What is Nginx? Nginx is a free, open-source, high performance web server. It cache’s static content such as images and html files and retrieves them without having to access Apache, thus improving speed, memory usage, and processor overhead. Installing Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To install Nginx on your
Attention, A recent exploit known as Dirty Cow has been discovered that affects Linux servers. You can find information regarding this exploit at; https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661 https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/linux-kernel-exploit.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344 At this time if you have KernelCare your server should already be patched. To check that kernelcare has patched your server you can run
What is IIS? IIS, or Internet Information Service, is a web server designed to work with the Windows operating system. Using HTTP protocol, it helps direct user requests online to their target’s specific TCP ports. Installing IIS Since IIS is a feature integrated into Windows, installing it is very
LiteSpeed Web Server LiteSpeed Web Server is the leading high-performance, high-scalability web server from LiteSpeed technologies. It can be used to replace an existing Apache server without changing any other programs or operating system details. Best of all, it can be integrated without breaking anything. As such, LiteSpeed Web Server
In this guide, we’ll cover how to change a password in Linux using the passwd command followed by the name of the desired user. This method can be used to change the password for the root user as well as for individual users. *Note: before changing any passwords, it is
What is Kernel? The kernel is the central module of an operating system (OS). It is the part of the operating system that loads first, and it remains in main memory. Because it stays in memory, it is important for the kernel to be as small as possible while still
What is CloudLinux? CloudLinux is a linux based operating system designed to give shared hosting providers a more stable and secure OS. Essentially a set of kernel modifications to the Linux distribution, CloudLinux implements features to enable system administrators to take fine-grained control of their server’s resource usage. By isolating
FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. FFmpeg includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files. You will need to login
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system that is based on SQL queries. It is compatible with most known programming languages and can be installed on most Linux distributions that exist, such as Ubuntu and CentOS. MySQL runs as a system service in Unix family systems and services are
Quick Checking Your Apache Version Number If you need to check the Apache version number installed on your server, you can do so in one of a couple ways. In the default configuration, Apache will be set to display its version information on most of you error pages. This means
Check the current version of apache by running httpd –v Then execute the following commands: cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache ./build clean ./build update ./build apache_mod_ssl This should update both the configure options and the version of apache to the most recent version. Once the update is completed, restart apache: RedHat:/sbin/service httpd restart