Nginx.org maintains a repository for Ubuntu. We can use this repository to install the latest version of Nginx. First off, let's create a repository source file for Nginx with the following command. 1vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list Paste in the following two lines to the file: 1deb [arch=amd64] …

Value Description application/json Indicates that the request body format is JSON. application/xml Indicates that the request body format is XML. application/x-www-form-urlencoded Indicates that the request body is URL encoded. In some scenarios, for example, when we are going to send POST requests from a …

Once you got your account on CircleCI and setup your project linked to your git repository, you will have to have a directory named “.circleci” inside the root of your project repo. Create a file named “config.yml” in there. Grab the sample script given by CircleCI platform according to your project type. The first …

Let’s say one of your micro services is running on http://localhost:3000 If you already have a nginx service running on the server, create a server block like this: 1vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.com.conf Grab this content to paste in: 1server { 2 3 server_name domain.com; 4 5 root /var/www/html; 6 index …

Let’s say there are two pull requests open on a project repository. Each change has its own branch like this: master feature/add-base64-endpoint feature/add-user-agent-endpoint The challenge is to use git rebase to add both changes to master. When you finished, your master branch should have three commits in the …

Let’s update the Password Authentication parameter in the ssh service config file: 1vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Hey, what? You can't even find the sshd service? Install it then: 1sudo apt update 2sudo apt install openssh-server In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, uncomment this line: 1#PasswordAuthentication yes Boom! Done. …

Back up the current sources.list first. 1sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup Well, run this command then. 1sudo echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list Now you can run apt update command! Happy networking! 😎

First things first. Let’s check the directory structure of the app. A Full Stack MEVN Application Let’s take a look into the DB image first. 1FROMmongo:latest23WORKDIR/app4COPY . /app56ENV MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root 7ENV MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password 8 9EXPOSE27017I thought importing dump data should be …

I think this is really important in practical docker battle field. 🙂 Let’s go for the docker-compose.yml first. 1version:'3'23services:4nginx:5image:nginx:1.15-alpine6restart:unless-stopped7volumes:8- ./data/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d9- ./data/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt10- …

Let’s go for our docker-compose.yml first. 1version:'3'23services:4wp:5image:wordpress:latest6ports:7- ${IP}:80:808volumes:9- ./php.conf.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/conf.ini10- …

Launch OpenVPN client as a daemon. Here I assume you already have your own cert file - filename.ovpn. 🙂 Modify its file extension to conf like so: 1mv filename.ovpn filename.conf Put your cert file inside /etc/openvpn directory like so: 1mv /path/to/filename.conf /etc/openvpn/ OpenVPN client service name would be …

To run a container from an image: 1docker container run -it --rm ubuntu /bin/bash -t: terminal inside -i: (STDIN) grabbing --rm: remove container automatically when process exits --name: name the container or daemon -d: daemonize the container running To list all containers: 1docker container ps -a To start or stop …

Today I am going to follow up the procedures to setup standard LAMP stack on CentOS 7. For the latest version of phpMyAdmin: 1rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY* 2yum -y install epel-release For MariaDB: 1yum -y install mariadb-server mariadb 2systemctl enable --now mariadb 3mysql_secure_installation For Apache: …

Simply follow this script below: 1yum install epel-release -y 2yum install certbot python-certbot-apache mod_ssl -y 3certbot --apache Create a cron job which renews certification once a week. 1crontab -e 10 0,12 * * * python -C 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && certbot …

First off, install nginx on the server machine. 1yum update 2yum install epel-release 3yum install nginx Edit the nginx config file then. 1cd /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 2vim nginx.conf Edit the file like this: 1server_name domain.com; If you are not going to use domain name, a public ip address would also work instead of …

PM2 is a process manager for nodejs apps. It daemonizes apps built with nodejs, which means run-as-service. Let’s install PM2 using npm. 1npm install -g [email protected] Now you can start your app using pm2 like so: 1pm2 start app.js Next, register the app as startup process. 1pm2 startup systemd 2pm2 save You can check the …

Prerequisites for a vhost setup: 1chown -R apache:apache /path_to/site_root Set the permission of the root directory to 755, you may already know. 🙂 Well, let’s create a vhost config file before you edit it. 1cd /etc/httpd/conf.d 2vim domain_name.conf Now, grab this content to your config file: 1<VirtualHost …

I recently came up with this error on one of my OpenVPN servers. "OpenVPN - Socket bind failed on local address [AF_INET] IP:#portnum: Cannot assign requested address" Let me share how I did fix it. First off, check this openvpn’s default init script : [email protected] 1sudo grep After …

This is a manual version of ssh-copy-id command. Let’s say that we are logging in to server named B from a local machine named A. First off, generate authentication key pair without passphrase on the local machine A: 1ssh-keygen -t rsa Now you got a public key of your local machine, of which path is: 1cd ~/.ssh 2cat …

In some situations, you are given only a ppk file for access to a cloud server. You know, however, it's for Putty on windows, not for OpenSSH client which might be the most familiar to you.🤔 I am gonna introduce a method to convert a ppk file into a pem file so that you can login to the linux server with ssh command …