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How to Configure Nginx with ModSecurity WAF on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx with ModSecurity WAF on RHEL 7

How to Configure Nginx with ModSecurity WAF on RHEL 7 While ModSecurity is most commonly associated with Apache, it also runs as a dynamic module for Nginx through the ModSecurity-nginx connector. On RHEL 7, the official Nginx packages do not ship with ModSecurity built in, so you have two practical paths: compile Nginx and ModSecurity […]

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How to Configure Nginx Load Balancing on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Load Balancing on RHEL 7

How to Configure Nginx Load Balancing on RHEL 7 As web applications grow in traffic, a single backend server eventually becomes a bottleneck. Nginx’s upstream module provides built-in load balancing that distributes incoming requests across multiple backend servers, improving throughput, redundancy, and fault tolerance. Unlike Nginx Plus, the open-source version included in RHEL 7’s EPEL […]

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How to Manage System Packages with yum on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage System Packages with yum on RHEL 7

How to Manage System Packages with yum on RHEL 7 Package management is one of the most fundamental skills for a RHEL 7 system administrator. The Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum) is the default package manager on RHEL 7, and it handles everything from installing and removing software to managing repositories, grouping related packages, and maintaining […]

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How to Use journalctl for Systemd Log Analysis on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use journalctl for Systemd Log Analysis on RHEL 7

How to Use journalctl for Systemd Log Analysis on RHEL 7 On RHEL 7, the traditional syslog infrastructure is complemented — and in many cases replaced — by the systemd journal, managed by systemd-journald. The journalctl command is your primary interface for querying, filtering, and exporting log data collected by this service. Unlike flat text […]

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How to Monitor Disk Usage with df, du, lsblk and ncdu on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Disk Usage with df, du, lsblk and ncdu on RHEL 7

How to Monitor Disk Usage with df, du, lsblk and ncdu on RHEL 7 Running out of disk space is one of the most disruptive events in a production Linux environment — it can crash databases, halt web servers, and fill system logs with errors. Proactive disk usage monitoring is therefore a non-negotiable part of […]

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How to Configure Log Rotation with logrotate on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Log Rotation with logrotate on RHEL 7

How to Configure Log Rotation with logrotate on RHEL 7 Log files are essential for diagnosing system problems, tracking security events, and auditing application behavior. However, without proper management, log files grow without bound and can fill your disk, causing service outages and making historical logs difficult to navigate. logrotate is the standard log rotation […]

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How to Monitor System Resources with htop, top and vmstat on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor System Resources with htop, top and vmstat on RHEL 7

How to Monitor System Resources with htop, top and vmstat on RHEL 7 Effective system monitoring is the foundation of proactive administration. Whether you are troubleshooting a performance complaint, capacity planning for a growing workload, or simply verifying that a server is running within normal parameters, having command-line resource monitoring tools at your fingertips is […]

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How to Create and Manage Swap Space on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Create and Manage Swap Space on RHEL 7

How to Create and Manage Swap Space on RHEL 7 Swap space is a designated area on disk that the Linux kernel uses as an overflow when physical RAM is exhausted. While swap is not a substitute for adequate RAM — disk I/O is orders of magnitude slower than memory access — it is a […]

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How to Deploy a .NET Application on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a .NET Application on RHEL 8

Microsoft’s .NET 8 runtime and SDK are available for RHEL 8 directly from Red Hat’s AppStream and Microsoft’s package feed, making it straightforward to run modern ASP.NET Core applications on enterprise Linux. This tutorial covers installing the .NET 8 SDK, scaffolding a minimal Web API project, running it for local testing, publishing a self-contained Release […]

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How to Install Java and Configure JAVA_HOME on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Java and Configure JAVA_HOME on RHEL 8

RHEL 8 ships multiple Java Development Kits through the AppStream module, allowing teams to run Java 11 and Java 17 workloads side by side on the same host without conflicts. The alternatives system acts as a switchboard, letting administrators change the active JDK globally or per user in seconds. This tutorial walks through installing Java […]

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