First Steps After Getting a CentOS VPS
In this tutorial, we will go through everything you need to do in order to setup your new CentOS VPS. Even though you can start using your server immediately, there are many additional things and tweaks you can do to get...
12 useful examples of Linux grep command
In this article, we are going to provide you with useful examples of Linux grep command including the two variant programs: egrep and fgrep. grep (global regular expression print) is used to search for text strings and regular...
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini, is a common WordPress error when installing new themes, plugins, uploading new images or creating new posts. Installing WordPress is a fairly easy task and...
How to Redirect HTTP Traffic to HTTPS in Nginx and Apache
In this tutorial, we will show you how to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS in Nginx and Apache. You should always use HTTPS instead of HTTP to protect your website, even if it doesn’t handle sensitive communications. The main...
Top 10 Social Media Plugins for WordPress
In order to drive more social media traffic to your WordPress blog, you will love these WordPress social media plugins. These plugins will let you add a beautiful set of social share buttons on your posts which will encourage...
Set Up and Configure a Firewall with FirewallD on CentOS 7
FirewallD is a firewall management tool available by default on CentOS 7 servers. Basically, it is a wrapper around iptables and it comes with graphical configuration tool firewall-config and command line tool firewall-cmd. With...
Basic screen command usage and examples
Screen is a very useful command that offers the ability to use multiple shell windows (sessions) from a single SSH session. When the session is detached or there is a network disruption, the process that is started in a screen...
How to install and use wget on Ubuntu
Wget is a free software package that can be used for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP which are considered as the most widely-used Internet protocols. Its name comes from World Wide Web + get.
5 Essential Tips for Securing Your WordPress Sites
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform today. Being as popular as it is, it comes with its own strengths and weaknesses. The very fact that almost everybody uses it, makes it more prone to vulnerabilities....
How to Speed up Odoo
Odoo is the most popular ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software, written in Python and uses PostgreSQL as database back-end. The Odoo community edition is a free and open source software which includes project management,...