Install Magento on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS and Enable Redis as Back End Cache

magento vpsMagento Community Edition is a flexible and robust open source content management system for e-commerce web sites. In this tutorial we will show you how to install Magento and configure Redis (an open source advanced key-value cache and store) for back end caching on an Ubuntu VPS.

Download the latest version of Magento from www.magentocommerce.com, extract it and move the Magento installation to the ‘/var/www/html/magento/’ directory on your VPS:

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Install and run DokuWiki the most versatile Wiki on a CentOS 7 VPS

Install and run DokuWiki the most versatile Wiki on a CentOS 7 VPSIn the following article, we’ll explain how you can install and run DokuWiki on a CentOS 7 server. We support DokuWiki running on all our SSD VPS hosting plans and with our DokuWiki hosting stack, you’ll get DokuWiki pre-loaded on your virtual server, making your wiki up and running in no-time.

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What is DokuWiki?

DokuWiki is considered to be the most versatile open source Wiki software application which is proven to meet your demanding wiki needs.

DokuWiki does not require a database and it’s extremely simple and easy to use. Check out DokuWiki features to learn more.

System Requirements?

  • Webserver such as Apache, Nginx etc..
  • PHP server version 5.2 or later
  • PHP-GD / Image Magick library

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Install and configure Linux Malware Detect on a CentOS VPS

maldetLinux Malware Detect or just Maldet is free and open source malware scanner for Linux machines. It scans the machine for known malwares and quarantine suspicious files or simply alert you for their presence.  It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and generates signatures for detection. In addition, threat data is also derived from user submissions with the LMD checkout feature and from malware community resources.

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Install HumHub on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB

humhubIn this guide we will show you how install HumHub on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB. HumHub is a flexible open source social network application written in PHP on top of the Yii framework. HumHub has a bunch of great features such sharing documents and files, responsive design, user spaces, activity stream and many more. This should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

 

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Install mod_security with the OWASP core rule set on a CentOS VPS

mod-security-raise-up-your-apache-webserver-security-and-protect-against-cross-site-scripting-javascript-hacks-and-virusesMod_Security is free and open source web application firewall for Apache and Nginx. It is very useful for protecting your web server from various attacks by blocking most of the known exploits using regular expressions and rule sets. Mod_security can detect attacks by monitoring and analyzing the HTTP traffic in real time. In this blog tutorial we will guide you through the process of installing mod_security with the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) core rule set on a CentOS VPS from source.

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How to Install WordPress on CentOS 7

Install WordPress on CentOS 7

We will show you, how to install WordPress on Centos 7, using Apache web-server and MySQL database. WordPress is a web software (content management system) you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. An open source CMS, WordPress is often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. Currently it is the most popular of the blogging platforms available. Installing WordPress on CentOS 7 is an easy task if you carefully follow our tutorial below.

Before you start the installation, please make sure that you have LAMP stack installed on your server. If not, follow our excellent tutorial about installing LAMP (Linux Apache, MariaDB & PHP) on CentOS 7.

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