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 phpMyAdmin on CentOS 7

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How to Install phpMyAdmin on CentOS 7

install phpmyadmin centos 7This tutorial explains the process of installing one of the most popular open-source applications for managing MySQL databases – phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a free and open source web-based application written in PHP, used to easily manage MySQL databases through your favorite web browser instead of the MySQL command line interface. phpMyAdmin allows users to create, modify, rename and delete databases, tables or fields, execute SQL commands through the browser, import and export tables to a wide range of formats, create users and modify their privileges, and much more… We are going to install phpMyAdmin on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, MariaDB, and PHP

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How to Install Phabricator on Ubuntu 16.04

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how to install Phabricator on Ubuntu 16.04

In this article we will show you how to install Phabricator on Ubuntu 16.04, with Apache web server, PHP and MySQL. Phabricator is an open source set of tools which help developers to build better software. It includes tools for differential code review, repository hosting and browsing, monitoring tool,  bug tracker, wiki and much more. Phabricator is currently maintained by Phacility, it was originally developed as an internal tool at Facebook. It is available as free software under the Apache License, version 2.

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How to Install Matomo on CentOS 7

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How to Install Matomo on CentOS 7

This tutorial explains the process of installing an open source web analytic application named Matomo (formerly known as Piwik) on a CentOS 7 VPS. Matomo helps you gather and analyze important information about your website visitors. Matomo features tracking of visits, goals, conversion rates, A/B Testing, funnels, heatmaps, downloads, keywords, and many more. Let’s get started with the installation of Matomo on your CentOS 7 server.

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How to Enable GZIP Compression in WordPress

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How to Enable GZIP Compression in WordPress

One of the first solutions to achieve faster load times of your WordPress CMS is to decrease the size of your page.The simplest method to reduce the size of your website, and improve the time to first render of your web pages, is to enable GZIP compression. Enabling GZIP compression on your server can significantly reduce the amount of time to download the requested resource. Today we will show you how to enable GZIP compression on WordPress. 

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How to Password Protect Directories in cPanel

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How to Password Protect Directories in cPanel

Normally, if you create a folder on your site, you can access all the files inside it just by visiting the file’s URL. Sometimes however, you want to password protect directories in cPanel – either you’re testing a new design that you’re not ready to show the world, or it’s a staging area for your site. Or maybe you just want to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive parts your site. Like the “wp-admin” area of WordPress for example.

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How to Automatically Deploy Laravel Applications with Deployer on Ubuntu 16.04

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How to Automatically Deploy Laravel Applications with Deployer on Ubuntu 16.04

Laravel is a popular, open-source PHP web application framework. It has an expressive, elegant syntax and provides tools needed for large, robust applications. Deployer is a modular open-source PHP deployment tool packed with time-saving features and optimizations. It supports deployment of many popular frameworks, including Laravel, Symfony, Zend Framework and CodeIgniter. In this tutorial, we will show you how to deploy a Laravel application with Deployer on Ubuntu 16.04.

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