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NGiNX SSL Setup and 301 Redirects
NGiNX SSL setup and 301 redirects, this is how is called our next tutorial where we will explain in just a few easy steps how to setup a SSL certificate on NGiNX and also how to force client browser to use HTTPS by managing all necessary 301 redirects served from HTTP protocol on port 80 to HTTPS protocol on port 443. The journey from a non-secured domain to a secured one is quite easy to implement with NGiNX and also very easy to maintain and renew in the future. This solution was tested using a CentOS 7 server but it […]
Category: General | Published: 06/04/2019 | Updated: 02/06/2019Setup a Private Docker Registry
Setting up a private Docker registry locally for our organisation or maybe for personal use can be seen as a must if we don’t want to expose publicly our custom Docker images. It is true that we can easily get a private repository if we would go for a paid subscription to one of the providers available out there on the market that are offering such services, but why doing so when we can simply do it by ourselves, internally, completely isolated and being under our control. Having a private Docker repository / registry will give us the ability to […]
Category: Docker | Published: 20/12/2019 | Updated: 31/12/2019Secure 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: 19/07/2019Enforce SSL on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Enabling SSL on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Classic Elastic Load Balancer is not that easy, it might seem impossible when for example we have to use a standard PHP Environment for our application deployment. Unfortunately Amazon AWS does not provide any option or additional tools to achieve this when using Classic Elastic Load Balancer and we will end up using being HTTP or HTTPS. There is no way to set up a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS being on Classic EB or ELB. No matter how unrealistic this it may sound taking into account that nothing publicly exposed should respond […]
Category: AWS | Published: 11/04/2019 | Updated: 23/04/2019Setup an SFTP Server on CentOS
Set up an SFTP server on CentOS is our next tutorial where we will guide you as always, step by step, how to build from scratch such a server. We all agree that an SFTP server can be quite handy or sometimes a must if for example one or more applications within our stack requires file transfer between different processing steps or maybe for backups. In this tutorial we will learn how to build an SFTP server on CentOS 7 and OpenSSH 7.4 and also providing you two authentication solutions, first one being based on using basic password authentication and […]
Category: General | Published: 08/11/2018 | Updated: 14/12/2018Empty file content on Linux can be quite handy when for example you want to empty a small or a very big log file or any other similar files that could take long time to open, select all lines and finally remove these lines. We know is not so complex to go down this path but for sure is time consuming, too many operations we would say for such a simple task. This quick tutorial will show you ten easy ways how to empty a file on Linux without opening or editing files, nothing fancy or advanced stuff but as […]
Category: General | Published: 06/11/2018 | Updated: 06/11/2018