So yesterday we showed students and new users how to setup WordPress to redirect its feed to Google’s FeedBurner with Nginx support. This post tells the same story but uses Apache2 to perform the redirect instead of Nginx. My post from yesterday all started after some students asked about redirecting WordPress feeds to FeedBurner. FeedBurner […]
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Students Tutorial – Allow WordPress Permalinks on Nginx or Apache2
Installing WordPress is not all to it. For WordPress to function properly, one must make sure all the correct settings are in place. This brief tutorial shows you how to correctly configure Nginx or Apache2 webservers to allow WordPress permalinks. On this site, we’ve written many detailed tutorials on installing WordPress on Nginx and Apache2. […]
Students Tutorial – Setup Ubuntu Linux with Apache2, MariaDB and PHP (LAMP)
LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache2, MySQL and PHP. However, this post is going to show you another LAMP setup with MariaDB instead of MySQL. Previous LAMP setup always included MySQL, until MariaDB was introduced and more Linux distributions began using it instead of MySQL. Although MariaDB is rapidly replacing MySQL server, they both […]
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS using Nginx or Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04
For students and new users using Ubuntu 17.04 with Nginx or Apache2 webserver to power a WordPress blog or website, here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to easily redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. By now you probably already know that running your blog pages over HTTPS is recommended by all major search […]
Apache2 301 Redirect Without htaccess File on Ubuntu 17.04
Few days ago we showed students and new users how to easily do 301 redirects using Apache2 and Nginx web servers on Ubuntu 17.04 systems. In that post, the method we used to perform Apache2 redirect was to use the .htaccess file in the root directory or DocumentRoot of the site. This is the most […]
Setting up SSL/TLS for Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are protocols used to secure communications between networks devices or services. It’s commonly used to encrypt web traffic between a client web browser and a web server. Other network devices and services use SSL/TLS as well, however, the protocols are mostly use to secure web traffic […]
Install Apache2 and Disable Directory Listing on Ubuntu
Apache2 is the most popular webservers in used today. Majority of the websites and web apps that are in operation are most likely running Apache2 web server. This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 and how to disable directory listing or indexing to prevent exposing sensitive directories. […]
Quickly Get LetsEncrypt Certificates for Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 /17.10
This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to quickly obtain LetEncrypt SSL/TLS certificates for your domain using Apache2 webserver on Ubuntu 17.04 / 17.10 systems. For those who don’t know, LetEncrypt is an opensource initiative to provide free SSL certificates to anyone with valid domains. With LetEncrypt, you will never have to pay […]
Switch from Apache2 to Nginx to Run WordPress on Ubuntu 17.04 / 17.10
This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to easily migrate or switch from Apache2 webserver to Nginx running WordPress. Most websites today are powered by Apache2 because it’s the default choice on majority of the Linux distributions. Apache2 is the most popular webserver in used today. It is the almost always chosen to […]
Setup Varnish and Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 / 17.10
Varnish is an opensource HTTP accelerator. It is usually configured to sit in front of webservers to quickly serve HTTP/HTTPS requests. Varnish can also be used as load balancer to distribute loads across multiple webservers. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install and configure Varnish with Apache2 on […]