Articles by Matt Vas

• Install Debian 9 (Stretch) via PXE Network Boot Server

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux • Comments: 3

  In this tutorial, we’ll guide you on how to install the latest version of Debian 9 server via a PXE server with internet remote HTTP mirror sources offered by Debian archive mirrors. The DHCP server that we’ll use in this tutorial to setup PXE environment will be ISC-DHCP Server and the netboot Debian files will be served on the local network by TFTPD-HPA server.

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• How to Install PrestaShop on Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: apache, debian, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 4

  In this guide, we’ll show you how to install and configure the latest version of Prestashop on Debian 9.1. Prestashop is a free Open Source e-commerce content management platform written in PHP programming language which is often deployed on Linux under Apache/Nginx web servers, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB database management system.

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• How to Install Nagios 4.3.x Monitoring Tool on Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux, monitoring • Comments: 18

  This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the latest version of Nagios Core, currently 4.3.4, from sources in Debian 9.1, codename Stretch. Nagios, also known as Nagios Core, is a free Open Source network monitoring tool actively maintained by its developers, designed to monitor an entire network infrastructure.

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• Install Nginx, MariaDB and PHP (FEMP stack) on FreeBSD 11

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: freebsd, mysql, nginx, php • Comments: 0

  In this tutorial, I will describe the process of installing and configuring the FEMP stack on FreeBSD 11.x. FEMP software stack is an acronym for FreeBSD - Nginx - MySQL (or MariaDB) and PHP.

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• Install Let's Encrypt and Secure Nginx with SSL/TLS in Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux, nginx, security, server, web server • Comments: 9

  This tutorial will show you how to install and secure a Nginx web server on Debian 9 with a TLS certificate issued for free by the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority. Furthermore, we will configure automatic renewal of Lets’ Encrypt TLS certificates using a cron job before the certificates expire.

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• Install a Centralized Log Server with Rsyslog in Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux, monitoring, server • Comments: 4

  In Linux, the rsyslog server can be configured to run a central log manager, in a service-client model fashion, and send log messages over the network via TCP or UDP transport protocols or receive logs from network devices, servers, routers, switches or other systems or embedded devices that generate logs.

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• How to Install Cacti SNMP Monitoring Tool on Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, linux, monitoring • Comments: 16

  Cacti is a web-based network monitoring tool, completely open source, designed to display network and system graphics via RRDtool. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure Cacti network monitoring tool from source to ensure that you get the latest version on Debian 9.

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• Configure WordPress with W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare CDN in LAMP

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: apache, debian, linux, mysql, php • Comments: 4

  This guide will show you how to increase WordPress website load speed with W3 Total Cache Plugin and a CloudFlare CDN free account. In this tutorial, Wordpress CMS system is installed on top of a LAMP stack (Linux + Apache HTTP server + MariaDB RDBMS and PHP) on a Debian 9 server.

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• Deploy WordPress on top of FAMP in FreeBSD 11.1

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: apache, freebsd, mysql, php • Comments: 5

  This guide will show how to install and configure the most popular open source CMS used on the internet, Wordpress, on top of FAMP in FreeBSD 11.x latest release. FAMP is an acronym which describes the following software bundle: FreeBSD 11.1 Unix-like operating system, Apache HTTP server, one of the most popular open-source web server on the internet, MariaDB RDBMS (relational database management system), which is a fork of MySQL database engine, and PHP programming server-side language.

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• How to Clone an Encrypted Disk Image with Clonezilla

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: centos, linux, security • Comments: 1

  In this guide, we’ll discuss how to image or clone the hard drive of a CentOS 7 server used as a DHCP and DNS server in production (DNS and DHCP data don’t change that often on the server). The cloned image will also be encrypted on-fly during the cloning process. A passphrase will be used to encrypt and decrypt the image. In case of losing or forgetting the passphrase, the imaged data will be forever lost.

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