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Secure 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: 19/07/2019Python is one of the most used programming language and in this tutorial we will show you how to install Python from source on a CentOS 7 operating system. We can safely say that Python, conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum, comes these days preinstalled on most Linux distributions. If it is not there by default then we can always install it, for example on CentOS we can get Python using yum utility but as we know that will not be the latest Python version available. We may have a new project that requires to be built […]
Category: General | Published: 09/04/2019 | Updated: 28/05/2019How to install Elasticsearch 2.4 and OpenResty on CentOS 7
In this tutorial we’ll explain how to install and configure a three node Elasticsearch 2.4 cluster on CentOS 7. Also, we’ll learn how to install OpenResty that will provide a layer of security for our Elasticsearch cluster, Elasticsearch-HQ that will give us some nice metrics, Kopf plugin and of course Kibana. Why ES 2.4? Well it’s complicated but lets say we’ve choose 2.4 just because this particular version isn’t supported anymore by Elastic and some of you may be “forced” to use this version for a while until you redesign your software to comply with a newer version in terms […]
Category: Security | Published: 18/04/2018 | Updated: 05/11/2018In this example we will explain how to generate CSR in Linux using shell prompt or terminal window. A CSR is mostly required when you want to secure for example a website or a connection between one or more services that requires a secure connection. Any SSL issuer will always ask you to generate and present a CSR. We’ve chose CentOS for this Certificate Signing Request example as our main operating system. Required packages First step is to make sure that we have openssl and openssl-devel packages installed and updated in order to generate our very first CSR. The package manager […]
Category: Security | Published: 24/01/2018 | Updated: 05/11/2018