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

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, Servers, Support, 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 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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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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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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[emerg]: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)

James Ensor cpanel, Tutorial 4 January 2017
nginxCP can fail to start because another service is using Port 80, thus preventing nginxCP from starting. Often an error similar to the below will be thrown out – [emerg]: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address…
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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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cPanel Web Hosting from just £1 per month!

James Ensor Blog, cpanel 4 August 2014
cPanel is the number one choice for Web Hosting control panels. Combined with a great user interface, and an easy to use interface, cPanel has become the natural choice for most personal and business customers!…
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How to Install NginxCP on cPanel/WHM Server

James Ensor Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 11 July 2014
Nginx is a fantastic, free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy. It is one of the most popular tools used to power many websites, and can be implemented quite easily on a new server…
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