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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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 Add Swap on CentOS 7

James Ensor CentOS, PHP, Tutorial 18 January 2017
Enable SWAP on your CentOS 7 Server One of the best ways to make your server more responsive and guard against out-of-memory errors or applications crashing is to add SWAP space. SWAP is an area…
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How to install and configure PHP Zend Opcache

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, PHP, Tutorial 18 January 2017
What is Opcache you ask? Opcache is a PHP extensions that will help to improve server & applications performance. There are many popular opcode caches like eaccelerator, xcache, apc, etc.  Opcache is recommended in almost all…
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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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Fully Redundant, Hot Migration Cloud Servers in Central London

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 24 November 2015
[h1]Central London Cloud Servers deployed instantly![/h1] 5wire Networks are delighted to now be able to provide Cloud Services from our racks located in secure Tier 1 Data Centre facilities in Central London. Our location provides…
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