Rocky Linux 8

How To Install MariaDB on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MariaDB on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the latest version of MariaDB on a Rocky Linux 8 […]

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Initial Server Setup with Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with Rocky Linux 8

When you first create a new Rocky Linux 8 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.

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How To Install MySQL on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MySQL on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction MySQL is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It implements the relational model and Structured Query Language (SQL) to manage and query data. This tutorial explains how to install MySQL version 8 on a Rocky Linux 8 server. Prerequisites To complete this […]

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How To Install Nginx on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Nginx on Rocky Linux 8

Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and highest-traffic sites on the internet. It is more resource-friendly than Apache in most cases and can be used as a web server or reverse proxy. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install Nginx on a Rocky Linux 8 server.

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How To Install Node.js on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Node.js on Rocky Linux 8

In this guide, we will show you three different ways of getting Node.js installed on a Rocky Linux 8 server: using `dnf` to install the `nodejs` package from Rocky’s default AppStream repository; installing via the NodeSource repository; installing `nvm`, the Node Version Manager, and using it to install and manage multiple versions of `node`

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How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8

Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that uses sets of community created and user defined signatures (also referred to as rules) to examine and process network traffic. In this tutorial you will learn how to install Suricata, and how to customize some of its default settings on Rocky Linux 8 to suit your needs.

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How to Keep Rocky Linux 8 Servers Updated — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Keep Rocky Linux 8 Servers Updated

the cloud provider makes it possible for you to run as many droplets as you need for a project with one click. However, it’s more straightforward to deploy a server than it is to maintain one, and as you scale up your infrastructure, and droplets end up having longer project lifespans than you originally envisioned, you may find that you have some unanswered questions about maintenance. There are many steps you can take to ensure your servers will continue to work securely without future intervention.

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How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8

In this guide, you will learn how to install `fail2ban` on a Rocky Linux 8 server and configure it to monitor your Nginx logs for intrusion attempts. Fail2ban can significantly mitigate brute force attacks by creating rules that automatically alter your firewall configuration to ban specific IPs after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts. This will allow your server to harden itself against these access attempts without intervention from you.

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