Building a secure web server with CentOS 5, Troubleshooting
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Troubleshooting Problems with Sendmail When setting up my first Linux web server it was actually sendmail that caused me the most trouble. If you get the following errors:...
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Troubleshooting Part 3: Adding websites In the following steps, we will base our configuration on a fictitious company called Happy Burger who has already registered the...
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Troubleshooting Part 2: Configuring the Server Configuring CentOS Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network with hostnames Install Packages Example of /etc/hosts: # Do not...
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Troubleshooting Introduction This is an updated version of my original LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and Perl/PHP) guide that was based on CentOS 4. Now updated and tweaked for...
View ArticleHow to script your own dynamic DNS on CentOS with Linode API
You know the story… you don’t have a static IP address for your internet connection so you use dynamic DNS, except a certain dynamic DNS company are no longer offering this for free. Well, an...
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Shellshock Vulnerability and Potential Exploitation (not another blog post on...
As tempting as it is, I have no intention of jumping on the ‘Shellshock’ band wagon and writing a vague post on the subject. However, I do find this recent bash exploit interesting and worthy of...
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Essential Linux Skills with CentOS 7 – Managing Services with systemd
This is the first of two Essential Linux Skills for CentOS blogs (see part 2). For many years I’ve become used to using service and chkconfig commands to manage services with RHEL (RedHat Enterprise...
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Essential Linux Skills with CentOS 7 – Secure Firewall with iptables
Following the theme for ELS (Essential Linux Skills) with CentOS 7 (see part 1), today I want to share what I consider to the the most important topic of the lot. Firewalls. Securing your Linux host...
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Building a Secure WordPress server with LAMP on CentOS 7 and SELinux
I’ve been maintaining my own web server for this WordPress blog for several years now, dating back to 2005 when I first starting using CentOS 4 to run my website. Those were the days I switched from...
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Free eBook: Building a Secure WordPress Server (LAMP) with CentOS 7
After writing a series of blog posts and guides on CentOS for several years now, as part of my Essential Linux Skills with CentOS 7 series, I have decided to publish a free eBook covering the complete...
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