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This howto guide will step you through how to backup a MySQL database using the MySQL client command line tools on a Linux machine. Backing up databases should be done regularly to prevent any data loss due to disk crashes, data corruption, accidental deletion, etc. The more use the database gets, the more regularly the …
This “how to” guide will step you through the process of setting up Nginx, PHP, and MySQL on CentOS 6.
This “how to” guide will step you through the process of setting up Nginx, PHP, and MySQL on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
This guide will show you how to convert a .crt certificate file and associated private key, and convert it to a .pfx file using OpenSSL. This can be useful if you need to take a certificate file, and load it onto a Windows server for example.
This ‘how to’ guide will step you through the process of installing FreeNAS 8 to a USB memory stick using a Linux computer.
Using SSL encryption is a great way to ensure the data between a PC, and a remote server is secure, and cant be modified or viewed by 3rd parties. This ‘how to’ guide will step you through the process of configuring a Nginx site to use SSL certificates.
This guide will step you through the process of creating a self signed SSL certificate using the OpenSSL application. Sometimes you just need to test something using SSL, without the need to pay for a certificate from a trusted certificate authority. This will allow you to set up a SSL site on Apache, Nginx, or …
By using a pre-compiled version of Nginx from your distributions repositories, you generally don’t know what modules are compiled into it. Common modules that you might need, but may not be compiled in by default, are IPv6, RealIP, SSL, and GZip compression support. To find out what configuration parameters were used to compile Nginx (and …
This howto guide will show you how to configure Varnish to allow you to purge specific items from the cache.
This howto guide will show you how to purge the varnish cache for a specific URL using the curl command line tool.