Ubuntu 16.04

How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial you will secure your website served by Nginx with an Origin CA certificate from Cloudflare and configure Nginx to use authenticated pull requests. The advantages of using this setup are that you benefit from Cloudflare’s CDN and fast DNS resolution while ensuring that all connections pass through Cloudflare. This prevents any malicious requests from reaching your server.

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How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu 16.04

Apache Tomcat is a web server and servlet container that is used to serve Java applications. Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, released by the Apache Software Foundation. This tutorial covers the basic installation…

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How To Install Ruby on Rails with rbenv on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Ruby on Rails with rbenv on Ubuntu 16.04

Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular application stacks for developers looking to create sites and web apps. You can easily install Ruby and Rails with the command-line tool rbenv. Using rbenv will provide you with a solid environment for developing your Ruby on Rails applications as it will let you easily switch Ruby versions, keeping your entire team on the same version.

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How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 16.04

Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they would eventually consume all available disk space on a system. In this article, we will explore the default Logrotate configuration, then configure log rotation for a fictional custom application.

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How To Secure Nginx with NAXSI on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Nginx with NAXSI on Ubuntu 16.04

You can greatly increase the security of your Nginx server by using a module like NAXSI. NAXSI (Nginx Anti XSS & SQL Injection) is a free, third-party Nginx module that provides web application firewall features. In this tutorial, you will use NAXSI to secure Nginx on your Ubuntu 16.04 server. By the end of this tutorial, you will know what kinds of attacks NAXSI can block and how to configure NAXSI rules.

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How To Set Up a Samba Share For A Small Organization on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Samba Share For A Small Organization on Ubuntu 16.04

Samba is an open-source implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol that is used in Windows environments for shared services such as file and printer access and Active Directory. In this guide, you will install and configure a standalone Samba server to provide networked file stores or shares for a hypothetical small organization called Example.com and learn how to access the shares from Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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