Jeff Wilson, Author at RoseHosting

How to Install Joomla 3 on CentOS 7

May 30, 2025April 13, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Introduction

In this post we will show you how to install Joomla 3 on CentOS 7, with MariaDB 10.2, PHP-FPM 7.1 and Nginx. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS) for publishing web content and online apps. Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs and it is used all over the world to power millions of websites and applications of all shapes and sizes. Joomla is a free and open-source, php-based CMS system with wide range of features for publishing content. This guide should work on other RedHat-based systems as well but was tested and written for an CentOS 7 VPS. The process of installing Joomla 3 on CentOS 7 is fairly easy and it shouldn’t take more then 10 minutes.

How to install ownCloud 10 on Ubuntu 16.04

June 3, 2022April 12, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

ownCloud is a popular open source enterprise web application used for data synchronization and file sharing. It allows users to easily manage their files, contacts, calendars, to-do lists, and more, making it a great alternative to to the popular Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc. cloud platforms. ownCloud is a cross-platform application and supports all popular operating systems, but this tutorial was written especially for Ubuntu 16.04. At the time of writing the latest ownCloud version is 10.0.7.

How to Install Maven on CentOS 7

June 3, 2022April 11, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you how to install Maven on CenOS 7. Apache Maven is free and open source java based software for project management and comprehension tool. Maven allows users to easily store documents, generate reports and documentation from a central piece of information. Installing Maven on CentOS 7 is fairly easy task, just carefully follow the steps bellow and you should have Maven installed on your CentOS 7 server in less then 10 minutes.

How to Install MariaDB on CentOS 7

December 9, 2022April 10, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We will show you how to install MariaDB on CentOS 7. MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL. MariaDB is a free and open source database software, widely used ranging from websites to banking software. It is an improved, drop-in replacement for MySQL. It is one of the most popular database servers in the world, developed after the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle Inc. to stay free and open source. Installing MariaDB on CentOS 7 is an easy task, just carefully follow the steps of this tutorial and should have MariaDB installed on CentOS 7, in less than 10 minutes. Let’s get started!

How to install NextCloud 13 on Ubuntu 16.04

December 9, 2022April 5, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

NextCloud is one of the most popular free and open-source self-hosted file sync and sharing application. You can use it to store your personal files, contacts, pictures, music, and much more and it allows you to access them or share them with your friends at any time. It is a popular alternative to another widely used file hosting application called ownCloud.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install NextCloud 13 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.
If you are an ownCloud user looking to migrate to NextCloud, make sure you also read our tutorial on how to migrate from ownCloud to NextCloud.

We have an updated version of this tutorial on How to Install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 20.04

Requirements

9 Linux Package Managers

April 5, 2023April 4, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll compare different Linux Package Managers. Between all Linux distributions, one of the things they share is the need to be able to install new software packages onto the system. Depending on the distribution, various package managers are available, allowing the user to install, manage, and remove packages easily and quickly. Package managers are very good at streamlining installs, with common installation locations and configurations. In this article, we will discuss the different available package managers, what distributions they can be used on, and what makes each unique. We will cover Debian-Based Package Managers, RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-Based Package Managers, and other custom designed package managers.

How to Install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

December 9, 2022April 3, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Nginx is one of the most popular open source web server software. It is widely used for load balancing, reverse proxying, media streaming and much more. Nginx is the only all-in-one high-performance HTTP server, designed to serve a high volume of concurrent connections, as an alternative to Apache web server. Today Nginx is installed on more than 450 million servers worldwide and is used by one of the highest traffic websites on the web like Dropbox, Zynga games, Netflix. In this tutorial, we will show you how to Install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04.

List All Installed Packages with yum on CentOS 7

December 19, 2022March 30, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

In this short tutorial, we will show you, how to list all installed packages with yum on CentOS 7 . Yum is the default package manager used in CentOS, used to interact with both individual RPM package files and many repositories. This tutorial was written for CentOS 7, but the commands in this tutorial should work on any server with Redhat, CentOS, or Fedora installed on it.