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 Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache

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In this article, we will show you how to install the Let’s Encrypt client on your Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, issue an SSL certificate for your domain, and configure it with the Apache webserver.

Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority organization (CA) that allows anyone to obtain a free SSL certificate with simple and automated commands. In this tutorial, we will use a tool called certbot, which is an official part of EFF’s effort to encrypt the entire Internet. Thanks to this convenient tool, setting up an SSL certificate to protect your website’s visitors and improve your website’s security has never been easier. All SSL certificates provided by Let’s Encrypt can be used for production/commercial purposes without any costs or fees. Let’s begin with the installation and setup.

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How to Install a Mail Server with PostfixAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04

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In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the process of setting up a mail server with Postfix, Dovecot, Postfixadmin and MariaDB on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS. But first, what is PostfixAdmin?

PostfixAdmin is an open-source web-based application written in PHP that’s used to create virtual domains and email accounts for a Postfix mail server. Using PostfixAdmin, we can manage mailboxes & aliases, set quotas, configure vacation/out-of-the-office messages, and more. Plus, the web-based interface gives you the user-friendliness of a browser window with a UI.

PostfixAdmin allows us to use virtual email addresses and virtual mailboxes, so we do not need to create a new system user account for each email address. Considering all of these details, PostfixAdmin is a versatile tool and can be used for almost all of your mailing needs. This tutorial goes quite in-depth and may take some time to configure everything properly. Let’s get started with the installation steps.

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How to Use Puppet Modules to Create a LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 20.04

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Puppet is a powerful open-source configuration management tool that can be used to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain a server while accessing it remotely. Puppet is written in Ruby and helps you to deploy and manage a single server – all the way up to thousands of physical and virtual servers – all from a central location.

Puppet modules are collections of manifest files and data that allow Puppet to load and find classes, facts, functions, defined types, and tasks. With Puppet modules, you can install and update packages, create files and directories, and/or make any configuration changes quickly and easily. It aims to perform and automate almost any task, such as launching a LAMP environment, setting up virtual hosts, etc.

In this tutorial, we will show how to create a LAMP module to deploy a LAMP stack on the Puppet agent machine, both of which are Ubuntu 20.04 VPSes. Let’s begin.

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How to Install Flectra on Ubuntu 20.04 with Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

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Flectra is a free and open-source CRM and ERP software that provides a lot of flexibility and customization that lets you meet the unique needs of your business.

Flectra is built using the Python programming language and PostgreSQL as its database backend. This software aims to help almost everyone, whether it’s a small startup or a large corporation. Flectra has a simple and user-friendly interface and a modular design that enables you to add or remove tools to make it work the way you need it to.

Flectra is a fork of Odoo Community and its main goal was to implement many features from Odoo Enterprise while still keeping it open for everyone to use.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Flectra on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS using Nginx as a reverse proxy. The reverse proxy will allow you to access your Flectra instance from a domain name while also using the default port number. Let’s get started.

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How to Install Flectra on CentOS 8 with Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

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Flectra is an open-source, powerful and customizable business management tool that helps you grow your business through its powerful modular design covering all essential aspects of most businesses.

Flectra integrates the capabilities of CRM and ERP systems into a single package. Flectra helps you modify and adapt your system to meet the unique needs of your business. This makes it the ultimate business app suite that gives you a scalable business management platform which provides you with all the freedom to make the software work for you and your business setup.

Flectra offers several features that cover almost every use case, including e-Commerce, Accounting, Sales Management, Websites, Marketing, Inventory Management, MRP, Reporting, Timesheets, and lots more.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Flectra on a CentOS 8 VPS using Nginx as a reverse proxy.

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How to Install Open Classifieds on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Open Classifieds on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Open Classifieds is a free, open-source, and powerful web application that can be used to create classifieds, advertisements, and listings sites, all in just a few minutes. It is simple, easy to use, secure, SEO-friendly and easy to administrate.

Open Classifieds also provides a beautiful web-based admin interface that helps you manage your website easily and effectively. It comes with many features, including SEO-friendly optimization, multi-language support, friendly URLs, robots.txt support, custom fields, social login, and lots more. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install WordPress with LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 20.04

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How to Install WordPress with LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WordPress on Ubuntu 20.04. We will also show you how to install and configure a fully functional LAMP stack, including the installation of the Apache web server, MySQL database server, and PHP 7.4.

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WordPress is one of the world’s most popular, if not the world’s most popular content management system (CMS). It is a free and open-source platform built entirely in PHP – it’s used by millions of people for running blogs, business websites, e-commerce stores, and much more. With features such as in-depth theming, thousands of plug-ins, and a huge community, WordPress is probably the most user-friendly CMS you can choose for building your website. The installation is very simple – all you need to do is closely follow the steps in this tutorial and you will have your WordPress website up and running in no time.

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How to Create a Backup of MySQL Databases Using mysqldump on Ubuntu 20.04

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a backup of MySQL databases on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, and create a backup of the entire /var/lib/mysql directory.

We will create the backup of the databases using MySQL’s command, aptly named mysqldump. After that we will then show you how to perform a backup of the /var/lib/mysql directory where MySQL have been located. Performing regular backups of your database and database server is vital to protecting the data that you have on your server. This way, in case something goes wrong on your Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, or if MySQL breaks for some reason (incompatibilities or otherwise), you’ll have a safe backup that you can revert to and prevent the loss of your precious data.

Once you create a backup of MySQL databases and save them on your server or on a remote location, you can then always be able to restore the databases later from this backup, if needed. Creating a backup of MySQL database is essential for any website owner, and it should be done on a regular basis. Just follow the simple steps in this tutorial and your data will be redundant in no time. Let’s begin.

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