Installing and setting-up JAVA & JBoss 7 Final on CentOS 6

jboss_logoIn the following tutorial we will walk you through the steps of installing and setting up JAVA and JBoss 7 Final using one of our CentOS 6 linux virtual servers.

What is JBoss?

It is an open-source application server developed by RedHat based on the J2EE platform for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, Web applications, Services, Portals and more. The J2EE allows applications to be standardized and modular allowing JAVA to handle many programming aspects when developing an application.

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How to Install LCMP (Cherokee, MySQL and PHP) on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 / Scientific Linux 6

cherokee vpsCherokee is a lightweight, flexible and completely customizable  Web server. Its speed and ease of use makes Cherokee one of the top running alternatives to Apache. Cherokee can be easily be installed using RPM packages or it can be compiled from source. If there is another Web server already installed on your virtual server, it needs to be stopped first.  

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How to secure your SSH using two-step authentication on CentOS 6

secure SSH using two-step authentication on CentOSThere are several things you can do to secure and protect your SSH. One of them is to use Google Authenticator and create a two-factor authentication on your CentOS VPS. Google Authenticator gives you an extra layer of security by generating time based one-time passwords (TOTP) on your smartphone that you must enter along with your username and password in order to login to the server via SSH.

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