Bash script to change Name servers on BIND DNS Zones in CentOS7/RHEL7
DNS is one of the most important components of web hosting. It resolves addresses which allows websites to be accessed online via domain names and emails to be sent/received. Due…
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Basic Server Security Configuration
When you setup a new server, it takes just 5 hours before it starts receiving attacks. A developer’s primary concerns revolve around getting their application to run, getting some component…
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How Your WordPress Site Gets Hacked
Having your website hacked is one experience you wouldn’t like yet many people have had to deal with this one or more times. WordPress is the most popular content management…
Read More »How to Create or Remove SWAP File in Centos 7
Swap refers to disk space used when the RAM is full. Inactive pages in RAM are pushed to swap to free up some RAM space for current processes to use….
Read More »How to Disable MySQL Strict Mode on Centos 7
Strict Mode in MySQL controls how MySQL handles invalid or missing values in statements such as INSERT and UPDATE. If strict mode is not in effect, MySQL inserts adjusted values…
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How to create a Database Server using MariaDB on Centos 7
In our project, the database server will run on MariaDB Prerequisites A VPS with Centos 7 installed Root access to the VPS What do we want? We intend to setup…
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Generate CSR for your domain from Terminal in Centos 7
To obtain an SSL certificate, a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) must be generated. This can be done using openssl on Linux based servers. The procedure is as follows: 1. Install…
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How to create a DNS server using BIND in Centos 7
How to create a DNS server using BIND in Centos 7 We all know that domains need name servers to operate. As part of a simple project covered in this…
Read More »How to issue a new cPanel SSL on server hostname
Have you ever installed cPanel on a server and it comes with an self signed SSL certificate? Or have you ever changed the hostname of your server and experienced issues…
Read More »How to configure custom apache redirects in Centos WebPanel (CWP)
Most times server admins would like to have users redirected to specific URLs when accessing the server. One example is when accessing a control panel login page. A good security…
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