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How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing

HAProxy is an open source software which can load balance HTTP and TCP servers. In the previous article on HAProxy we configured load balancing for HTTP and in this one we’ll do the same for MySQL. All your MySQL servers have to be configured to perform Master-Master replication as load balancing involves both reading and writing to all the backends.

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How To Set Up mod_rewrite for Apache on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up mod_rewrite for Apache on CentOS 7

Apache is a modular web server that allows you to customize its capabilities by enabling and disabling modules. This provides administrators the ability to tailor the functionality of Apache to meet the needs of their web application.

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How To Install Wordpress with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install WordPress with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04

Wordpress is a free and open source website and blogging tool that uses php and MySQL. It was created in 2003 and has since then expanded to manage 22% of all the new websites created and has over 20,000 plugins to customize its functionality. This tutorial shows how to install Wordpress on a server with LEMP (with nginx instead of apache). It is written for Ubuntu 12.04.

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Gentoo Linux — app-shells/bash — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — app-shells/bash — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202105-34 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18276 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bash incorrectly dropped privileges by setting its effective UID to its real UID. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04

MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, and verify that it is running and has a safe initial configuration.

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Alpine Linux edge — libpcap — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libpcap — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.9.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libpcap 1.9.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16301 CVE-2019-15161 CVE-2019-15162 CVE-2019-15163 CVE-2019-15164 CVE-2019-15165 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships libpcap 1.9.1-r0 which addresses CVE-2018-16301. Table of […]

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Debian 10 Firewall Rules Block Required Service Ports

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 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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How to Configure CMake Build System on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure CMake Build System on Debian 10

Introduction How to Configure CMake Build System 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 10. […]

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Gentoo Linux — net-libs/rabbitmq-c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-libs/rabbitmq-c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202003-07 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18609 Upstream summary: It was discovered that RabbitMQ C client incorrectly handled certain inputs. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step […]

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Debian 10 — ruby-redcarpet — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — ruby-redcarpet — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 April 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-26298 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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