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How to secure Nginx web server
Nam Huy Linux is using Nginx because Nginx is a great lightweight and high performace web server/reverse proxy server. Nginx is the second most popular webserver just after Apache web server, there are many popular sites using Nginx like Wikipedia, Sina, Weibo, Yahoo, Reddit, Tumblr, Worpress… Nginx can easily handle thousands inactive HTTP connections with very low memory consumption. In this…
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How to secure Apache HTTP Web Server
Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server developed by a community of developers and users, supported by non-profit corporation Apache Software Foundation. Apache web server is often placed at the edge of the server to serve httpd traffic hence it’s the most vulnerable service to an attack. Even though Apache has a good history about security, it does…
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How to install LEMP web server with Nginx, PHP-FPM 5.6, MySQL 5.5 on Centos 7
Nginx is one of the most popular web server widely used by many popular websites like facebook, intel, cloudflare, hulu, netflix, dropbox, and more. Unlike Apache web server, nginx is a very light weight web server and proxy server yet comes with the same or even better features. Nginx does not create new process for each http request like Apache…
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How to install LEMP Server (Nginx 1.8, MariaDB 10.1, PHP-FPM 7) on CentOS 7
LEMP stacks are an open source platform for applications that is compatible with the LAMP (refers to a Linux-based operating system, the Apache web server, the MySQL database server, and the PHP programming language). LEMP replaces Apache with Nginx which is light-weight and its ability to scale easily on minimal hardware. This tutorial (How to install LEMP Server (Nginx 1.8,…
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How to setup a LAMP server Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP on Debian 7 wheezy Linux
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (P can be replaced with Perl Or Python). I’m going to show you how to install a standard full-featured LAMP server on Debian 7 Wheezy system. Apache is the most popular web server in the world which more than 50% of web servers in the world are running it. I will use…
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How to install LEMP web server with Nginx, PHP-FPM 5.5, MySQL 5.5 on Centos Linux
I have shown you How to install LEMP server with Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL on Centos with standard packages from Centos repository, which comes with older version of PHP 5.3.x and MySQL 5.1.x. Since there are many new great features from PHP 5.5.x and MySQL 5.5.x which I mentioned in How to install LAMP server with Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.5.37, PHP 5.5.11…
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How to install LAMP server with Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.5.37, PHP 5.5.11 on Centos Linux
I have shown you how to setup a LAMP server Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP on Centos 6 before with default CentOS Provided Repositories CentOS-Base.repo. Hate it or love it, Apache web server has 55% market share which nginx or IIS (Microsoft) can’t beat it yet. By default Centos 6.5 will install: Apache 2.2.15 http HyperText Transfer Protocol web server MySQL 5.1.73 database…
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How to install LEMP server with Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL on Centos
Similar to the LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, LEMP Server (Linux, Nginx or engine-x, MySQL, PHP-FPM or PHP-FastCGI) is an alternative stack of open source software for web server. Unlike Apache, Nginx can increase web server scalability by optimize the web server hardware resources (cpu, memory…) which lead to a very cost effective architecture. Normally Apache creates a new process/thread…
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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 Debian 7
Even thought most people will think Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution, but did you know Ubuntu is based on Debian! Interesting fact isn’t it. Well I’m going to show you How to install VNC Server on Debian 7 wheezy today. If you are not using Debian but Ubuntu, I have also written How to install VNC Server on Ubuntu…