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How To Upgrade to PHP 7 on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Upgrade to PHP 7 on CentOS 7

PHP 7.0 was released on December 3, 2015. It promises substantial speed improvements over previous versions of the language, along with new features like scalar type hinting. This guide explains how to quickly upgrade a PHP 5.x installation on a CentOS 7 system with Apache or Nginx, using community-provided packages.

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 7

SSL certificates are used within web servers to encrypt the traffic between the server and client, providing extra security for users accessing your application. Let’s Encrypt provides an easy way to obtain and install trusted certificates for free.

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How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on CentOS 7

SFTP stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol. As its name suggests, it’s a secure way of transferring files to a server using an encrypted SSH connection. n a standard configuration, the SSH server grants file transfer access and terminal shell access to all users with an account on the system. In this tutorial, we’ll set up the SSH daemon to limit SFTP access to one directory with no SSH access allowed on per user basis.

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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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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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