Jeff Wilson

An experienced Linux veteran with many years of experience. Helping other Linux admins with frequent Linux and business-related blog posts on the RoseHosting blog. Techie by choice. Loving nature and travel. Happily married and father of two lovely children.

How to install LAMP on CentOS 7

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How to install LAMP on CentOS 7

We’ll show you how to install LAMP on CentOS 7. LAMP is actually an acronym for a web services solution stack consisting of Linux, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL or MariaDB database engines, and the PHP, Perl or Python programming language. All components are free and open-source software, and the combination is suitable for building dynamic web pages.

Requirements?

We are using our SSD 1 VPS hosting plan for this set-up, which should be more than enough to run LAMP and host multiple dynamic websites using virtual host directives.

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How to install Cacti network monitoring tool on a Centos VPS

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cactiCacti is an open source web based network and system monitoring solution with a completely PHP driven frontend. It is used by IT businesses and stores all of the necessary information about bandwidth, hard disk usage, CPU usage, load average, RAM statistics etc in a MySQL database. Cacti creates graphs and populates them with data. It offers SNMP support, 3rd party templates and plugins and has built in user authentications and user permission features.

This blog article will guide you through the installation of Cacti on a Centos VPS.

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Install Rainloop Webmail on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

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Untitled-1In this post, we will show you how to install Rainloop Webmail on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB. Rainloop Webmail is a simple, modern and fast web-based email client, written in PHP. Some of the features of the application includes: modern user interface, support of IMAP and SMTP protocols, keyboard shortcuts and autocompletion.
This should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04.

 

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5 Linux Network Troubleshooting and Configuration Commands

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Linux Network Troubleshooting and Configuration CommandsComputers are usually connected in networks which are groups of computer systems and other computing hardware devices that are linked together through communication channels so they can facilitate communication and resource-sharing among a wide range of users.

This article explains some of the most frequently used network configuration and troubleshooting commands in Linux. They are various tools which can be useful when networking with other computers both within the local network and across the Internet, obtaining more information about other computers. All these commands should be entered at the command prompt in your Linux VPS and you must press the ENTER button to execute the desired command. Please note that all Linux commands are case sensitive.

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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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