In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Varnish Cache 4 on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Varnish Cache is a powerful open-source HTTP accelerator that can be installed in front of any Webserver such as Apache or Nginx. Varnish Cache can improve the overall performance of your web server by caching content. The Varnish cache stores the copy of user requests and serves th...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Docker on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Docker is an open-source tool that makes creating and managing Linux containers (LXC) easy. With Docker, the applications reside inside the container on top of the Linux operating system. Docker uses Kernel features such as groups and namespace to allow the independent containers to run on a...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ProjectPier on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, ProjectPier is an open-source community aimed at developing simple, powerful, and intuitive software for web-based project management and group collaboration. ProjectPier gives you a flexible system for managing projects involving multiple organizations by providing a central place for ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Spacewalk on CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, Spacewalk is the package and system management solution for Redhat-derived Linux operating systems such as CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Fedora, by the spacewalk community. It is released under the GPLv2 license. It offers a more flexible way to do it. Spacewalk enables you to inventory y...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure of VLC media player on your CentOS 7 server. For those of you who didn’t know, VLC (VideoLan) is a portable & and open-source multimedia player available for Linux-like operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and android. VLC plays our favorite audio and video files, it can play various audio & video formats such a...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to completely remove Nginx on CentOS systems. For those of you who didn’t know, Nginx is a powerful web server software that can be used on your server. It is also known for its high performance and low memory usage which will allow fewer resources to be used but get the job done efficiently. A popular setup is to use it as a proxy for Apache, which can t...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is an open-source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets. Redis also supports data types such as Transitions, Publish and Subscribe. ‘Redis ’ is considered more ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is an open-source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets. Redis also supports data types such as Transitions, Publish, and Subscribe. ‘Redis ’ is considered more...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Elgg on CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, Elgg is an open-source and powerful social networking engine used to create your own social networking website. It is a PHP-based application and can easily be installed on a Linux VPS. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most import...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Magento on CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, Magento is one of the world's most widely used applications for managing E-Commerce sites. Magento is fully customizable to meet the user's requirements and allows them to create and launch a fully functional online store in minutes. Magento employs the MySQL relational database management ...