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How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache on Arch Linux — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache on Arch Linux

A SSL certificate is a way to encrypt a site’s information and create a more secure connection. Additionally, the certificate can show the virtual private server’s identification information to site visitors. Certificate Authorities can issue SSL certificates that verify the server’s details while a self-signed certificate has no 3rd party corroboration. Here’s how to create a SSL certificate on Apache on Arch Linux.

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How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on CentOS 7

How fast a website will load depends on the size of all of the files that have to be downloaded by the browser. Reducing the size of files to be transmitted can make the website not only load faster, but also cheaper to those who have to pay for their bandwidth usage. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to configure Nginx installed on your CentOS 7 server to utilize `gzip` compression to reduce the size of content sent to website visitors.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — db5.3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — db5.3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4004-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-8457 CVE-2017-10140 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information. Table of […]

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Arch Linux — gobby — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — gobby — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202101-26 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35450 Upstream summary: Type: denial of service. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1:0.5.0+112+gd16519e-1. Fixed in: 1:0.5.0+116+g295e697-1. Group: AVG-1383. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Hibernate One To Many Mapping Example Annotation — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Hibernate One To Many Mapping Example Annotation

Today we will look into One To Many Mapping in Hibernate. We will look into Hibernate One To Many Mapping example using Annotation and XML configuration. One To Many Mapping in Hibernate ![one to many mapping in hibernate, hibernate one to many mapping, hibernate mapping example, hibernate one to many mapping annotation example](images/hibernate-one-to-many-mapping-annotation-section-1.png) In simple […]

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How to Set Up pgBouncer Connection Pooler on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up pgBouncer Connection Pooler on Debian 10

Introduction How to Set Up pgBouncer Connection Pooler on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian […]

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Debian 10: certbot renewal fails because web server port is occupied

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 April 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Apache returns 503 due to PHP-FPM issues

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 April 2020 Affected versions: 14.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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FreeBSD 12 — cde — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — cde — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: x11/cde — Local privilege escalation via CDE dtsession Related CVEs: CVE-2020-2696 Upstream summary: Marco Ivaldi (marco.ivaldi () mediaservice net) reports: A buffer overflow in the CheckMonitor() function in the Common […]

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