Category: General

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at GNOME GUI on Rocky Linux 8

To use Rocky Linux 8 in graphical mode, you will need to install GNOME package on the system to enable GUI. We will go through the steps required to install GNOME GUI.

Check the available package groups for Rocky Linux 8.

yum group list

Output:

[root@server ~]# yum group list
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:49 ago on Fri 14 May 2021 10:00:46 AM EDT.
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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux 8

OwnCloud is an open source project that can be installed on your server to securely store and access files. Also allows you to share and collaborate contents that lets teams work on data easily from anywhere, on any device.

Find out more about OwnCloud.

Prerequisites

Before we begin with installing ownCloud, you would need either a LAMP or LEMP Stack installed and … Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Node.js on Rocky Linux 8

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment and it is primarily used for non-blocking, event-driven servers, due to its single-threaded nature. It’s used for traditional websites and back-end API services but was designed with real-time, push-based architectures. It offers users the ability to write websites in JavaScript whose code executes on the server instead of a client’s browser.

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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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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
Last metadata expiration check: 0:50:18 ago on Thu 13 May 2021 

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

Prerequisites:

WordPress requires LAMP stack installed and running

For detailed installation, refer to LAMP Stack on Rocky Linux 8

Creating the new database:

Log into MySQL with the following command,

mysql -u root -p

First, we’ll create a new database,

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

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

LEMP is a combination of free, open source software. The acronym LEMP refers to the first letters of Linux (Operating system), Nginx Server, MySQL (database software), and PHP, PERL or Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.

Install Nginx Web Server

First, we will start by installing the Nginx web server. To complete the installation, use the following … Read More

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

A LAMP stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents the Linux operating system, with the Apache web server. The site data is stored in a MySQL database, and dynamic content is processed by PHP.

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