Jeff Wilson, Author at RoseHosting

How to Install Webmin on CentOS 7

June 3, 2022May 2, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install Webmin on CentOS 7. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Linux-based servers. It’s one of the most popular open-source hosting control panels. Webmin is largely based on Perl, running as its own process and web server. It defaults to TCP port 10000 for communicating and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed with additional required Perl Modules. Installing Webmin on CentOS 7 is really an easy task, just follow the steps below.

Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04

December 16, 2022April 27, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

phpMyAdmin is the most popular and most widely used web-based database management tool. It is a free and open-source PHP application, that allows the users to manage single or multiple SQL database servers, locally or on a remote server using a web browser with easy to use graphic user interface. Today, we are going to teach you, how to install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04.

Many developers need to interact and manipulate with their databases, but not all of them are comfortable with SQL commands, and this is where phpMyAdmin comes in handy. You e can easily create, rename, delete and edit databases, tables, or fields, execute SQL commands. You can easily import and export tables, create and modify users, and so on, all via an easy-to-use GUI. Installing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 is an easy task if you carefully follow the steps below.

We have an updated version of this tutorial – How to Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04

How to set up a mail server with PostfixAdmin on CentOS 7

June 3, 2022April 25, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this article, we will show you how to setup and configure a mail server with PostfixAdmin, Postfix, Dovecot and SQLite on a CentOS VPS. PostfixAdmin is a PHP-based web front-end that allows you to manage virtual domains and users for a Postfix mail transport agent. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for a CentOS 7 VPS.

If you use Ubuntu, follow our tutorial to set up Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, SQLite and PostfixAdmin on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with Nginx and PHP 7.0

Secure SSH using two-factor authentication on Ubuntu 16.04

June 3, 2022April 20, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will describe the necessary steps to configure two-factor authentication (2FA) using Google authenticator on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. This application includes implementations of one-time passcode generators for several mobile platforms. This method adds another layer of protection to your server adding an extra step to the basic login procedure.

How to Set Up a Firewall with iptables on Ubuntu and CentOS

June 3, 2022April 18, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to set up a firewall with iptables on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu or CentOS as an operating system. Iptables is an administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT and it is used to set up and manage the tables of IPv4 packet filter rules in the Linux kernel.

Properly configuring and setting up a firewall is one of the most important and crucial things you need to do to secure your server.

How to Create Users and Manage Their Sudo Privileges on Ubuntu

June 3, 2022April 13, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

We will show you How to Create Users and Manage Their Sudo Privileges on Ubuntu. The sudo command allows normal users to run programs which are only available to the root user. This tutorial will show you the simplest way to create a new user with sudo access on Ubuntu, without modifying your server’s sudoers file.

How to install Nextcloud 11 on CentOS 7

June 3, 2022April 11, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you How to install Nextcloud 11 on CentOS 7. Nextcloud is an open source software for creating and using file hosting services. It has a lot of extra Calendar, Sync and Contacts features, apart from their file hosting features. It is a great free alternative to some popular services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc. Installing Nextcloud 11 on CentOS 7 is an easy task if you carefully follow the steps bellow.

How to Create Bash Aliases

June 3, 2022April 6, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create bash aliases on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system. In general, a Bash alias is simply a keyboard shortcut, an abbreviation, a means of avoiding typing a long command line command sequence. Follow the tutorial below and you should be able to create bash aliases in few minutes.