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Setup Squid proxy with caching on CentOS
Squid Proxy setup with caching on CentOS is our next short tutorial where we will learn how to install Squid in just a few easy steps, with caching enabled on a CentOS VM. Squid is still one of the best software for setting up a proxy that comes packed with many great features like caching, authentication and many others despite the fact that it has a very small footprint in terms of resources compared to many other solutions available on the market. By using Squid’s caching feature we can save a lot of bandwidth and we can even reduce the […]
Category: General | Published: 26/08/2019 | Updated: 13/09/2019Secure NGiNX with Let’s Encrypt SSL on CentOS 7
Just another tutorial from Tufora where we will be showing you how to secure NGiNX with Let’s Encrypt SSL on CentOS 7. As you are well aware NGiNX is a very powerful software that can be used for various applications and workloads being as HTTP server, reverse proxy, load balancer and nowadays even as router for containers, pretty good portfolio we would say. On this tutorial we will be focusing on securing a NGiNX deployment with a SSL certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt (letsencrypt) using certbot utility on a CentOS 7 server. Table of contents Package instalation Generate Diffie–Hellman Exchange […]
Category: Security | Published: 31/05/2019 | Updated: 19/07/2019Install PHP 7 on CentOS 7 using REMI repo
Install PHP 7 on CentOS 7 using REMI repository is our next short tutorial where we will show you briefly how to install PHP 7 (php-fpm) on CentOS 7. It is true that by using container technologies like Docker for this particular task would be indeed more easy and handy for most of us but maybe from time to time we have to install PHP manually, maybe for a specific project on one of our servers or maybe just for fun. No worries we will be covering PHP 7 (php-fpm) setup on Docker in another tutorial shortly but for now […]
Category: General | Published: 14/05/2019 | Updated: 07/08/2019How to install MySQL 8 on CentOS 7 is our next quick tutorial where we will learn in just a few easy steps how to install and test latest MySQL 8 available – as of today – from Oracle on a CentOS 7 server by using only our terminal window. These days most of modern companies are using Cloud managed services for their databases, some of these with fancy names, different functions, speeds and sizes but sometimes we may have no other choice than to use the classic MySQL. Depending on the project requirements we may have to perform these […]
Category: General | Published: | Updated: 19/07/2019Install latest NGiNX on CentOS 7
In this short tutorial we will learn how to install latest NGiNX version on CentOS 7. In an era of containers and all fancy technologies we have to admit that from time to time we need to look and even go back to the basics and install ourselves, manually services like NGiNX for example. NGiNX is a great web server software being able to perform very well as reverse proxy, load balancer and even as ingress router for container technologies. Indeed the free version of NGiNX may not have all capabilities as the commercial one but still plenty of nice […]
Category: General | Published: | Updated: 30/05/2019Setting up AWS CLI on CentOS 7 is quite straight forward, no need for advanced knowledge or a huge amount of time in order to install this. AWS CLI is a very powerful toolset that helps you to manage all your AWS resources by using the Command Line Interface API calls instead of the well known classic Web Console. AWS CLI can be used and implemented in various projects like Automation, Cost Control, Security Audit etc. giving you the power to manipulate and query all AWS resources in a more granular manner. In this very short tutorial we will guide […]
Category: General | Published: 09/04/2019 | Updated: 26/08/2019