Miscellaneous

How To Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on CentOS 7

MQTT is a machine-to-machine messaging protocol, designed to provide lightweight publish/subscribe communication to “Internet of Things” devices. Mosquitto is a popular MQTT server (or broker, in MQTT parlance) that has great community support and is easy to install and configure. In this tutorial, we’ll install Mosquitto, retrieve SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and set up our broker to use SSL to secure our password-protected MQTT communications.

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Comment lire et configurer les variables d'environnement et de shell sous Linux — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Comment lire et configurer les variables d’environnement et de shell sous Linux

Dans les systèmes Linux, les variables d’environnement et de shell servent à configurer les conditions d’utilisation du shell. Vous pouvez les transmettre aux processus enfant et les utiliser pour configurer des options. Vous pouvez également mettre certaines informations à la disposition des processus qui se déclenchent pendant la session. Tout au long de ce guide, nous allons parler de la manière de lire, modifier, créer et détruire des variables d’environnement et de shell.

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How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04

Node-RED is a switchboard for the Internet of Things, a visual tool that helps you connect your favorite apps, websites, and hardware together to do new and useful things. Node-RED has a powerful and flexible interface, and a large open source community creating *nodes* to interact with a wide variety of apps and services. In this tutorial, we’ll install Node.js and Node-RED, get an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt, and use Nginx to handle secure connections for Node-RED.

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How To Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 14.04

VNC is a connection system that allows you to manage your Ubuntu server with a graphical desktop environment. With VNC, you can use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical display of your remote server, making it easier to work with the server.

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How To Host a Website with Caddy on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website with Caddy on CentOS 7

[Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) is a new web server which can be used in place of Apache or Nginx to serve websites. It has been created with ease of use in mind and has become a common choice for developers who want to quickly run a website without working out difficult configuration files. In this tutorial, you will install and configure Caddy. After following this tutorial, you will have a simple working website served using HTTP/2 and a secure TLS connection.

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How To Use the LESS CSS Preprocessor on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use the LESS CSS Preprocessor on an Ubuntu VPS

In this tutorial, we will see how you can install LESS and get started using it on the server-side. For this, it assumes you are already running your own VPS with Ubuntu and a web server installed on it if you want to see something in the browser (but not necessary at this level). Additionally, you will have to install Node.js and NPM (Node Package Manager).

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