CentOS

Initial Server Setup with CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with CentOS 7

This tutorial explains the first steps you need to take after creating your CentOS 7 server, including how to login with root, change the root password, create a new user, give the new user root privileges, change the SSH port, and how to disable root login in.

Read more
How To Install CouchDB from Source on a CentOS 6 x64 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install CouchDB from Source on a CentOS 6 x64 VPS

CouchDB is a NoSQL database developed by The Apache Software Foundation that “uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API”. Often called “a database that completely embraces the web”, it’s used by many startups as well as corporations due to its flexibility and scalability.

Read more
How To Install WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on CentOS 7

WordPress is currently the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. It allows you to easily set up flexible blogs and websites on top of a database backend, using PHP to execute scripts and process dynamic content. WordPress has a large online community for…

Read more
Initial Server Setup with CentOS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with CentOS

When you first create a new CentOS server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent actions. This guide will cover setting up a non-root user with sudo, and setting up a basic firewall.

Read more
How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7

While connecting to your server through SSH can be very secure, the SSH daemon itself is a service that must be exposed to the internet to function properly. This comes with some inherent risk and offers a vector of attack for would-be assailants.

Read more
How To Configure vsftpd to Use SSL/TLS on a CentOS VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure vsftpd to Use SSL/TLS on a CentOS VPS

FTP was a popular file sharing mechanism for network connected computers in the past. However, its usage has fallen out of favor due to inherent security flaws. In this guide, we will discuss how to use SSL/TLS to improve the security of your FTP sessions if you must continue to use this protocol.

Read more
CHAT