TLS

Install Wildcard Certificate from Let's Encrypt (Ubuntu 20.04 + Nginx + Vultr)

In March 2018 Let's Encrypt added support for wildcard certificates. Wildcard certificates let you secure all first-level subdomains of a domain with a single certificate. Wildcard certificates are only obtainable through ACMEv2, which is an updated version of the ACME protocol.

ubuntu

How to Install Ghost CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Ghost is a very popular modern open source publishing platform that can be used as a headless Node.js CMS.

nginx

How to Compile Nginx From Source on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is an open-source web server software designed with high concurrency in mind, that can be used as HTTP/HTTPS server, reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, software load balancer, TLS terminator, caching server, etc...

How to Install Vanilla Forum on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Vanilla is Open Source Community Forum Software written in PHP. This guide will walk you through the Vanilla installation process on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) server instance using PHP, MySQL as a database, and Nginx as a web server.

freebsd

How to Install WordPress on FreeBSD 12 (FEMP Stack)

WordPress is an open source web software application that you can use to create and maintain a modern website. At the time of writing, more than 30% of all websites run on WordPress

macos

How to Install Terraform on macOS Catalina

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure automation command-line tool created by HashiCorp written in the Go programming language. Terraform is very easy to install and can run on your desktop or a remote server.

TLS

How to Enable TLS 1.3 in Nginx on CentOS 8

TLS 1.3 is a version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that was published in 2018 as a proposed standard in RFC 8446. It offers security and performance improvements over its predecessors. TLS 1.3 now removes obsolete and insecure features from TLS 1.2.

Getting Started with Terraform on Apple's macOS

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure automation tool created by HashiCorp written in the Go programming language.

apache

How to Enable TLS 1.3 in Apache on Ubuntu 18.04

TLS 1.3 is a version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that was published in 2018 as a proposed standard in RFC 8446. It offers security and performance improvements over its predecessors.

centos

How to Install ExpressionEngine CMS on CentOS 8

ExpressionEngine is a feature-rich, mature, flexible, secure, free and open-source content management system (CMS) with lots of add-ons that extend its capabilities. CMS is written in PHP programming language. Its source code is hosted on Github.

centos

How to Install Flarum Forum on CentOS 8

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free.

freebsd

How To Install Nginx, MySQL and PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12

A FEMP stack, which is comparable to a LEMP stack on Linux, is a collection of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a FreeBSD server to host dynamic websites and web applications.

TLS

Using acme.sh on FreeBSD 12

Acme.sh is a simple, powerful and easy to use ACME protocol client written purely in Shell (Unix shell) language, compatible with bash, dash, and sh shells.

HTTP2

HTTP/2 (h2) Quick Start Theory

HTTP/2 (h2) is now a norm. It's here for almost 5 years and you are experiencing it on a daily basis. Open a modern browser (e.g., Edge, Safari, Firefox, Chrome) and point it at a major website like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, and voila! you are using h2.

redhat

How to Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on VMware Fusion 11

In this tutorial you'll learn to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on VMware Fusion 11 hypervisor.

HTTP2

Enable HTTP/2 in Nginx (Ubuntu version)

HTTP/2 is the new version of now obsolete HTTP/1.1 protocol which was standardized way back in 1999. A lot has changed on the web since then. Our applications are more complex than they were back than, so to cope with that, change in the underlying transport protocol was necessary.

ghost

How to update Ghost blog

So, it is time to update your Ghost blog to the latest version? Here are the steps you need to take to do it the right way. First, make a

nginx

How to Enable Brotli in Nginx

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods.

linux

Setting the Command Search Path

$PATH is an environment variable that sets command search directories. Usually, Linux users add ~/bin directory to $PATH. This article will show you a thing or two about it.

ubuntu

How to Install Flarum Forum on Ubuntu 18.04

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free. This tutorial will walk you through the Flarum installation process on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using PHP, MySQL as a database, and Nginx as a web server.

nginx

How to Compile Nginx From Source on CentOS 8

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is an open-source web server software designed with high concurrency in mind, that can be used as HTTP/HTTPS server, reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, software load balancer, TLS terminator, caching server...

cli

3 ways to create a file on Linux via command line

As always with the Linux command line, there are multiple ways to achieve the same thing. The same is with file creation. This post will show you a few of them.

TLS

How to Enable TLS 1.3 in Apache on CentOS 8

TLS 1.3 is a version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that was published in 2018 as a proposed standard in RFC 8446. It offers security and performance improvements over its predecessors.

freebsd

How to Install PHP 7.4 on FreeBSD 12

This tutorial will show you how to install PHP 7.4 on FreeBSD 12.1. PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development. FreeBSD has an awesome packaging team and most packages are kept up to date with the latest releases of the software. Hence the installation is simple.

cli

How to number lines of a file on the command line

To display line numbers of some file on Linux command-line you can use nl command, which stands for number lines.