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How to Install WordPress with LEMP on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install WordPress with LEMP on Ubuntu 22.04

WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) on the internet, allows users to set up flexible blogs and websites using a MySQL backend with PHP processing. WordPress is a great choice for getting a website up and running efficiently. After an initial setup, almost all administration for WordPress websites can be done through its graphical interface.

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How To Protect Your Server Against the Dirty COW Linux Vulnerability — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect Your Server Against the Dirty COW Linux Vulnerability

On October 21, 2016, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel was disclosed. The bug is nicknamed Dirty COW because the underlying issue was a race condition in the way kernel handles copy-on-write (COW). Exploiting this bug means that a regular, unprivileged user on your server can gain write access to any file they can read, and can therefore increase their privileges on the system. This tutorial explains how to protect your server from this vulnerability.

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How To Reset Your MySQL or MariaDB Root Password — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Reset Your MySQL or MariaDB Root Password

Forgetting passwords happens to the best of us. If you forget or lose the root password to your MySQL or MariaDB database, you can still gain access and reset the password if you have access to the server and a sudo-enabled user account. This tutorial will cover how to…

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu

Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that facilitates obtaining and installing free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. Currently, the entire process of obtaining and installing a certificate is fully automated on both Apache and Nginx with the use of Certbot. In this guide, we’ll use Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate for Apache on Ubuntu and make sure this certificate is set up to renew automatically.

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