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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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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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 Install cPanel on your Virtual Server – CentOS 6, CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, Tutorial 14 January 2017
cPanel is a the most popular application that enables users to administer servers using a GUI interface instead of traditional command line. cPanel is straight forward to install, but sometimes can take a couple of…
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How to install or upgrade PHP from 5.4 to 5.5 on CentOS/RHEL 6/7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, PHP, Tutorial 17 November 2016
CentOS 7 by default installs PHP 5.4. At the end of September PHP 5.4 came to the end of it’s life, no longer receiving security updates. A number of systems still run PHP 5.4. This…
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