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Deploying .NET Applications with GitHub Actions and GHCR: An End-to-End Guide A practical guide to publishing and deploying .NET, Node.js, or any containerized workload using GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry, Docker Compose, and a traditional Linux server

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Not every application needs Kubernetes, Helm, an ingress controller, a secret operator, and the operational overhead that comes with them. In many cases, especially for small teams, internal products, single-tenant …

Deploying .NET Applications with GitHub Actions and GHCR: An End-to-End Guide A practical guide to publishing and deploying .NET, Node.js, or any containerized workload using GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry, Docker Compose, and a traditional Linux server Read More
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How to boost your Azure web-server performance An open-source bootstrap script to configure Nginx, PHP, .NET, and WordPress caches on Azure’s local temp disk for faster, more efficient web apps

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If you’ve ever hosted web applications on Microsoft Azure, you probably know that every VM comes with a so-called ephemeral disk (usually mounted at /mnt). It’s fast, SSD/NVMe-backed storage with …

How to boost your Azure web-server performance An open-source bootstrap script to configure Nginx, PHP, .NET, and WordPress caches on Azure’s local temp disk for faster, more efficient web apps Read More
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WordPress Security: What to Do When You Find Suspicious Files From Detecting Suspicious Files to Advanced Protection: Practical Strategies to Secure WordPress. Log Analysis, Malware Removal, and Security Settings

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Finding unknown files (especially if they are executable scripts like PHP files and/or configuration files, such as php.ini) within WordPress directories can be a sign of malware infection, an anomalous …

WordPress Security: What to Do When You Find Suspicious Files From Detecting Suspicious Files to Advanced Protection: Practical Strategies to Secure WordPress. Log Analysis, Malware Removal, and Security Settings Read More
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The role of the Web Server General overview of the tool that handles the HTTP requests and provides responses: what it is, what it does, what it is for

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After the articles dedicated to the HTTP protocol and the HTTP request/response cycle, it's time to dedicate a post to the main protagonist of the interaction between client/browser and the …

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Web Administrator Training Course A learning path to acquire the necessary skills to configure, manage and administer a web server on Windows, Linux, and in the Cloud

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We are pleased to announce the start of our Web Administrator Training Course, a learning path dedicated to all web developers and system administrators wishing to deepen their knowledge in the …

Web Administrator Training Course A learning path to acquire the necessary skills to configure, manage and administer a web server on Windows, Linux, and in the Cloud Read More
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Configure HTTP Basic Authentication on NGINX How to implement HTTP Basic Authentication in a NGINX web server to restrict access for your website users with a simple username/password challenge

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In this guide we'll see how we can implement a password-based authentication mechanism on our NGINX web servers using HTTP Basic Authentication: a simple auth method that allows webmasters to …

Configure HTTP Basic Authentication on NGINX How to implement HTTP Basic Authentication in a NGINX web server to restrict access for your website users with a simple username/password challenge Read More
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How to create a secure virtualized Data Center on Aruba Cloud Pro A comprehensive journey through Aruba Cloud Pro, the IaaS Cloud Computing solution provided by Aruba that lets you create a virtual infrastructure with a pay-per-use pricing model

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This article is the first of a series of posts in which I will tell my experience with Aruba Cloud Pro, the IaaS solution made available by Aruba to create …

How to create a secure virtualized Data Center on Aruba Cloud Pro A comprehensive journey through Aruba Cloud Pro, the IaaS Cloud Computing solution provided by Aruba that lets you create a virtual infrastructure with a pay-per-use pricing model Read More
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NGINX - Access-Control-Allow-Origin - CORS policy settings How to properly set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to NGINX to allow Cross Request Resource Sharing for all (or specific) sites

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Those who often read this blog already know that we're deeply in love with NGINX, a lightweight, high-performance and open-source web server and reverse proxy used by more than 358 …

NGINX - Access-Control-Allow-Origin - CORS policy settings How to properly set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to NGINX to allow Cross Request Resource Sharing for all (or specific) sites Read More
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OpenProject - 502 Bad Gateway with default TCP port 6000 - FIX How to fix the 502 - Bad Gateway HTTP error reported by NGINX while trying to connect to a default OpenProject instance by changing the default proxy port (TCP 6000)

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If you're reading this it most likely means that you're desperately looking for a way to fix the 502 - Bad Gateway error (or other similar errors) you're receiving by …

OpenProject - 502 Bad Gateway with default TCP port 6000 - FIX How to fix the 502 - Bad Gateway HTTP error reported by NGINX while trying to connect to a default OpenProject instance by changing the default proxy port (TCP 6000) Read More
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Expect-CT - A new HTTP Security Header to be aware of A new HTTP header that allows web host operators to instruct user agents to expect valid Signed Certificate Timestamps (SCTs) to be served on connections to these hosts.

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I'm writing this post as a follow-up of this article about HTTP Security Headers that I wrote a year ago to introduce a new kid on the block: its name …

Expect-CT - A new HTTP Security Header to be aware of A new HTTP header that allows web host operators to instruct user agents to expect valid Signed Certificate Timestamps (SCTs) to be served on connections to these hosts. Read More