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Install 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: 14/05/2019 | Updated: 30/05/2019Remove .php extension with NGiNX
Removing .php or .html extension from your website URL when using NGiNX can be quite frustrating, luckily there is a quick and simple solution that we can use in order to fix this and no, it is not called .htaccess as you used to do it when using Apache as web server. It is a nice and elegant solution where you can manage this straight from your .conf file. In this short tutorial we will guide you step by step how to remove .php and .html extension from your URL when using NGiNX, this is a pretty good solution to […]
Category: General | Published: 09/04/2019 | Updated: 23/04/2019Setting 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: | Updated: 26/08/2019Python 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: | Updated: 28/05/2019NGiNX 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: 02/06/2019Install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7
In this tutorial we will talk about how to install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7. These packages can be required for various reasons like for example during installation of some NodeJS packages like GraphQL. Vips tools and development packages can be easily obtained and installed from Remi repo, unfortunately by default these packages are not present on CentOS repos. So let’s start our short step by step tutorial tutorial about installing Vips on CentOS 7. Table of contents Install Epel repo Install yum-utils Install and enable Remi repo Install vips (libvips) Install Epel repo On our very […]
Category: General | Published: | Updated: 23/04/2019