Home server guides, tutorials, tips and tricks. Topics covered include file servers, web servers, network storage, and download servers on Linux or Ubuntu systems.
This post explains how to install Qouch app on iOS devices, including iPhone and iPad, to remotely manage your SABnzbd downloads, Sick Beard TV shows, and CouchPotato movies. In my posts on how to configure Sick Beard and CouchPotato, I mentioned using Qouch as a way of remotely managing SABnzbd, … read more
Having covered the step-by-step installation of Sick Beard on Ubuntu, in this post I present an automatic 1-step Sick Beard Installer script for Ubuntu. For simplicity, I am going to call this script AtoMiC Sick Beard Installer (Automated Media Center). Update (April 2015): AtoMiC Script has evolved into AtoMiC ToolKit … read more
Webmin modules extend the features of Webmin. In this post, I will explain how to install Webmin modules and manage them. Webmin simplifies some of the most common system administration tasks by providing a GUI. If you have not yet installed Webmin, please check this post. It comes in handy … read more
We recently presented Tiny Tiny RSS to you as a great alternative to Google reader, which is one more way you can extend the functionality of your home server or your hosting space. Hopefully, you already exported your data from Google Reader. In this post, we will show you how … read more
We recently presented Tiny Tiny RSS to you as a great alternative to Google reader. It is one more way you can extend the functionality of your home server or your hosting space. In this post, we will show you how to transfer Google Reader subscriptions to TT-RSS. Tiny Tiny … read more
As you may know htpcbeginner.com is committed to expand the applications of your home sever. In this post, we are going to show you how to install Tiny Tiny RSS on Ubuntu. This is right on time to prepare you for the imminent shutdown of Google Reader service. Tiny Tiny … read more
In this post, I will explain how to easily create cron job on Ubuntu and other Linux system with Webmin. Cron allows you to setup time-based job schedule in Unix-like operating systems. Typically they are used to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, … read more
The word “compiling” intimidates a lot of novice or even intermediate users of Linux. In reality, compiling software packages on Ubuntu is not that difficult. In this post, we will explain what you need to know about compiling packages from source on Ubuntu. Some of the guides on htpcBeginner (installing … read more
Glype is a web-based proxy script written in PHP with focus on features, functionality, and ease of use. In this post, I will explain how to install Glype on Ubuntu Server. A web-based proxy script can be hosted on a website and it provides proxy service to users via the … read more
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