NGINX is a free, open-source and powerful HTTP web server and reverse proxy with an event-driven architecture. It is a high performance web server software. It is a much more flexible and lightweight program than Apache HTTP Server. It also works as a reverse proxy, standard mail and TCP/UDP proxy server, and can additionally be configured as a load balancer. It is powering many sites on the web; well known for its high-performance, stability and feature-rich […]
How To Enable EPEL Repository in CentOS 7
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux. EPEL project is not a part of RHEL/Cent OS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open source packages like networking, sys admin, programming, monitoring and so on. Most of the […]
Simple 5 Steps to Setup DMARC records in cPanel
In this post,we will learn how to setup DMARC records in cPanel.It’s allow to specify how mail server is handle message from domain that do not have valid SPF and SKIM records setup.Since the DMARC standard is used by many email providers like Gmail,Yahoo,It can be used to increase your chances of email being delivered successfully. Step1 : Login to cPanel Step2 : Once logged click the Advanced Zone Editor button in the “Domains Sections” […]
7 Steps to Optimize WordPress for Better Performance

In this blog we are going to see some ideas on how to improve the speed of our WordPress website. Having a fast site is necessity to provide our visitors with great user experience and rank well in the search engines like Google which take the loading speed of our pages into consideration. Step1: Enable Dynamic Caching :– “Adding Dynamic caching” to your WordPress site will have great effect on its speed. There are many […]
Setup Automatic Security Updates on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will discuss how configure a CentOS 7 server for automatic security updates. This will make sure the system automatically downloads packages and applies all security updates without any manual intervention. Step1-Install yum-cron on CentOS 7 Yum-cron is a command-line tool to manage system and package updates on CentOS systems. The utility is available in the CentOS 7 repository. You can install it using the command below. [root@newdelhihosting ~]# yum -y install […]
How to setup FTP Server on centos 7.3(VSFTP)

Setting up FTP Server on Centos 7.3:– Ftp server is used to exchange files between computers over network. Setup FTP server on Centos 7:- Step1:- Updating Repository and installing VSFTP package [root@newdelhihosting ~] # yum check-update If update is available update the server and reboot it. [root@newdelhihosting ~] # yum -y install vsftpd Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check —> Package vsftpd.x86_64 0:3.0.2-22.el7 will be installed –> Finished Dependency Resolution Running transaction Installing : vsftpd-3.0.2-22.el7.x86_64 […]
Adding global address book plugin to Roundcube
How to Install/add Global Address Book plugin to Roundcube:- Here we are going see,how to add global addressbook plugin to our roundcube webmail client. This plugin adds an SQL based global address book to our Roundcube,It can be global per installtion IMAP host. Prerequisites for installing:- 1)Centos 7 with Roundcube installation along with root previlages 2)Installing/Adding Global Address Book Plugin https://github.com/johndoh/roundcube-globaladdressbook/archive/master.zip Place this plugin folder into plugins directory Add globaladdressbook to $config[‘plugins’] in […]
A Malware Scanner for Linux Operating System
Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware detector for Linux operating systems. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and generates signatures for detection. Install LMD on CentOS 7:- Download the latest version of LMD using the following command # cd /usr/local/src # wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz # tar -zxvf maldetect-current.tar.gz # cd maldetect-1.4.2 # ./install.sh Output: OUTPUT ======= Linux Malware Detect v1.6 […]
Apache Tomcat 8.5.23 Installation on CentOS

Tomcat:- Tomcat is an open source Java Servlet implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Beside Java Servlets, Tomcat implements several Java server technologies including JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket. Tomcat provides an HTTP Web Server for Java applications with support for HTTP/2, OpenSSL for JSSE and TLS virtual hosting. Step1-Install Java As a first thing, we need to install Java JRE and JDK from the CentOS repository. We will […]
How to Install and Use Nano Text Editor
Nano will enable you to edit text files in your VPS on the command line when you are logged in using SSH. Step1:Installing Nano Text Editor CentOS yum install nano you can test it out by writing this command nano testfile.txt It should open a new text editor window and if you make any changes to this file, they will be saved under the name test.txt. To exit Nano, for now, press CTRL + X. It […]