The term "GMod" is short for Garry's Mod, which is a game that enables users to create scenarios with the use of a toolbox. By modifying the GMod server configuration file, users can implement any ...

A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...

Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

Rocky Linux has become one of the de facto standard replacements for CentOS. Not only is it a drop-in replacement for RHEL, but the maintainer Gregory Kurtzer has made it clear Rocky Linux will always ...

With multiple ways to accomplish the task, here's how to know the right route to take based on the situation. Central to the idea of DevOps is configuration as code, and PowerShell supports it with ...

How to Use the Apache Web Server to Install and Configure a Website Your email has been sent If you've never deployed a website with the Apache web server, you're about to learn how. Every so often, ...

In my previous two columns, I began a series on building Linux-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions using OpenVPN. When I left off last time, I had gotten as far through the OpenVPN server ...