How To Redirect www to Non-www with Apache on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, cpanel, Tutorial 16 August 2017
Introduction When you have your web site or application up and running behind a domain, it is often desirable to also allow your users access to it via the plain domain name and the www subdomain. That is, they…
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How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Security, Servers, Support, Tutorial, VPS 16 August 2017
Introduction While connecting to your server through SSH can be very secure, the SSH daemon itself is a service that must be exposed to the Internet to function properly. This comes with some inherent risk…
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Set up basic HTTP Authentication with Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 16 August 2017
Introduction Nginx is one of the leading web servers in active use. It and its commercial edition, Nginx Plus, are developed by Nginx, Inc. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to restrict access to an…
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How To Install Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Support, Tutorial, VPS 16 August 2017
About Nginx Nginx is a high performance web server software package. It is a much more flexible and lightweight program than Apache HTTP Server. This tutorial will teach you how to install and start Nginx…
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Adding and deleting users in CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction When you first start using a fresh Linux server, adding and removing users is one of the most basic tasks that you should know how to do. When you create a new server, you…
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Automate tasks on your cloud server using Cron

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Servers, Support, VPS 15 August 2017
Introduction One of the most standard ways to run tasks in the background on Linux machines is with cron jobs. They’re useful for scheduling tasks on the VPS and automating different maintenance-related jobs. “Cron” itself…
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How To Encrypt Tomcat 8 Connections with Apache or Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
What is Apache Tomcat and why are we bothering to encrypt it? Apache Tomcat, or ‘Tomcat Server,’ is a web server and servlet container, usefully designed to serve Java applications. It is a very flexible…
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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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