web server

How to Deploy a Node.js Application with PM2 on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Node.js Application with PM2 on RHEL 8

PM2 is a production-grade process manager for Node.js applications that handles automatic restarts on crashes, log aggregation, clustering, and startup script generation for Linux init systems including systemd. Unlike running Node.js directly with node app.js, PM2 keeps your application alive across failures and server reboots without writing custom systemd unit files for every project. On […]

Read more
How to Configure HTTP/2 on Nginx on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure HTTP/2 on Nginx on Debian 9

Introduction Deploying configure http/2 on nginx on debian 9 on a Debian 9 Stretch machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites You will […]

Read more
How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on RHEL 8

The Kubernetes Dashboard is a web-based UI that gives cluster operators a visual overview of workloads, services, namespaces, and resource utilization without dropping into kubectl for every task. On RHEL 8 with a running Kubernetes cluster, deploying the dashboard takes only a few kubectl commands. This tutorial covers installation, creating a service account with the […]

Read more
How to Enable Brotli Compression in Nginx on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Enable Brotli Compression in Nginx on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Enable Brotli Compression in Nginx on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for […]

Read more
How to Configure an SMTP Server on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure an SMTP Server on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 SMTP Server An SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server on Windows Server 2016 allows the server to send outbound email messages — for example, for application alerts, scheduled task notifications, or as a relay for internal applications. Windows Server 2016 includes an SMTP Server feature that can be configured […]

Read more
How to Configure a Virtual Host in Apache on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure a Virtual Host in Apache on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure a Virtual Host in Apache on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to […]

Read more
How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7

How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7 Podman is a daemonless, rootless container engine developed by Red Hat that is fully compatible with the OCI (Open Container Initiative) standard and largely compatible with the Docker CLI. Unlike Docker, Podman does not require a long-running background daemon running as root, which […]

Read more
Common Problems 115552

Apache returns 503 because php-fpm is down

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 September 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

Read more
How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8

Logrotate is the standard log rotation utility on RHEL 8, responsible for automatically compressing, archiving, and pruning log files before they consume excessive disk space. Without it, long-running applications like NGINX, custom services, and Java applications can silently fill a filesystem partition and cause outages. Logrotate ships with RHEL 8 and is already configured for […]

Read more
How to Configure Application Performance Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Application Performance Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Application Performance Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) on Windows Server 2012 R2 encompasses a set of tools and techniques that measure how well application workloads perform, identify bottlenecks, and alert on degradation. Unlike infrastructure monitoring which focuses on CPU, memory, and disk, APM targets application-specific metrics: response […]

Read more
CHAT