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How To Reset Your MySQL or MariaDB Root Password

Prerequisites To recover your root MySQL/MariaDB password, you will need: Access to the Linux server running MySQL or MariaDB with a sudo user. Step 1 — Identifying the Database Version Most modern Linux distributions ship with either MySQL or MariaDB,…

How to Migrate Website from DirectAdmin to cPanel

Introduction WHM’s transfer tool is a great way to migrate accounts from DirectAdmin to cPanel. Often, when the website content is very large, migration with this transfer tool can fail. Here, one possible workaround is to migrate account manually. Step…

How to configure Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache on CentOS

Introduction In this tutorial, we are going to combine the two web servers (Apache and Nginx) to get the best result of each other, We are going to set Nginx as our static content processor and Apache to processing the…

How To Install Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP (LAMP) Stack on CentOS 8

Prerequisites To follow this guide, you’ll need access to a CentOS 8 server as a sudo user. Step 1 — Install Apache Install the httpd package with: $ sudo dnf install httpd After the installation is finished, run the following command to enable…

How to Setup DKIM (DomainKeys) with Postfix on CentOS

Step 1 – Install DKIM-milter First make sure you have enabled EPEL repository in your system. CentOS 8: $ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm $ dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools CentOS 7: $ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm After that install dkim-milter package using following…

How to Backup a Linux VPS to an Amazon AWS S3

Prerequisites You should already have an account with AWS. S3 Bucket — How Do I Create an S3 Bucket? Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) need to be generate from AWS Management Console — Understanding and Getting Your Security Credentials Step 1 — Installing…

How To Install MariaDB on CentOS 8

Step 1 — Installing MariaDB First, use dnf to install the MariaDB package: $ sudo dnf install mariadb-server You will be asked to confirm the action. Press y then ENTER to proceed. Once the installation is complete, start the service with systemctl: …

How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04

Prerequisites Before you begin this guide, you should have a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your Ubuntu 18.04 server. If you are logged in as root instead, you can drop the sudo portion of all the following commands, but they will work…

How To Add and Delete Users on CentOS 8

Prerequisites This tutorial assumes you are logged into a CentOS 8 server with a non-root sudo-enabled user. If you are logged in as root instead, you can drop the sudo portion of all the following commands, but they will work either way. Adding Users Throughout…

How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) Stack on CentOS 8

Prerequisites Operating System CentOS 8 Access as root or sudo user Step 1 — Install Nginx Install the nginx package with: $ sudo dnf install nginx After the installation is finished, run the following command to enable and start the server: $…