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Setup Nginx Virtual Hosts On CentOS
Introduction Nginx is a high performance web server. ANginx virtual host can be setup to host as many domains as your server can handle. If you have not already please see our guides on Nginx Compile From Source as well as PHP-FPM With PHP7 From Source. These 2 guides will lay the foundation of core services for […]
How To Setup Nginx To Use SSL With LetsEncrypt
What is LetsEncrypt? Let’s Encrypt is a certificate Authority that launched in 2016 providing free TSL SSL certificates that renew every 90 days. There are several validation methods for LetsEncrypt to verify the domain you are generating the certificate for is one you actually control. In this guide we will be utilizing the webroot method. […]
MariaDB 10 Upgrade From MySQL 5.1 on CentOS 6
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL that was created from some of the original developers of mysql after MySQL was purchased by Oracle. Upgrading to MariaDB offers a range of benefits and is a relatively simple upgrade. It has more active development then MySQL currently and is just developed by Oracle support as MySQL is. […]
ModSecurity Installation With Apache On CentOS
ModSecurity is an open source monitoring system for web applications. It has powerful rule sets that allow you to protect applications from attacks. View the project for more details. It provides a ton of features such as: More than 16,000 specific rules, broken out into the following attack categories: * SQL injection * Cross-site Scripting (XSS) […]
mod_auth_token Installation In Apache
mod_auth_token is a apache module that can be used to sign URLs, using this it can create time based urls that expire after a certain amount of time. It will prevent hot linking as the URLs will expire. This is particularly useful with video and image sharing. To get started you will need to have […]
Compile Apache 2.4 From Source
Compiling Apache 2.4 from source is easy and allows for more customization later on. It also allows for control over where it is installed Install some required depedencies: yum install -y wget pcre-devel openssl openssl-devel expat-devel First get the latest version, at the time of writing this it is 2.4.25. The link to download the […]
PHP-FPM With PHP7 From Source
PHP 7 has great performance benefits and combining that with Nginx when using php-fpm you can get seriously impressive load times! Compiling from source offers more control over where packages are installed and what modules are enabled. If you would like to read more about php-fpm, you can visit the project page Download the dependencies […]
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