by Richard W | Sep 22, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are three top content management systems that power most websites online today. These three depend on the LAMP stack which includes Linux, Apache2, MySQL or MariaDB and PHP. We’ve written about installing both WordPress and Drupal on...
by Richard W | Sep 19, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to install mCrypt PHP extension in CentOS 7. For some reasons this PHP extension isn’t available from CentOS 7 default repositories. You may be able to install other PHP extensions right out of the box after...
by Richard W | Sep 18, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Few weeks ago we showed you how to install ProFTPD in Ubuntu 14.04 and also said that by design, the FTP protocol is inherently insecure. If you have to implement FTP on your servers, you should opt for a secure FTP or SFTP. This brief tutorial is going to show you...
by Richard W | Sep 17, 2014 | How-To/Tips
Quick answer: Add Oracle’s VirtualBox repository using a signed keyring, install VirtualBox and the Extension Pack, create a dedicated user in the vboxusers group, set that user in /etc/default/virtualbox, start vboxweb-service, then serve phpVirtualBox from...
by Richard W | Sep 16, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s a tutorial that shows you how to install VirtualBox in CentOS 7 server and manage it via phpVirtualBox tool. With this setup you’ll be able to manage VirtualBox guest machines remotely via a web browser. This setup is also known as VirtualBox...
by Richard W | Sep 14, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux
When you are a webmaster managing online servers, there some things you usually do when setting up a new server. Things like setting the root password, configuring the hostname of the server and many others. One area that’s very important is configuring the...
by Richard W | Aug 26, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Security
When managing online servers that can be accessed from anywhere, you may want to add some level of security by disabling SSH logon for the root account. By default when you install CentOS 7 and SSH server, the root account automatically have remote access via SSH....
by Richard W | Aug 18, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
With Google’s announcement that sites that implement HTTPS or SSL will get a small ranking boost, most webmasters are jumping onto the news and switching their blogs and websites to serve https traffic. We ourselves have switched to HTTPS. If you look in the...
by Richard W | Aug 7, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web
We’ve written a lot about WordPress on this site. We’ve written about how to speed up WordPress, install and secure plugins, and many other valuable posts. One thing to remember is WordPress isn’t the only content management system (CMS) available....
by Richard W | Jul 29, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to create a Samba file server in Ubuntu and allow client computers to access files with different permission levels. In this post, we’re going to create three folders with different levels of permissions. One shared...
