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Install Octopress on a CentOS 6 VPS

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octopress vpsOctopress is a static blogging framework built on top of Jekyll. In order to start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress all of that is already taken care of. It uses scripts to build static files to be deployed to a server. You can run locally, or even on your server and it will generate an entirely static web site for you. You can even rsync it to where you’re hosting from.

This blog article will guide you through the installation of Octopress on a Centos 6 VPS

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Install Plogger web photo gallery on a CentOS VPS

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ploggerPlogger is a simple yet powerful open-source web photo gallery system for creating, editing and managing online photo galleries. Plogger’s interface is very user-friendly and it is easy to use and integrate with your website. Plogger can run on every server with at least MySQL version 3.23, GD version 1.0, PHP version 4 and a web server (Apache or nginx) installed on it.

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How to install PmWiki on CentOS 6 VPS

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pmwiki-logoPmWiki is a free PHP based wiki system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Its pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an “Edit” link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website without knowing any HTML or CSS, just by using basic editing rules. Pages can be edited publicly or by small groups of authors.

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Speed-up NGINX using ngx_pagespeed on a CentOS 6 VPS

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Speed-up NGINX using ngx_pagespeed in CentOS 6 VPSThe following article will guide you through the steps of compiling and installing Nginx and ngx_pagespeed module on your Linux VPS

Using ngx_pagespeed you can significantly speed-up your websites without needing to tune or change your web-applications.

How is this possible?

ngx_pagespeed runs as a module inside Nginx and rewrites your webpages to make them faster. The rewrite includes minifying CSS and JS (JavaScript), extending cache lifetimes, compressing images and many other web performance best practices.

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How to install phpBB 3 on a CentOS 6 VPS

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320px-Phpbb3-ccw-logoToday’s article will be about installing and configuring phpBB3 on a CentOS 6 VPS. phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board) is one of the most popular free and open-source bulletin boards written in the PHP scripting language and used by millions of people around the world. With phpBB you can easily create your discussion boards and start your own community with just a few clicks of your mouse. phpBB is very customizable and there are a number of templates, languages, style and image packages available for it’s customization.

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How to Install And Integrate DKIM With OpenDKIM And Postfix On a CentOS 6 VPS

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This tutorial is part 5 of the mailserver set-up with virtual users and domains using Postfix and Dovecot series. It goes through the steps of installing and integrating OpenDKIM in Postfix on a CentOS 6 Linux VPS.

After completing this tutorial you will end up having OpenDKIM adding digital signatures to your emails, thus making the mailserver set-up even more robust and professional.

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How to install and integrate SpamAssassin with Postfix on a CentOS 6 VPS

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spamassassinThe following article is part 4 of our mailserver set-up with virtual users and domains using Postfix and Dovecot on a CentOS 6 VPS, followed by part 2 which explains how to install and set-up the Roundcube webmail interface on a linux vps server and then part 3 which is all about how to set-up an SSL encrypted connection in Postfix, Dovecot and Apache using SSL certificates.

In this tutorial we are going to set-up SpamAssassin on one of our CentOS 6 linux virtual servers and integrate it into our Postfix mailserver set-up so it can scan and mark the emails detected as SPAM.

What is SpamAssassin?

It is a program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules.

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