Web Servers

Let's Encrypt: Migrating From TLS-SNI-01

Let's Encrypt is a free service that generates certificates to secure your website. It supports generating different types of certificates, including single-domain and wildcard. In addition, it has numerous methods to authenticate your domain to generate ...

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How to Install Apache 2.4, MariaDB 10.3, and PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this article, you will learn how to setup an up-to-date LAMP stack by installing the latest stable releases of Apache 2.4 and MariaDB 10.3 on Ubuntu 18.04. Note: Ubuntu 18.04 ships with PHP 7.2 already installed, so we will only need to install some n...

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How to Install Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 18.04

Install Apache First, update your package manager. sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get upgrade -y Install and start Apache. sudo apt-get install apache2 -y sudo systemctl start apache2.service Verify that Apache was installed without errors by acce...

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How to Install and Configure PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

PHP and related packages are the most commonly used components when deploying a web server. In this article, we will learn how to setup PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Prerequisites An up-to-date Ubuntu 18.04 server instance. A sudo user. Update Ubuntu ...

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How to Install AWStats on Fedora 28

AWStats is a useful tool for analyzing web traffic. Its HTML interface can be accessed through the browser, giving you easy insights about who is viewing your website. This tutorial will walk you through installing, configuring, and securing AWStats for a...

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Creating a Simple Website on Vultr With OpenBSD and httpd

Introduction The purpose of this guide is to show you how easy it is to make a homepage for your website on Vultr with OpenBSD and httpd. Creating the Instance Head over to https://my.vultr.com/deploy/. This is the main page for deploying new servers. ...

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Setup Nginx-RTMP on CentOS 7

RTMP is great for serving live content. When RTMP is paired with FFmpeg, streams can be converted into various qualities. Vultr is great for these applications as they provide fast and dedicated CPU performance. Vultr’s global network also ensures that yo...

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How to Install Rocket.Chat on Debian 9

Rocket.Chat is an open source Slack-like team communication solution which can be deployed on your own server. With Rocket.Chat, you can chat with your team members and friends over audio and video, interact with website visitors in real time, share files...

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Deploy a PHP Application Using Docker-compose

PHP applications are usually composed by a webserver, a relational database system and the language interpreter itself. In this tutorial we will be leveraging a full PHP application stack using docker. This is an in-depth tutorial in which we are going t...

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Compile and Install Nginx With the PageSpeed Module on Debian 8

In this article, we will see how to compile and install Nginx mainline from the official sources of Nginx with the PageSpeed module, which allows you to accelerate your website through several filters. These filters act on HTML, images, CSS or Javascript....

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