Jeff Wilson, Author at RoseHosting

Install Ajenti Control Panel on a CentOS Server

July 26, 2022September 5, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

Are you looking for a great alternative to Webmin, Kloxo and VestaCP? Well, search no more because Ajenti is an excellent, lightweight and powerful web-based server administration panel. It is a very intuitive, multilingual free control panel that manages almost every aspect of your server.

Ajenti provides a fast and responsive web interface for managing your server, whether you have a Linux VPS (Virtual Private Server) or a Dedicated server. It is built with many pre-made plugins for configuring and monitoring server software and services. To mention few: Apache, Cron, File System, Firewall, MySQL, FTP and many other tools like File Manager, Code Editor for developers and Terminal access.
You will barely need to login to a command line interface either using Putty or Terminal if you have this control panel installed on your server.

How to Install Drupal 7 on CentOS 7

July 4, 2024September 3, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you, How to Install Drupal 7 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we will help you install the latest version of Drupal on your CentOS 7 VPS with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM. Before we continue, we assume that you already have LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB and PHP) installed on your server. If not, you can follow the How to install LEMP tutorial to prepare your linux vps. If you already have LEMP stack installed on your server, we are good to go. Installing Drupal 7 on CentOS 7, is fairly easy task and it should not take more then 10 minutes to complete.

Iptables Block IP

June 3, 2022August 31, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

Today we’ll show you how to block ip address using iptables. In the following article we are adding a blacklist to the firewall script which will allow you to block any abusive IP addresses or ranges of IPs in your Debian or Ubuntu based virtual server. Iptables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Blocking an IP address using iptables is fairly easy task and it should take no more then 5 minutes.

How to install Icinga network monitoring system on a CentOS 7 VPS

December 8, 2022August 30, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

The following article will guide you through the steps of installing Icinda network monitoring system.

What is Icinga?

Icinga is an open source network and computer system monitoring application which was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application. It is backward compatible and is attempting to get past perceived short-comings in Nagios’ development process as well as adding new features such as a modern Web 2.0 style user interface, additional database connectors (for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL), and a REST API that lets administrators integrate numerous extensions without complicated modification of the Icinga core.

How to install Flyspray The Bug Killer on a CentOS 7 VPS

January 24, 2023August 29, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of installing and configuring Flyspray The Bug Killer on a CentOS 7 VPS.

What is Flyspray?

Flyspray is an uncomplicated, web-based bug tracking system written in PHP for assisting with software development. It was designed primarily to suit everyone’s needs.

Flyspray is free software, released under the GNU GPL license. This essentially means that you can get Flyspray and use it free of charge. The source code is available and you are welcome to modify it according to your needs.

Some of the Flyspray features include:

Web-based, platform-independent
Multiple database support, currently MySQL and PGSQL
Easy installation
Easy to use
Multiple projects
‘Watching’ tasks, with notification of changes (email or Jabber)
Comprehensive task history
File attachments
CSS themes
Advanced search features (though easy to use)
Atom/RSS feeds
Two syntax options for task descriptions and more (Dokuwiki / plain text)
Voting for tasks
Dependency graphs

How to improve the performance of your website with APC and memcached.

December 8, 2022August 28, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

Today we will show you how to improve the performance of your website with APC and memcached.
APC stands for Alternative PHP Cache and it is an open source solution if you like to speed-up your website. APC caches the output of compiled PHP code and stores the result in shared memory.
Memcached on the other hand, stores arbitrary data such as strings and objects that come up as a result from API, database calls etc. It is open source as well and it is intended for improving the performance of your website.

The installation of APC and memcahed is very simple and usually takes 10-15 minutes to be completed. This guide will show you how to do that on a Linux VPS.

How to install Suhosin on a Linux VPS

June 3, 2022August 25, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

Suhosin is an advanced protection system for scripts and the PHP core itself. It is an open source PHP patch used for protecting the users and servers against numerous vulnerabilities and security flaws in the PHP basaed applications including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc…

In this article we will guide you through the simple and fast process of installing Suhosin from source on a Linux VPS.

How to Install XOOPS 2.5.7 on CentOS 6

June 3, 2022August 22, 2014 by Jeff Wilson

XOOPS is a popular and easy to use CMS written in PHP. It uses a modular architecture and it is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, weblogs etc.
To install and run XOOPS CMS on a CentOS 6 virtual server follow the very easy steps described below.

This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Linux VPS. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version is XOOPS 2.5.7 and it requires: