In today’s article we will cover the steps on how to install the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) stack on a CentOS 6 based VPS.
LAMP represents a full featured stack containing the most popular web server known as Apache, the most popular database server MySQL and the most popular open-source web programming language known as PHP.
We’ll show you, how to Install ownCloud on CentOS 6. OwnCloud is an open-source cloud application which can be used to set up your own cloud server for file-sharing, calendar, contacts, bookmarks, music-streaming, and a lot more. For more info about this application visit the ownCloud website. Installing ownCloud on CentOS 6, is easy task and should take less then 10 minutes to complete.
This how-to will show you how to install Tomcat 7.x and JDK 7.x (Java Development Kit) on a CentOS VPS.
You could get one of our Java Hosting plans and have everything already installed and configured but if you want to do it yourself just follow the tutorial below.
The first thing you will need to do is create a file called .htpasswd (it doesn’t have to be named that way). The following command creates a new .htpasswd file and stores a record in it for user tom.
htpasswd -bc /var/www/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd tom password
To create another user:
htpasswd -b /var/www/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd john password
MySQL has two primary storage engines: MyISAM and InnoDB.
Each has its own performance characteristics and considerations but generally MyISAM is good for read-intensive data and InnoDB is good for transactional data.
What is DenyHosts?
It is a python script intended to be run by GNU/Linux system administrators and users to help thwart SSH server attacks which are also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks. It has the ability to run as a daemon and it can automatically block attackers and prevent them from gaining access to your server.
We’ll show you how to create an Nginx Virtual Host, also known as an Nginx Server Block. In one of our previous tutorials we explained How to install and configure LNMP (Nginx, MySQL and PHP) server on a Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS, now we’re going to look at how to set up a new server block (virtual host) for each new domain.
IMAP or Internet Message Access Protocol is one of the two most commonly used protocols for e-mail retrieval. This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to configure IMAP to use SSL encryption for secure communication on port 993 (by default IMAP uses port 143).