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  • How I took my name servers offline by adding a new hostname

    Now I think I know what happened. I knew dashes (“-“) were allowed in hostnames, and just used underscores for some reason. Ooops. I named the jail with underscores, and just carried on to the DNS.

  • How to check your internet network speed on Ubuntu

    If you’re an Ubuntu user and you’re concerned if your network speed is slow, you’ll need to test its performance. There are many ways you can check your network speed on Ubuntu. In this guide, we’ll show you how to do it.

  • How to Install PHP ImageMagick Extension on Ubuntu 20.04

    Imagick (ImageMagick extension) is a PHP extension used to modify the content images using the ImageMagick API. Many popular PHP applications such as WordPress use it for image optimization.

    In this tutorial, we learn how to install the PHP ImageMagick extension on Ubuntu 20.04. Imagick supports PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.

  • How to load WP Rocket Cache with WordPress into RAM with TMPFS

    WP Rocket is one of the most highly regarded WordPress caching plugins on the market. WP Rocket cache stores all the website pages as HTML files, reducing the need for WordPress to load first, then send queries to the WordPress database to find out themes, plugins, and content to load, which can be slow and also quite taxing on the server leading to increase higher loads.

    Using any caching system will give immediate benefit and improve times compared to not using a cache system in most situations, however taking it one step further is to use caching in RAM, especially for highly trafficable sites using traditional file caching systems can not be as effective with load times and speed even with SSDs, minus the large read and writes that shortens the life of the hard drive.

  • How To Install GitLab on AlmaLinux 8 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GitLab on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, GitLab is a Git-based fully integrated platform created specifically for software development teams. it has native Git’s functionalities and more powerful features in addition to enhancing your workflow. Users can use this tool as an alternative to Github and they can simply install the GitLab CE server and enjoy the full advantages of its useful features including code reviews, wikis, issue tracking, and activity feeds.

    This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the GitLab CE (Community Edition) on AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for Rocky Linux.

  • Learn ps command in Linux to display processes Guide for beginners 2021

    AS you know Linux is multitasking and multiuser systems, you can run multiple precesses processes at the same time without interfering with each other.

    Process: In Linux, a running instance of a program is called process. We can say the process is a fundamental concept of the Linux OS. In other words, You can say “A process is an executing instance of a program and carry out different tasks within the operating system”.

    Occasionally, when you are working on a Linux machine, you can find out easily by using ps command in Linux “what processes are currently running on your machine”.

    You can use, multiple commands to view process, for example, ps command, top command, and pstree command.

  • How to Upgrade Apache to Latest Version on Ubuntu 20.04 - LinuxCapable

    Apache, also known as Apache HTTP server, is one of the most widely used web server applications globally for the past few decades. Apache comes on Ubuntu 20.04 default repository; however, most LTS repositories are often not updated to the latest version compared to what is current from the developer. In this case, Apache can miss out on new features and improvements and non-security-related bug fixes.

    In the following tutorial, you will learn how to Upgrade the Apache webserver on Ubuntu 20.04.

  • How to Install Tor Browser on Rocky Linux 8 - LinuxCapable

    Tor, also known as The Onion Router, is open-source, free software that enables anonymous communication when using online services such as web surfing. The Tor network directs the Internet traffic through a free worldwide volunteer overlay network with over six thousand relays and continues to grow. Many users want to find more ways to keep their information and activities anonymous or at least as private as possible, which has led to Tor Browser growing quite popular in recent years as it conceals a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis.

    The Tor network is intended to protect the personal privacy of users and their freedom and ability from conducting communication without having their activities monitored, and data were taken without their consent and used to sum it up.

  • How to Install ModSecurity with Nginx on Rocky Linux 8 - LinuxCapable

    ModSecurity or often referred to as Modsec is a free, open-source web application firewall (WAF). ModSecurity was created as a module for the Apache HTTP Server. However, since its early days, the WAF has grown and now covers an array of HyperText Transfer Protocol request and response filtering capabilities for various platforms such as Microsoft IIS, Nginx, and of course, Apache.

  • Create Elementary OS 6 bootable USB drive using Rufus - Linux Shout

    If you are using Windows 7, 10, or 11 and want to create an Elementary OS 6 Linux bootable USB drive using Rufus then here is the tutorial for you.

    Creating a bootable USB drive is not a Sisyphean task, we can easily do that using any suitable software; that can transfer your ISO files to a USB stick and with which it can also be booted at the same time. Well for Windows OS, there is a couple of good software for creating a bootable pen drive, however, Rufus is the simple and popular one. The best thing, it is portable hence doesn’t need to be installed on the OS at all.

    Although we already have done a tutorial on how to create a bootable USB drive of Elementary OS 6 using open source BalenaEtcher. If you want, can look at it. Whereas, existing Rufus users can refer to this article.

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today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

    Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.

  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

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  • Self-host a Ghost Blog With Traefik

    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.