Adding and deleting users in CentOS 7
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…
How To Encrypt Tomcat 8 Connections with Apache or Nginx on CentOS 7
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…
How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx on CentOS 7
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…
How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7
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.…
How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on CentOS 7
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…
How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On CentOS 7
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…
What is yum and how do you use it?
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…
How to set up your new CentOS 7 server
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…
Editing the Sudoers file on Ubuntu and CentOS
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…
How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a Linux Server
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…
