How to Set Up a LAMP Stack on RHEL 7 A LAMP stack — Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP — is one of the most widely deployed web server configurations in the world. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, setting up a fully functional LAMP stack requires pulling packages from multiple repositories, because RHEL 7’s […]
Containerd is a lightweight, high-performance container runtime that serves as the default container engine for Kubernetes since Docker was deprecated as a direct runtime in Kubernetes 1.24. On RHEL 8, installing containerd from the Docker CE repository gives you a stable, well-supported runtime that integrates cleanly with kubeadm and supports the CRI (Container Runtime Interface) […]
PHP runs on millions of web servers, but a default installation leaves many dangerous settings enabled that attackers can exploit. On RHEL 8, hardening PHP through /etc/php.ini is one of the most impactful steps you can take to protect your application without touching a single line of code. This tutorial covers the most important security-oriented […]
How to Configure LVM on RHEL 7 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is one of the most powerful storage management tools available on Linux. Unlike traditional partitioning, LVM introduces an abstraction layer between physical storage devices and the file systems that use them, enabling administrators to resize volumes online, create snapshots for consistent backups, and pool […]
Reliable backups are the last line of defense against data loss from hardware failures, ransomware, or accidental deletion, and on RHEL 8 the combination of rsync and cron provides a powerful, scriptable, and dependency-free backup pipeline. rsync is a fast incremental file-transfer utility that only copies changed data, making it efficient for both local and […]
Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in the world, offering an elegant syntax, a powerful ORM (Eloquent), built-in authentication scaffolding, and a rich ecosystem of first-party packages. Installing Laravel on RHEL 8 involves a few more steps than on a generic Linux distribution because of SELinux and the systemd-managed PHP-FPM service. This tutorial guides […]
Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service written in Go that provides a GitHub-like web interface with a tiny resource footprint — ideal for teams that want a simple hosted Git server without the overhead of a full GitLab installation. On RHEL 8, Gitea can be set up in under an hour using a single […]
SonarQube is an open-source static analysis platform that inspects code quality, detects bugs, security vulnerabilities, and code smells across more than thirty programming languages. On RHEL 8, SonarQube requires a Java 17 runtime, a PostgreSQL database for persistent storage, and several Linux kernel tuning parameters to run reliably. This tutorial guides you through every installation […]
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a host-based intrusion detection tool that detects unauthorized changes to files and directories by comparing a live system snapshot against a baseline database. On RHEL 8, AIDE is available directly from the standard repositories and integrates cleanly with systemd for scheduled integrity checks. Detecting modified binaries, configuration files, or […]
How to Set Up a Highly Available Web Stack with Keepalived on RHEL 7 High availability eliminates single points of failure by ensuring that if one server goes down, another takes over seamlessly. For web servers, one of the most common HA patterns is a Virtual IP (VIP) address that floats between two or more […]
