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 Joomla Websites

How to Secure Joomla Websites

We’ll show you, How to secure Joomla websites. Joomla is a very popular content management system used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and this is one of the main reasons why many hackers often try to find a way to hack Joomla based websites. Listed below are simple, yet powerful methods and practices to secure and protect a Joomla based website running on a Linux VPS from being compromised:

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OpenVPN setup script for Debian and Ubuntu

openvpnOpenVPN is a free and open-source software application that can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet.  OpenVPN is bound to the OpenSSL library and derives much of its crypto capabilities from it.

Today we will share a script you can use to install and configure OpenVPN on an Ubuntu VPS. The script is pretty much self-explanatory.

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How to Install Bolt CMS on Ubuntu

How to Install Bolt CMS on Ubuntu

In this blog post we will show you how to install Bolt CMS on Ubuntu, with Nginx and MariaDB. Bolt is a lightweight CMS, written in PHP and it’s built upon the Silex framework. This tutorial should work on other Linux VPS systems as well, but was tested and written for Ubuntu. Installing Bolt CMS on Ubuntu  is an easy task if you carefully follow the steps bellow.

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How to install ownCloud 6 on a Linux Virtual Server

owncloud 6OwnCloud is free and open source file sharing and collaboration software which provides access to your files through a web interface or WebDAV.

This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Linux virtual server.

At the time of writing this tutorial, ownCloud 6.0.2 is the latest stable version available and it requires:

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