How To Reset A MySQL Root Password
MySQL contains it own ‘root’ password independent of the system root password, this is a guide on how to reset the MySQL root password. To reset it you will need root access on the server that has the MySQL instance. The same process applies to percona and mariadb servers as well, the only differences will […]
How To Install And Configure mod_auth_mysql On Apache
What Is Mod_Auth_Mysql? mod_auth_mysql is an Apache module used for authenticating users against a MySQL database. It is commonly used to protect items on a website via a user login prompt. The module is able to authenticate against a MySQL database to check for a valid username and password, it supports various encryption methods. You can view […]
How To Use Percona Xtrabackup To Create A MySQL Slave
Percona Xtrabackup can be used to create “hot backups” of MySQL servers fairly quickly and can avoid some of the pitfalls of mysqldump. Xtrabackup can be setup to use backup locks instead of read locks which is much less invasive, this is available on innodb tables. MyISAM and other tables will still need to be […]
How To Install And Test Go On CentOS
Go also known as golang, is a compiled computer programming language developed by google. It is loosely based on the C language but designed to overcome some of its short comings. It is a general purpose language and can be used from server-side development to games and streaming media. It can easily be installed on […]
How to Save PHP Sessions in Memcached
Memcached is a high performance storage engine designed for storing chunks for data, so it is great for storing sessions in it. The upside of doing this you notice a performance benefit from not writing these disk or a database is that you gain a performance increase. The downside is that memcached isn’t saving anything, […]
How To Install NTPD On CentOS 7
NTP (Network Time Protocol) is a protocol which allows computers to synchronize time. NTPd is a daemon that maintains the system time in synchronization with other NTP servers. This prevents drift which is the slow inconsistency of time on computers internal clocks. Keeping system time accurate is particularly important for system logs, replication, and applications. […]
How To Install Memcached on CentOS
Memcached is a high-performance caching system that is primarily used to speed up sites that rely on databases. It is an in-memory system for storing any data that could be from database calls or page requests. To read more about Memcached you can view the project wiki on github Clean out the repository: yum clean […]
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