Month: June 2021

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install PHP 7 x on Rocky Linux 8

Installing the EPEL and Remi Repository

For this we use the PHP 7.x packaged by Remi, a third-party repository which offers multiple versions of PHP 7.x and 8.x

First, lets install the EPEL repository,

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Next, install the Remi repository with the following command,

yum install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

List the available PHP module stream

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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Composer on Rocky Linux 8

Composer is basically a dependency manager for the programming language, PHP. It functions as some sort of project manager that helps the programmer manage dependencies that will be used on a project to project basis.

Installing PHP

Install PHP by running the following command.

dnf install @php

Output:

[root@server ~]# dnf install @php
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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Docker on Rocky Linux 8

What is Docker?

Docker is basically a container engine which uses the Linux Kernel in order to create the containers on top of an operating system. Which is use to create, deploy and run applications in a containerized environment.

First, check and install any pending system updates.

yum update 

Adding Docker repository

Enable the Docker CE repository by running the following command.

dnf config-manager 

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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8

Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention framework written in the Python programming language. It works by reading SSH, ProFTP, Apache logs, etc. And uses iptables profiles to block brute-force attempts.

To install Fail2ban, The EPEL repository needs to be installed first.

yum install epel-release

Note: It will prompt for several permission Press “y” and “Enter” to continue.

Next, install fail2ban package.

yum install fail2ban

Note:

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