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.

Install Moodle on a Linux VPS

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moodleMoodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. It has several features considered typical of an e-learning platform, in addition to some original innovations like its filtering system. Moodle is a learning management system (LMS) and can be used in many types of environments such as in education, training and development, and business settings.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to install Moodle on a Linux VPS.

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How to install LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB & PHP-FPM) on a CentOS 7 VPS

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Nginx-logoThe following article will walk you through the steps on how to install LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB & PHP-FPM) on one of our CentOS 7 Linux Virtual Servers.

If instead, you are looking for how to set-up LAMP, then please refer to our guide on how to install LAMP (Linux Apache, MariaDB & PHP) on a CentOS 7 VPS

What is LEMP?

A LEMP stack is a synonym of LEMP server or LEMP web server. It refers to a set-up which includes Linux, Nginx, MariaDB (MySQL) and PHP.

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How to install LAMP and run osTicket on CentOS 6

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how-to-install-lamp-and-run-osticket-on-a-centos-6-vpsIn the following tutorial we are going to show you how you can install and configure LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) on your CentOS 6 VPS and run your own, support ticketing system powered by osTicket.

What is osTicket?

It is an open source support ticketing system. It seamlessly routes inquiries created via email, web-forms and phone calls into a simple, easy-to-use, multi-user, web-based customer support platform.

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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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