Well I have found a great application for tutorials that work natively on Linux. It is Viewlet Builder from Quarbon.com. I have uploaded a sample for your viewing on my server. The only problem is that until I purchase the application ($299 US) there is a watermark on the saved tutorial. But by purchasing this application, not only will I be able to do tutorials natively on Linux, but I will also support one of the few developers that target Linux for development.

As I found out recently, migrating a Xoops website from one server to another can be a daunting task to a new user.

But after doing it once, I now feel that if I need to make the move again, I can do it faster, easier and more efficiently than before. I would like to thank all the Xoops users that posted their tips on this subject in the faq. It help immensely. Out of this article I will be pulling parts to add to the faq some points that I felt was not enough information on.

So read on

As it is good practice to protect sensitive data, and encryption is a good way of securing that data, there are steps that should be taken to safeguard the loss of data through the security that protects them.

Whether it is business or personal data, some are too sensitive to allow others to view. It might be the next big trade secret or your monthly bank statement.

The most important item to backup with any CMS with dynamic content is the database. Almost all data for these sites are stored in the tables within the database. Because of this it is good practice to backup the database reliably and often.

I have recently chosen to do a complete database backup everyday. Depending on the activities of your web site this may be too often or not enough. Some very heavily used sites, with lots of purchasing activities may do a full backup once a day, and incremental

In the previous segment of this series of articles we discussed the backing up of the MySQL database with mysqldump and cron. I have since (through testing the restore process) revised the script slightly in that article. Please re read the article and add the change to your script.

Now we will discuss the restoring of our database backup. The good thing about using mysqldump to backup a database is that it uses native SQL language, and as such makes it easy to import via the MySQL CLI. With the pr