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Common Problems 115615

RHEL 7 NFS Access Denied By firewalld Missing Ports

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 6 January 2021 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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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Common Problems 114990

XFS filesystem unexpectedly mounted read-only

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 6 January 2021 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Deploy an Application to Kubernetes on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy an Application to Kubernetes on RHEL 8

Once your Kubernetes cluster is running on RHEL 8, the next essential skill is deploying and managing application workloads using the two most fundamental resource types: Deployments and Services. A Deployment describes the desired state of your application pods and ensures that the specified number of replicas are always running, performing rolling updates and self-healing […]

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How to Set Up a VPN with SSTP on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a VPN with SSTP on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up a VPN with SSTP on Windows Server 2012 R2 Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a Microsoft VPN protocol that encapsulates Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) traffic over an HTTPS connection using SSL/TLS on port 443. SSTP VPNs are highly firewall-friendly because they use the same port as HTTPS web traffic, making them […]

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How to Set Up MySQL with SSL on Oracle Linux 8 — step-by-step Oracle Linux 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up MySQL with SSL on Oracle Linux 8

Introduction Oracle Linux 8 ships with a stable, security-hardened base that makes deploying set up mysql with ssl on oracle linux 8 both straightforward and auditable. This tutorial covers the complete procedure for how to Set Up MySQL with SSL on Oracle Linux 8, including dnf module streams where applicable, systemd unit management, and the […]

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Building for Production: Web Applications — Deploying — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Building for Production: Web Applications — Deploying

In this part of the “Building for Production: Web Applications” series (2 of 6), we will deploy our example PHP application, WordPress, and a private DNS. Your users will access your application over HTTPS via a domain name, e.g. “https://www.example.com”, that points to the load balancer. The load balancer will act as a reverse proxy to the application servers, which will connect to the database server.

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How to Set Up Windows Deployment Services (WDS) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Deployment Services (WDS) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Windows Deployment Services Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a server role in Windows Server 2019 that enables network-based operating system deployment using PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) boot. WDS allows administrators to deploy Windows operating systems to bare-metal machines or to re-image existing machines over the network without physical media. It stores boot images […]

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Common Problems 113120

Windows Server 2016 — Windows Update and web traffic fail due to bad proxy PAC settings — Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 January 2021 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~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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Common Problems 113112

Windows Server 2016 — TLS cipher suite hardening breaks legacy API integrations on internal services — Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 January 2021 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~2 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 Install MariaDB on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install MariaDB on Debian 9 (DEBIAN-9-2)

Introduction How to Install MariaDB on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch 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 9. This tutorial […]

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