Category: Linux

How to Set Up a VPN and RDP on Local IPs in CentOS 7

For IT professionals or those dabbling in network administration, the ability to establish secure connections between remote systems is a must. This blog post will guide you through the steps...

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Root Password Recovery for RHEL, CentOS 7 Linux

One of our client recently stumbled upon with a query that he forgot the root password and can’t loose any data even if he reinstall OS to gain access again....

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How To Setup Virtualisation With KVM On A CentOS (SolusVM Slave)

Steps To Setup: Part 1 – Disk Setup Fdisk is the most commonly used command to check the partitions on a disk. The fdisk command can display the partitions and...

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Adding Secondary IP Addresses (CentOS/RHEL)

There are plenty of reasons you would need to add secondary IP addresss (and everyone agrees that SEO is not one of them). Getting a secondary IP address is a...

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Add GNOME to a CentOS Minimal Install

Introduction In most instances, the Linux servers I setup are used to host the Oracle database software and only require using the Command-Line Interface (CLI) for the OS. This is...

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Resetting Root Password Using Rescue Mode

It’s been a million dollar question for anyone who is stuck and don’t remember the root password, If you are not able to reset the password for your Linux Server then you will...

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How To Increase Page Load Speed with Apache KeepAlive

The KeepAlive directive for Apache allows a single request to download multiple files. So on a typical page load, the client may need to download HTML, CSS, JS, and images....

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How To Increase Page Load Speed with Apache mod_deflate

Apache’s mod_deflate is an Apache module that will compress output from your server before it is sent to the client. If you have newer version of Apache the mod_deflate module...

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How To Set Up mod_security with Apache on Debian/Ubuntu

Installing mod_security Modsecurity is available in the Debian/Ubuntu repository: apt-get install libapache2-modsecurity Verify if the mod_security module was loaded. apachectl -M | grep --color security You should see a module...

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How To Use MySQL Query Profiling

What is the MySQL slow query log? The MySQL slow query log is a log that MySQL sends slow, potentially problematic queries to. This logging functionality comes with MySQL but...

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