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CentOS - How to Boot into a Graphical Environment: Auto-Start to GUI - StartX How to configure your CentOS machine to auto-start to the installed GUI (GNOME, KDE or others) right after the boot-up sequence

January 31, 2018March 11, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Right after you install CentOS, you'll be able to access your system with the standard Linux login screen on a command-line prompt. If you want to access to a GUI, …

How to set Time, Timezone and System Clock in Linux CentOS, Fedora & RHEL using timedatectl

December 30, 2017December 30, 2017 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you need to replace the default timezone of your Linux installation with your own timezone you can do that using the timedatectl command, a new utility for the distributions …

Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script

December 17, 2017December 17, 2017 - by Ryan - 5 Comments.

Everyone who wants to make his WordPress web site more secure should definitely spend at least one hour of his life reading the Hardening WordPress chapter of the WP official …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

How to secure VSFTPD FTP Server using a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate in CentOS 7 - FTPS

December 16, 2017December 17, 2017 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

In this previous post we explained how to install and configure a FTP server in Linux CentOS 7 using the popular VSFTPD open-source package. As we have clarified there, the File …

Servers & Services / Web

How to install and configure a FTP Server in Linux CentOS 7.x with VSFTPD

December 16, 2017December 16, 2017 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a traditional and widely used standard for transferring files over a network. The transfer happens via a standard client-server connection with or without …

Servers & Services / Web

How to install NGINX in CentOS 7 or FreeBSD and configure it to act as a Reverse Caching Proxy for Apache

December 16, 2017November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

Nginx is a high-performance, low-overhead optimized web server that can handle HTTP and HTTPS connections, which can also work as a reverse proxy and load balancer: it also has a lot of useful …

Servers & Services / Web

Web Site Caching without a Reverse Proxy: how to cache web pages using Apache, mod_cache and mod_cache_disk

December 16, 2017December 16, 2017 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

In the latest days we've published a number of Nginx-related post that might be useful for those who want to implement a FastCGI-Cache or a Proxy-Cache solution to speed up their …

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

How to cache your website using NGINX Reverse Proxy and Proxy-Cache in CentOS 7

December 14, 2017November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

A couple days ago I posted a tutorial about caching a web site using Nginx and FastCGI-Cache in CentOS 7, which is a great alternative to the Reverse-Proxy cache technique …

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

How to cache your website using NGINX and FastCGI in CentOS 7 with PHP FastCGI Process Manager PHP-FPM

December 12, 2017November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

Among the many good reasons leading more and more Linux System Administrators to migrate from Apache Web Server to Nginx, performance plays a decisive role: not only Nginx is arguably …

Linux / Operating Systems

Resize-Extend a disk partition with unallocated disk space in Linux - CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian & more

December 10, 2017March 1, 2022 - by Ryan - 53 Comments.

Expanding disk partitions to use all the available (unallocated) disk space is a common issue among Linux Administrators, expecially when working in a VMware-based Cloud environment: deploying a Linux VM …