CentOS
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How to install and configure Varnish 3 with Nginx 1.6 on Centos 6
Varnish is a great web application accelerator. Both varnish and nginx can be configured as a httpd cached proxy, but varnish is more advanced in caching (varnish can cache whole page both static and dynamic page), and nginx works better as a web server. Previously I wrote an tutorial How to install and configure Varnish with Apache on Centos 6, but…
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How to install VNC Server on CentOS 6
I have been writing tutorials how to work with Linux server in the terminal. For any Linux Administrator, we don’t need a GUI (graphical user interface) to work efficiency in Linux, but sometimes it’s nice to have a GUI to web browser, view/edit documents, watch videos comfortably. If you have some/many idle VPS (virtual private server) or dedicated server, why…
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How to install gui to centos minimal
I have centos 6.3 minimal running as web server. I’m looking to install gui to my server to vnc to my server. You can install a group of packages with groupinstall command on centos, fedora, or red hat. All you have to do is to install the whole group of packages without installing many single packages at a time. Centos…
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How to install XAMPP 1.8.3 with PHP 5.5.11 on Centos Sever
XAMPP is a collection of packages includes Apache web server, MySQL databse server, PEAR, SQLite, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, GD, Freetype, openLDAP and nessary libraries. If you are not comfortable to install/configure each package separately, XAMPP is a good choice for you since everything is configured with XAMPP. XAMPP isn’t only run on Linux, XAMPP is an open source cross-platform means you…
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IP Restrict access with GeoIP database on nginx
I will guide you how to to install GeoIP on nginx to restrict IP with GeoIP database. By default, when you install modules from yum, nginx will not come with GeoIP module (This is module: HttpGeoipModule), so we will install from source and the active the module. If you have installed nginx on your server, using nginx-V to see if…
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How to change date, time, timezone on centos 6
When I was tweaking one of my linux server, I found out that the time of my server isn’t match with my local time. It’s hard to read logs with different time zone from your server, so I decided to change the timezone of my server to the my current timezone. I believe it was set with EST time. It…
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How to install and configure Varnish with Apache on Centos 6
Varnish (HTTP accelerator) is an open source reverse HTTP proxy that you put in front of Apache web server to speed up your Apache web server 10x to 300x depends on your server setup. WordPress comes with many PHP based caching plugins like W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fast Cache, WP Fastest Cache and more to reduce server…
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How to setup a LAMP server Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP on Centos 6 VPS
VPS is basically a virtual server or “container” on a larger dedicated server. You will have full control/access (reinstall OS, start/stop/reboot, full root access and such) of your VPS just the same as real dedicated server but with much lower cost since you share the real dedicated server with other people. I will show you how to setup a LAMP…
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How to install nginx by compiling source
Nginx is an open source, fast, light weight and highly customable web server that is similar to Apache. Unfortunately configuring and setting him up is not that easy compared to Apache. nginx is both web server and reverse proxy server. Modules can not be loaded later via a config file like Apache modules, they must be compiled into the Nginx binary.…
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How to install nginx on centos
How can I install Nginx web server On CentOS Linux 6 or Red Hat? Nginx is faster at serving static files and consumes much less memory for concurrent requests because Nginx is event-based it doesn’t need to spawn new processes or threads for each request, so its memory usage is very low. Add nginx yum repository nano /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo add this…