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Some weeks ago we published a tutorial instructing how to use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy with buffering & cache functions using the standard edge-origin pattern. The configuration settings shown within …
Nginx Reverse Proxy Cache for WordPress How to fine-tune Nginx used as a Reverse Proxy Cache server for a typical WordPress web site Read More
Right after you install CentOS, you'll be able to access your system with the standard Linux login screen on a command-line prompt. If you want to access to a GUI, …
CentOS - How to Boot into a Graphical Environment: Auto-Start to GUI - StartX How to configure your CentOS machine to auto-start to the installed GUI (GNOME, KDE or others) right after the boot-up sequence 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
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 Among the many good reasons leading more and more Linux System Administrators to migrate from Apache Web Server to Nginx, performance plays a decisive role: not only Nginx is arguably …
How to cache your website using NGINX and FastCGI in CentOS 7 with PHP FastCGI Process Manager PHP-FPM Read More
Expanding disk partitions to use all the available (unallocated) disk space is a common issue among Linux Administrators, expecially when working in a VMware-based Cloud environment: deploying a Linux VM …
Resize-Extend a disk partition with unallocated disk space in Linux - CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian & more Read More SSH is most likely the most secure way to remotely connect to a LINUX-based server machine. However, the fact that the SSH daemon service needs to be reached from the …
Protect CentOS from unwanted SSH failed login attempts with Fail2Ban Read More
For those who need them, here are the official URLs to download the ISO images for all the most recent Ubuntu releases (desktop & server, i386 or AMD64). Please take …
Ubuntu ISO Download - Zesty Zapsus (17.04), Xenial Xerus (16.04.3), Trusty Tahr (14.04.5), Precise Pangolin (12.04.5) Read More