Jeff Wilson

An experienced Linux veteran with many years of experience. Helping other Linux admins with frequent Linux and business-related blog posts on the RoseHosting blog. Techie by choice. Loving nature and travel. Happily married and father of two lovely children.

Install ffmpeg-php on CentOS 6 with DirectAdmin

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install-ffmpeg-php-on-a-centos-6-with-directadminIn this post, we will show you how to install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php on a CentOS 6 VPS with a DirectAdmin control panel. FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework capable of decoding, encoding, transcoding, recording, converting and streaming digital audio and video in various formats. ffmpeg-php is a PHP extension which is used for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files from within PHP scripts.

This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems with DirectAdmin installed as well but was tested and written for CentOS 6 VPS.

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Does Changing Website Host Affect SEO?

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Does Changing Website Host Affect SEO?

Does Changing Website Host Affect SEO? In short, yes it does affect the SEO of a website. Changing the location of your web host can affect your website in several different ways. One of these is SEO and you site’s search engine listing position. Though many believe that location changes only have a minimal effect on a site’s SEO rankings, here are several points that show how the effects can be significant.

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How to Install Joomla on CentOS 7

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Install Joomla on CentOS 7

Today we will show you, how to install Joomla on  Centos 7, using Apache web-server and MySQL database. Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS.

Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques  and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL, MS SQL or PostgreSQL database and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.
It is an immensely popular and award-winning open source Content Management System (CMS) that has been downloaded over 50 million times. Joomla CMS enables users to build websites and create potent online applications in an easy way. Installing Joomla on CentOS 7, is fairly easy task, just follow the steps below and you should have it done in less then 10 minutes.

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