Introduction
Jekyll is Ruby based, free and easy to use site generator, designed for creating static blogs, but it can be also used for creating all types of static websites as well, without using a database. Jekyll works by processing plain text files in Markdown and Textfile or Liquid templates and generating static website. This kind of websites have many advantages over the dynamic sites, such as security, speed and flexibility. Websites generated with Jekyll can be hosted on any type of web server or GitHub. In this tutorial we will cover the installation of Jekyll on a CentOS 7 VPS.
In this article, we will guide you through the steps of installing Tomcat 9 on CentOS 7. Apache Tomcat is the most popular and widely used Java application server. It is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It executes Java servlets and renders Web pages that include Java Server Page coding. Tomcat has been downloaded more than 10 millions times and it powers mission-critical sites like Wal-Mart, The Weather Channel and much more. Installing Apache Tomcat 9 on CentOS 7 is a fairly easy task, and it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes for Tomcat 9 to be installed on your CentOS 7 based virtual server.
In today’s tutorial, we will show you how to change the root password in Linux. The root account on a Linux machine is the highest authority account on the system. It has control over everything, can delete and modify anything, and has permission to run any program. Simply put, the root account can do anything that the system supports. Typically, casual users never need to use the root account, while more experienced users need the root account more often, especially if they spend a large amount of their time at a terminal. So, even if you don’t use the root account much, it helps to put a more secure password so that malicious users don’t log into the root account and wreak havoc on your system.
We will show you how to install MariaDB on CentOS 7. MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL. MariaDB is a free and open source database software, widely used ranging from websites to banking software. It is an improved, drop-in replacement for MySQL. It is one of the most popular database servers in the world, developed after the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle Inc. to stay free and open source. Installing MariaDB on CentOS 7 is an easy task, just carefully follow the steps of this tutorial and should have MariaDB installed on CentOS 7, in less than 10 minutes. Let’s get started!