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Upgrade WordPress Fast from the CLI (quick and dirty)

All HowTo's Web Servers
This article describes the fastest way I know to upgrade a WordPress site. A little background: I recently had a WordPress site that was error’ing when attempting to administer it. There were missing functions, etc. I decided to simply upgrade the WordPress code-base to the latest and solve the problem
October 05, 2022 | Andrew Galdes
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Docker 101 – Get your head around Docker

All HowTo's Kubernetes & Docker Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers
In this article we’re going to walk through installing Docker on Ubuntu, starting a few Docker containers, and then running those containers behind a reverse proxy. When we’re done, you’ll have a load balance terminating SSL (TLS) connections with multiple Docker containers running the workload. This is how it will
March 21, 2022 | Andrew Galdes
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Docker for Windows – Install, run and launch a Web Server in Docker

Kubernetes & Docker Web Servers Windows
This article shows how to install Docker for Windows 10 (and probably 11), and then start a web server in a Docker container. Install Docker Visit “https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop” and download Docker installer. Start the installation process (you’ll need local admin privileges). During the installation process, the wizard will ask if you
December 15, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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Hide Apache and PHP Version Details

All HowTo's Cyber-Security Linux Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Web Servers
Sometimes we don’t want the public knowing the versions of Apache and PHP running on our servers. This article shows how to hide that information. We’re using CentOS 7 for this example but the only difference really is the location of the configuration file for the Vhosts. Hide the Apache
November 10, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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Configure Metasploit with NMap and the Database – Advanced

All HowTo's Cyber-Security Linux PostgreSQL Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers
This article walks you through the process of installing, configuring and running scans using Metasploit and Nmap. Both CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 20.04 are discussed. Our objective is to be able to run nmap scans and have the results go into a database so we can filter the results later
August 24, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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GeoBlocking with Apache on CentOS and Ubuntu

All HowTo's Cyber-Security Linux Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers
This article describes how to protect your Apache web server by restricting which countries can access it. We’re using Apache on CentOS 7 but Ubuntu instructions are included and are very similar. I’ve given two examples; one on whitelisting everything except what we want to block, and blacklisting everything except
May 04, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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Kubernetes (MicroK8s) Part 2 – Replica Sets and Scaling on Ubuntu 20.04

All HowTo's Kubernetes & Docker Linux Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers
This article continues from Part 1 – Installation and configuration. We can create a replica set (replicateset) or “rs” for short, so we can scale an application to meet demand. Create a file on the Kubernetes host called “my-rep-set.yaml” and populate it with the following: Tip: This is just an
February 20, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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Kubernetes (MicroK8s) Part 1 – Installation on Ubuntu 20.04

All HowTo's Kubernetes & Docker Linux Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers
This article walks you through the process of installing the minimal Kubernetes environment on Ubuntu 20.04. Kubernetes comes in two forms; a single node cluster and a multi-node cluster. In this walk through, we’ll be using the single node cluster called MicroK8s. I suggest starting with a Ubuntu 20.04 server
February 20, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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How to create a CSR file on Linux and use the Certificate file with Apache, Nginx and IIS

All HowTo's Cyber-Security Linux Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers
This article is focused on generating a CSR file, submitting it to a CA and using the resulting Certificate on Linux with Apache, Nginx and/or IIS on Windows. The Windows related steps continue on from the work required to get the Certificate ready for Linux. In other words, regardless of
January 07, 2021 | Andrew Galdes
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Using Fail2Ban to Protect WordPress Logins (CentOS)

All HowTo's Cyber-Security Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Web Servers
This article demonstrates how to use Fail2Ban to block IP addresses attempting to compromise a WordPress instance via the login process. In this walk-through, we’re using CentOS 7 and FirewallD. Just be aware that if you’re using a caching service like CloudFlare, you can’t use this method because you’ll block
November 13, 2020 | Andrew Galdes
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