Category: General

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 21.04

Updating the system

We first update the system to make sure that all our installed packages are upto date. Your Ubuntu system can be updated easily with the following command.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

Install Nginx

We will start by installing the Nginx web server. To complete the installation, use the following command.

apt install nginx

Once the installation is complete, … Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to use a GUI on your AlmaLinux server

AlmaLinux is new a CentOS alternative and is often used as an operating system without GUI, but just like CentOS, AlmaLinux supports installing a desktop environment/GUI which you can connect to via VNC or similar software.

This blog article looks into how to install a GNOME desktop environment / GUI on your AlmaLinux server.

To use AlmaLinux in graphical mode, you will … Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Docker on AlmaLinux 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 the applications.

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 --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Output:

[root@vps 

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

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: This will prompt for several permissions, Press “y” and “Enter” to continue.

Set fail2ban to start on boot automatically,

systemctl enable fail2ban

Configuring local file settings.

Jail.conf contains a … Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install LEMP Stack on AlmaLinux 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 command:… Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Convert CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8

In this Article we will learn how to convert an existing CentOS 8 system to AlmaLinux 8. This guide includes the link to the conversion script maintained by the official GitHub repo for AlmaLinux.

AlmaLinux is a binary fork of RedHat Linux Enterprise Linux (RHEL) which is created as an alternative to CentOS. The current AlmaLinux version is based on RHEL 8.3. Almalinux … Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install LAMP Stack on AlmaLinux 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.

Install Apache Web Server

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

Prerequisites:

WordPress requires LAMP stack installed and running

For detailed installation, refer to LAMP Stack on Almalinux 8

Allow firewall HTTP and optionally HTTPS port 80 and 443:

Allow the firewall to HTTP and HTTPS and reload it with following commands

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https

firewall-cmd --reload

Output:

[root@my ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
success
[root@my ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public 

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Ubuntu 20.10 on your KVM VPS

Login to your Panel (https://crownpanel.com/)

To start the installation, First we mount the Ubuntu 20.10 ISO.

To mount the ISO click on CD-ROM and then select the “ubuntu-20.10-live-server-amd64” ISO from the drop-down menu and click on Mount button (It will take 2-3 minutes)

Once the ISO has mounted (Task Log tab will show the status of the task), navigate … Read More