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Linux tutorials for systems administrators and users wanting to manage linux systems, covering various topics such as administration, security, performance tuning, upgrades, and maintenance.
Nginx Compile From Source On CentOS
Nginx (pronounced (“Engine X”) is a high performance web server. It can be used as a web server, proxy server, load balancer, media streaming and more. It can serve static content and supports SSL. Compiling from source does not take long at all and compiling from source allows you to be in control the configuration […]
Creating A New Virtual Machine with KVM
This article covers creating a new virtual machine with KVM. It is based on CentOS however the majority applies to any OS using KVM. We are going to build a CentOS 7 virtual machine. Virtual Machine CLI Installation: Install wget if you don’t already have it: Part of this requires desktop First grab a CentOS […]
Bridged Networking Setup For KVM Virtualization
A bridged networking setup is typically used in KVM(Kernel-based virtual machine) to allow the virtual machines to access the LAN/WAN over the IP address on the physical host. This guide is focused on a CentOS or similar derivative configuration setup. This is the second part of a multi-part series in setting up KVM services on […]
KVM installation on CentOS
KVM(Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization software for linux. You can run multiple virtual server instances under one physical host. This allows you to seperate services and run them on different virtual machines. The link to the project can be found here. Running virtual servers is often used to condense many physical machines into […]
Compiling PHP from source on CentOS
PHP is a open source scripting language, commonly used for web development. The code is executed on the server before being displayed to clients unlike other languages like JavaScript. PHP can also be used for command line actions as well and has a wide range of libraries and frameworks for it. This guide is how […]
Journalctl Introduction and Examples
journalctl was added into the systemd release of CentOS 7 and has been part of Fedora since 17. It is a logging system for querying and printing messages form the journal. It can be used in with or replacing older logging services like rsyslogd. Journalct also uses highlighting for high priority messages in red and […]
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