How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction TLS, or transport layer security, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for secure sockets layer, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic…
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How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction TLS, or “transport layer security”, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for “secure sockets layer”, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic…
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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction The Apache web server is the most popular way of serving web content on the Internet. It serves more than half of all of the Internet’s active websites, and is extremely powerful and flexible.…
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How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on CentOS 7

James Ensor CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Installing Topcat 8 web server on CentOS 7 Apache Tomcat is a web server and servletcontainer that is used to serve Java applications. Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer…
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How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction A “LAMP” stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents…
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What is yum and how do you use it?

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
What is yum? YUM Repositories are warehouses of Linux software (RPM package files). RPM package file is a Red Hat Package Manager file and enables quick and easy software installation on Red Hat/CentOS Linux. YUM…
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How to set up your new CentOS 7 server

James Ensor CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
So you have a fresh new server, now what? There are a few configuration steps you’ll need to go through before you can start playing around with your new kit. This is for security and…
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Editing the Sudoers file on Ubuntu and CentOS

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction Privilege separation is one of the fundamental security paradigms implemented in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Regular users operate with limited privileges in order to reduce the scope of their influence to their own…
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How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a Linux Server

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Linux server, chances are, you will spend most of your time in a terminal session…
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How to reset your MySQL or MariaDB root password

James Ensor CentOS, Tutorial 3 August 2017
Forgotten your MySQL or MariaDB root password? Don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world. You can reset your MySQL or MariaDB root passwords, provided you have access to the server and a sudo-enabled…
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