Just recently it was necessery to load up a tun kernel module on few CentOS Linux servers. I’m using Debian on daily basis, and everybody that had even little of experience with Debian should already be aware about the existence of the handy: /etc/modules file. On Debian to enable a certain kernel module to load [...]
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How to auto restart CentOS Linux server with software watchdog (softdog) to reduce server downtime
February 5th, 2012 
Frank BorosIf you are in charge of dozen of Linux servers these days and therefore required to restart many of the servers with a support ticket (because many of the Data Centers where the servers are co-located does not have a web interface or IPKVM connected to the server for that purpose). Therefore the server restart [...]
Step by Step Install and Configure Squid Proxy Server on CentOS 6.2 / RHEL 6
January 31st, 2012 Frank BorosThis tutorial will show you steps by step how to install and configure a Squid 3 Proxy Server on CentOS6.2 / RHEL 6. Squid service plays two main roles which mainly act as a caching proxy server between the user and the web. Second role, squid also regularly used as a content accelerator, or reverse [...]
How to Install Nginx with HTTPS support on CentOS
January 30th, 2012 Frank BorosNginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Igor Sysoev started development of Nginx in 2002, with the first public release in 2004. Nginx now hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of all domains worldwide. As Netcraft predicted, Nginx now surpasses Microsoft IIS as the second most [...]
Installing Monit and Restart Apache Automatically on CentOS
January 29th, 2012 Frank BorosMonit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. You can use Monit to monitor daemon processes or similar programs running on localhost. Monit is particular useful for [...]
How to Install & Configure Vsftpd on RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/Fedora
January 29th, 2012 Frank BorosHow to Install and Configure Vsftpd Ftp Server on RHEL 6/ CentOS 6.2/ Ubuntu 11.10/ Fedora /Debian. VSftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon) is an FTP server for Linux distributions. Vsftpd is the default FTP server is the Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, NimbleX Linux distributions. It is not just secure as the name suggests but also [...]
Installing WordPress/Joomla/Drupal on CentOS 6.2 (netinstall)
January 28th, 2012 Frank BorosStep by Step how to install WordPress/Joomla/Drupal on CentOS 6.2 (netinstall). I’ve been looking at using a CMS for a while as an alternative to designing websites from scratch. I finally have had a reason to use one (long story) but the short end of it is that it needs to run on Linux. There [...]
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No Comments »Configure Linux To Accept Remote Desktop Connections Over SSH
January 22nd, 2012 Frank BorosRecently I needed to configure a solution for remote desktop on a Linux server. I decided to give XRDP a shot which uses TigerVNC Server by forwarding the standard RDP port of 3389 to a port VNC is listening on. The end result is to set up a SSH tunnel that forwards local port 3389 [...]
