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.

macos

How to record the screen on macOS

This post will inform you about keyboard shortcut to record screen on macOS Mojave and above.

linux

Top 5 books for Linux System Administrators

Here you will find a list of my top 5 books about system administration that I recommend to read.

macos

How to Install Homebrew on macOS Catalina

Homebrew is the package manager for MacOS. It's the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with macOS. It allows you to download and install software like PHP, Git, Node, MongoDB, MySQL via the command-line on MacOS.

cli

How to filter out comments out of the config file with grep

grep is one of the most important text processing utilities that you will ever use. At some point you in your Linux system administration career you will need to touch grep tool.

nginx

How to Compile NGINX From Source on Ubuntu 18.04 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.

cli

Doing more with less on the Linux command line

Linux is all about working with text files. There are so many utilities to work with text files and they are all somehow relevant. They all have advantages and disadvantages. The most commonly used text tools are more and less.