Sumit Gupta

Category: Server Configuration

  • Internet Auto Dialer: PPPoE Dialer

    I need to configure a autodialer for windows 2008 server. Although the PPPoE dialer within windows have “dial on line drop” but for some unknown reason that function wasn’t working for my cause. Also, if a User through which I start/dial connect gets logout the connection gets disconnect. Someone suggest to use 3rd party dialer, […]

  • ImageMagic on Rackspace Cloud server (linux)

    Just a reminder for myself ,Imagemagic is available on Rackspace cloud at following name/location /usr/bin/mogrify I have use it in one of my poject, and works great for image resizing better than GD in PHP.

  • Finally wordpress permalinks works

    After a long time, finally Microsoft add the ability to work with URL Rewriting in IIS, finally Godaddy start supporting it with their hosting, and finally I try the service to found it working first shot. You will find detail guides at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/   (IIS official article) http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks (WordPress official Article) My unofficial web.config content […]

  • MySQL “Server has gone away” error

    A useful like to know the reason of “Server has gone away” error of MySQL. http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysql-tip-mysql-server-has-gone-away-or-lost-connection-to-server-during-query-fix/ It has very good information on why it happens, so you can check and correct the error.

  • Subnet Mask Calculator

    Every need to calculate subnet mask, you will need this site if you are system administrator: http://www.subnet-calculator.com Calculate the subnet mask with ease.

  • Good Password

    Ever since I got company server to manage and create user account, email account. I found it very hard to do so as thinking a new password is not that easy. But my quest end when I landed on http://www.goodpassword.com, where they generate password for us and that too for free. Give it a try […]

  • IMAP from Command line

    Often I need to query IMAP server to test the mail server. For this I usually Telnet the IMAP serivce on server, and pass commands to check if it works fine or not. Following are few commands that I need to test such servers. To quickly test an imap server using telnet use: telnet server […]