In this tutorial, we will show you how to replace OpenSSH with Dropbear on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It runs on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is open-source software, distributed under an MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless rout...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Suhosin PHP 5 protection security patch on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, the Suhosin patch is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect your servers against a number of well-known problems in PHP applications and on the other hand against potential unknown vulnerabilities within these applicatio...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MySQL Database Server on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. The MySQL source code is freely available because it was originally developed as freeware. MySQL is written in C and C++ and is compatible with al...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install IonCube Loader on the CentOS system. For those of you who didn’t know, IonCube Loaders is basically an encryption/decryption utility for PHP applications that also assists in speeding up the pages that are served. It is often required for a lot of PHP-based applications. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PHP 5.5 on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code is interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the resulting web page: PHP commands can be embedded...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to configuration Iptables firewall on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, Iptables is a user-space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are currently us...