In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable Gzip Compression on Nginx. For those of you who didn’t know, Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and highest-traffic sites on the internet. It is more resource-friendly than Apache in most cases and can be used as a web server or a reverse proxy. So today I’m going to s...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to Install Nginx using yum command on CentOS Linux. For those of you who didn’t know, Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and highest-traffic sites on the internet. It is more resource-friendly than Apache in most cases and can be used as a web server or a reverse proxy. This articl...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to check disk space usage with ncdu utility on your Linux server. For those of you who didn’t know, Ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command-line tool to view and analyze disk space usage on Linux. It can drill down into directories and report space used by individual directories. This way it is very easy to track down space-consuming files/directories. ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to hide Nginx Server Header on your Linux server. In default Nginx configuration, the server sends HTTP Header with the information of the Nginx version number of the Server. The HTTP response header “Server” displays the version number of the server. This information can be used to try to exploit any vulnerabilities in the Nginx, especially if you are ...
In this tutorial, we will show you various Linux and Unix Tar command examples that might be helping you. For those of you who didn’t know, TAR, short for Tape Archive, is a command-line utility in Linux and Unix-like operating systems used for creating and manipulating archive files. The TAR command can compress and decompress files and directories in various formats, such as .tar, .tar.gz, ....
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install rar/unrar on your CentOS system. For those of you who didn’t know, RAR is the most popular tool for creating and extracting compressed archive (.rar) files, but unfortunately, rar tool doesn’t pre-installed under Linux systems, we need to install it using third-party tools to open, extract, uncompress or unrar archive files. This article ass...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FFmpeg and FFmpeg-PHP extension on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion. There’s also a great PHP package called FFmpeg-PHP that allows for easy use of FFmpeg from inside PHP scripts. In this tutorial, I will show you the easy way to ins...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Squid 3 on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Squid proxy is used by various organizations and internet providers to reduce bandwidth and increase response time. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the s...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to increase the PHP memory limit on a Linux server. For those of you who didn’t know, PHP is a popular open-source programming language that is widely used to develop dynamic web applications. In some cases, PHP scripts may require more memory than the default memory limit set in the PHP configuration. This can cause errors and affect the performance of t...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Varnish Cache on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, Varnish is an open-source reverse HTTP proxy, an HTTP accelerator, and a useful tool for speeding up an Apache server. The varnish is also known as front-end web caching software that you put in front of an Apache webserver to speed it up. It makes your website really fast and accelerat...