How to Enable Brotli and Gzip Compression in Nginx on RHEL 7 Compression is one of the highest-return optimizations available for web servers: it requires minimal CPU investment but can reduce text-based response sizes by 60–80%, directly improving page load times and reducing bandwidth costs. Nginx ships with the ngx_http_gzip_module built in and available on […]
How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting and Connection Throttling on RHEL 7 Uncontrolled traffic is one of the most common threats to web server stability. Whether the source is a poorly written client polling too aggressively, a scraper harvesting your content, or a low-volume denial-of-service attack, allowing unlimited requests to reach your application or upstream […]
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 […]
How to Set Up ModSecurity WAF with Apache on RHEL 7 ModSecurity is the most widely deployed open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF), and it integrates natively with Apache as a dynamic module. When paired with the OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS), ModSecurity can detect and block a broad range of web attacks including SQL injection, […]
How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 7 Caddy is a modern, open-source web server written in Go that sets itself apart from traditional servers like Apache and Nginx through its automatic HTTPS provisioning, minimal configuration syntax, and zero-dependency binary distribution. On RHEL 7, where the standard repositories do not include Caddy, […]
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 […]
How to Enable HTTP/2 with Nginx on RHEL 7 HTTP/2 is the major revision of the HTTP network protocol that brings multiplexed streams, header compression, and server push to web traffic. Compared to HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 dramatically reduces page load times on sites with many assets by eliminating head-of-line blocking and reducing the overhead of repeated […]
How to Configure Apache mod_proxy as a Reverse Proxy on RHEL 7 Apache’s mod_proxy module transforms your existing Apache web server into a fully capable reverse proxy without requiring any additional software. On RHEL 7, Apache is the default web server and is frequently already running for other purposes. Rather than installing a second web […]
How to Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on RHEL 7 A reverse proxy sits in front of one or more backend application servers, forwarding incoming client requests and returning the backend responses. Nginx is exceptionally well-suited for this role due to its event-driven architecture and low memory footprint. On RHEL 7, a common pattern […]
How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt and Certbot on RHEL 7 Running your Apache web server over plain HTTP exposes your users to traffic interception and degrades trust in modern browsers. Let’s Encrypt provides free, trusted TLS certificates that can be automated entirely on the command line. Certbot is the official Let’s Encrypt client […]
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