How often do you restart ngnix service on Linux webserver? This blog post will cover various ways to restart Nginx on a Linux system via command line and on Nginx running in a docker container. I have covered on both on a [...]
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How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 18.04
Nginx Server Blocks allows you to run more than one website on a single machine. With Server Blocks, you can specify the site document root (the directory which contains the website files), create a separate security policy for each site, [...]
How to Create Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04
SSL stands for "Secure Sockets Layer", which is the standard security technology meant for creating an encrypted link between a Web server and a Web browser. This link ensures that all information passed between the server and browser remains private [...]
How to Setup Django Development Environment on Ubuntu 18.04
Django is a powerful web framework that can help you get your Python application or website off the ground. Django includes a simplified development server for testing your code locally, but for anything even slightly production related, a more secure [...]
How to Install Nginx Amplify Agent on CentOS 7
Nginx Amplify Agent is a powerful Nginx monitoring tool written in Python. Its role is to collect various metrics and metadata and send them securely to the backend for storage and visualization. After proper installation, it provides you with NGINX [...]
NGINX Unit - An Open Source Web Application Server
Nginx announced the release of the first beta of Unit - Nginx Unit, a dynamic web application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. It is an application server that supports Python, PHP and Go, with support coming for Java, Node.js [...]
How to Install Logrotate and Configure Nginx Log Rotation
Logrotate is a utility designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It takes care of automatic log file rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. All the services or applications deployed on the server [...]
How to Install OpenLDAP with phpLDAPadmin on an Nginx Server
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, better known as LDAP. It used to manage and access related information in a centralized, hierarchical file and directory structure. An LDAP information directory is a type of database, but it's not a relational database. [...]
How to Install SonarQube with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
Sonarqube is an open source platform for continuous inspection of code quality. It is written in Java language and it offers support per languages. It supports various languages like Perl, PHP, Ruby etc. It provides reports on various Code quality [...]
How to Install Nextcloud 10 with Nginx on Debian 8
Nextcloud is an open source file sync and share software. It is a fork of ownCloud and finds its usage both at individual and Enterprise level. It was recently started by Frank Karlitschek who founded the ownCloud project earlier. Nextcloud [...]
How to Setup OwnCloud 9 with Nginx and OpenSSL on FreeBSD 11
OwnCloud is a PHP and MySQL based free and open source file sharing application platform which allows us to create our very own cloud storage platform. The OwnCloud server which is a free edition is released under GNU AGPLv3 license [...]
How to Setup OwnCloud 9 on Debian 8 Using Nginx with Https
OwnCloud is an open source file sync & share software for everyone operating the free OwnCloud Server edition, to large enterprises and service providers operating the OwnCloud Enterprise Subscription. It provides a safe, secure, and compliant file synchronization and sharing solution. We [...]
How to Setup FreeBSD 11 Webserver with Nginx, Mysql, PHP 7.0 (PHP FPM)
We have been running LEMP stack ie Nginx, MySQL and PHP in Linux based operating system but today we'll be installing FEMP stack on FreeBSD 11. FreeBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system based on BSD systems. [...]
How to Download Files using Https from Nginx Docker Containers
As system administrators, we have situations where we need to download large files such as backup files, database backups, emails, log files etc securely between our servers. Usually we use SFTP, SSH or SCP for this purposes. But these processes slow down [...]