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Here's a common issue that every Windows System Administrators will experience sooner or later when dealing with Windows Server (or Windows 10) and its odd way to handle the Administrators …
Windows Users in Administrators Group without Administrator rights - How to Fix Read More
In this article we'll show you how to create a self-signed TLS/SSL certificate and configure it in Apache or Nginx web server to allow secure, encrypted connections. This tutorial will …
How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 A handy guide explaining how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for your NGINX or Apache web site with Linux CentOS 7.x to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 Read More
We already talked a number of times of Nginx, allegedly one of the best web server, load balancers and HTTP accelerators out there these days. Among its most useful, but …
NGINX Rate Limiting: how to protect your web site from HTTP request flood, DoS and brute-force attacks Read More
Today I had to fix a nasty issue in one of my PHP-based websites: to put it into few words, I needed to find a way to trasform a number …
MySQL function (and query) to convert a string into a slug for readable URL permalinks Read More
Everyone who wants to make his WordPress web site more secure should definitely spend at least one hour of his life reading the Hardening WordPress chapter of the WP official …
How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script Read More
In this previous post we explained how to install and configure a FTP server in Linux CentOS 7 using the popular VSFTPD open-source package. As we have clarified there, the File …
How to secure VSFTPD FTP Server using a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate in CentOS 7 - FTPS Read More FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a traditional and widely used standard for transferring files over a network. The transfer happens via a standard client-server connection with or without …
How to install and configure a FTP Server in Linux CentOS 7.x with VSFTPD Read More Nginx is a high-performance, low-overhead optimized web server that can handle HTTP and HTTPS connections, which can also work as a reverse proxy and load balancer: it also has a lot of useful …
How to install NGINX in CentOS 7 or FreeBSD and configure it to act as a Reverse Caching Proxy for Apache Read More
In the latest days we've published a number of Nginx-related post that might be useful for those who want to implement a FastCGI-Cache or a Proxy-Cache solution to speed up their …
Web Site Caching without a Reverse Proxy: how to cache web pages using Apache, mod_cache and mod_cache_disk Read More A couple days ago I posted a tutorial about caching a web site using Nginx and FastCGI-Cache in CentOS 7, which is a great alternative to the Reverse-Proxy cache technique …
How to cache your website using NGINX Reverse Proxy and Proxy-Cache in CentOS 7 Read More