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Today I had an hard time helping a friend installing a Laravel PHP application on a WHM-powered OVH Server: since he needed PHP7, the first thing I did was upgrading EasyApache …
How to execute PHP7 CLI commands with cPanel and EasyApache 4 - PHP7 CLI path Read More
WordPress is an incredibly prevalent CMS Platform and has emerged as the most accessible and manageable CMS arrangements attributable to its ease of use, reliability, and security. It is a …
11 Design Best Practices Every WordPress developer should use Read More
In this post I will share a series of personal thoughts concerning a tendency that can be easily observed when reading most programming books review sites such as Amazon, Kobo, …
The Broken Code Myth: How to deal with Programming Books Read More
To put it briefly, a Single-Page Application (also called SPA) is a web-based application that struggles to provide the same user experience as a desktop application. If we consider the …
Key features of a competitive Single-Page Application (SPA) If you never worked on building SPAs, it's time for you to know what are them and their compelling feature set Read More
In the past 24 hours, two critical flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs were publicly released to the public. Both of them were originally discovered last year by Google’s Project …
Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities: what you need to know Read More
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 …
How to set Time, Timezone and System Clock in Linux CentOS, Fedora & RHEL using timedatectl Read More
In this article we'll show you how to create a self-signed TLS/SSL certificate and configure it in Apache or Nginx web server to allow secure, encrypted connections. This tutorial will …
How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 A handy guide explaining how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for your NGINX or Apache web site with Linux CentOS 7.x to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 Read More
We already talked a number of times of Nginx, allegedly one of the best web server, load balancers and HTTP accelerators out there these days. Among its most useful, but …
NGINX Rate Limiting: how to protect your web site from HTTP request flood, DoS and brute-force attacks Read More
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 …
How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script Read More
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 …
How to secure VSFTPD FTP Server using a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate in CentOS 7 - FTPS Read More