cases where Windows fails to load for one reason or another. The problem may be hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux can be used to help recover data that otherwise might be...

    Technical Analysis: Recovering GRUB, Dual Boot Solutions

    Today's post returns Port 25 to our more regular technical analysis that examine common technical scenarios when running Windows and Linux together, or Windows and other popular open source projects. This week, the lab looks at at disk recovery options...

    Using Vista's Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support

    Today we are introducing Cyril Voisin, Security Advisor for Microsoft in France who shares his insights on booting Linux with Vista's boot manager and building a dual boot system with Windows Vista BitLocker protection with TPM Support......

    Windows Vista Beta/Linux IPsec Interop Testing

    This document provides an overview of LInux IPsec solutions as well as detailed discussions on configuring IPsec-Tools for interoperability scenarios between Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 and Windows Vista Ultimate Beta....

    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as...

    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS

    We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes...

    Data Recovery Using Linux

    It's happened to me and I'm sure it has happened to you: your software won't load and your data is now trapped inside your PC. The problem may be a hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux...

    PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer

    This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens...

    • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
    Connecting Office Applications to MySQL and PostgreSQL via ODBC
    by MichaelF on April 10, 2007

    In cases where business applications have been built on open source databases, it may be necessary to connect other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Access or Excel, to these databases for reporting or business intelligence purposes. One potential... more

    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install
    by jcannon on March 16, 2007

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as... more

    PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer
    by MichaelF on February 22, 2007

    This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens... more

    • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
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    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS
    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install
    by jcannon on March 16, 2007

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as... more

    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS
    by admin on June 14, 2006

    We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes... more

    PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer
    by MichaelF on February 22, 2007

    This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens... more

    • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
    Connecting Office Applications to MySQL and PostgreSQL via ODBC
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