How to set up your own free web server with XAMPP
Nowadays anyone can create their own website easily and free of charge. Whether through a CMS (such as WordPress) or by hand with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, in a few minutes we can have a more or less functional website up and running. However, in order to test that everything…
Category : Servers 25-10-2021 by Silvia Mazzetta
How To Use Varnish As A Highly Available Load Balancer On Ubuntu 20.04 With SSL
Load balancing with high availability can be tough to set up. Fortunately, Varnish HTTP Cache server provides a dead simple highly available load balancer that will also work as a caching server. The modern use of SSL/TLS for all traffic has made this a little harder as Vanish has to handle…
Category : Servers 25-04-2021 by Janeth Kent
WSL2 is released to run Linux distributions on Windows
If you are reading about this for the first time, the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a kind of virtual machine that allows you to run the Linux terminal on the Microsoft system (Windows). From this terminal we can use tools as long as the necessary packages are installed. Now with…
Category : Servers 07-07-2020 by Janeth Kent
How to install Letsencrypt Certificates with Certbot in Ubuntu
In this article we will explain how to install, manage and configure the SSL Security certificate, Let's Encypt in NGINX server used as proxy. This certificate is free but does not offer any guarantee and has to be renewed every 3 months. We recommend that users with shell access use the…
Category : Servers 09-05-2020 by Janeth Kent
Must-Have htaccess Tips for you to Avoid Duplicate Content on Your Site
In order to be able to implement these tips it is necessary that your Apache server already has the mod_rewrite module activated. mod_rewrite and .htaccess are used together so that your site has the possibility to present semantic and public friendly URLs. In the past it was more common to find…
Category : Servers 25-03-2020 by Luigi Nori
How to setup Free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with ISPConfig 3
Let’s Encrypt is an initiative to provide a better way of enabling encryption on websites. It is open, automated and above all: it offers free SSL certificates. Obtaining SSL certificates was always a bit of a hassle and now thanks to Let’s Encrypt and Certbot, finding a certificate authority, doing regular payment,…
Category : Servers 03-12-2019 by Luigi Nori
PHP7: Install PHP7 with NGINX and MEMCACHE in Ubuntu 14.04
Let's install PHP7 and Nginx on a new Ubuntu 14.04 server, and manually build the (not yet packaged) memcached module for PHP7. Command Rundown Update: It looks like the php-memcached package was built into ppa:ondrej/php-php7.0 for php7, so the manual build steps is probably not necessary any longer! Install it via the…
Category : Servers 05-12-2018 by
How to write real client IP address in error Log with Varnish 4 and Apache 2.4 in Ubuntu 16.04
In order to have Varnish 4 pass on the real client IP to your Apache 2.4 error log in Ubuntu 16.04 , you'll need to edit your Varnish configuration (/etc/varnish/default.vcl on Ubuntu) to add an X-Forwarded-For header. Find the vcl_recv section and added the following: sub vcl_recv { unset req.http.X-Forwarded-For; set req.http.X-Forwarded-For =…
Category : Servers 09-03-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure the Mod_Security Core Ruleset in Ubuntu
ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall, a program that can be used to inspect information as it passes through your web server, intercepting malicious requests before they are processed by your web application. This tutorial will show you how to install ModSecurity on Apache, and configure it with some sensible rules provided…
Category : Servers 04-03-2017 by Janeth Kent
How to Connect to a Remote Server via SSH from a Linux Shell
Introduction Secure Shell (SSH) is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting access to a remote computer. SSH is actually a suite of three utilities - slogin, ssh, and scp - that are secure versions of the earlier UNIX utilities, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. SSH commands are encrypted and…
Category : Servers 16-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
Setup FTP server with VSFTPD in Ubuntu 16.04
Introduction FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol that was once widely used for moving files between a client and server. It has since been replaced by faster, more secure, and more convenient ways of delivering files. Many casual Internet users expect to download directly from their web…
Category : Servers 14-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
Install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 on Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus comes with PHP7 by default so you don’t have to rely on third-party PPA to get PHP7 installed. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 (LAMP stack) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus. Update: This tutorial is…
Category : Servers 18-11-2016 by Janeth Kent
Ubuntu servers security: 25 security tools to armor your system
The Ubuntu repositories contain several useful tools for maintaining a secure network and network administration.This security tools include network scanning,attack detection,Virus Detection etc. 1) Wireshark -- network traffic analyzer Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer, or "sniffer", for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and…
Category : Servers 14-09-2016 by Janeth Kent
Install Syncthing on Ubuntu 16.04 using Debian Repository
Syncthing is a free continuous file synchronization tool that lets you synchronize your files across desktops, tablets, servers. It’s an open source alternative to the popular BitTorrent Sync (aka btsync) application. The creation, modification or deletion of files on one machine will automatically be replicated to your other devices. Syncthing…
Category : Servers 19-08-2016 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure Cloudflare Flexible SSL with WordPress website
This article is part of a serie of articles about Wordpress optimization with Cloudflare and some kinds of servers, if you want to understand well read these articles before: Speed up your site and protect it against DDOS attacks with CloudFlare Million of visitors per day with a super cheap php mysql…
Category : Servers 03-12-2015 by Janeth Kent