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A few months ago I wrote an article explaining how to convert all MySQL tables belonging to one or more Database(s) from MyISAM to InnoDB and vice-versa with a simple, yet …
MySQL - How to convert all Database Tables and Columns to a specific Collation Read More
HTTP Strict Transport Security aka HSTS - is a web security policy mechanism (specified in RFC 6797) which helps to protect websites against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking; in a …
How to clear HTTP / HTTPS Redirect Cache by deleting the cached HSTS Settings in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Read More
Today I had an hard time helping a friend installing a Laravel PHP application on a WHM-powered OVH Server: since he needed PHP7, the first thing I did was upgrading EasyApache …
How to execute PHP7 CLI commands with cPanel and EasyApache 4 - PHP7 CLI path Read More
If you need to replace the default timezone of your Linux installation with your own timezone you can do that using the timedatectl command, a new utility for the distributions …
How to set Time, Timezone and System Clock in Linux CentOS, Fedora & RHEL using timedatectl 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
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