Category: Tutorials

The locate command is an invaluable tool when you’re trying to track down a particular file but know only the file name. Locate reads one or more databases prepared by the related updatedb and writes file names matching at least one of the patterns to standard output, one per line.

PhpMyAdmin is an open-source tool used for the administration of MySQL. In addition to offering the capability to perform administrative tasks such as creating, editing, or deleting databases, and managing users and permissions, PhpMyAdmin provides a graphical user interface to do all of these tasks and more.

MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. It is easy to install, offers many speed and performance improvements, and is easily integrated into most MySQL deployments. MariaDB offers more storage engines than MySQL, including Cassandra (NoSQL), XtraDB (drop-in replacement for InnoDB), and OQGRAPH.

Docker is a container-based software framework, commonly used for automating deployment of applications. Containers are encapsulated, lightweight, and portable application modules.

Docker is a container-based software framework commonly used for automating deployment of applications. Containers are encapsulated, lightweight, and portable application modules.

As a matter of following security best practices, you should protect your server with a firewall. Fedora 23 and CentOS 7 come with firewalld, an alternative to iptables.

For security best practices, do not disable firewalld without enabling another firewall solution. Disabling firewalld without enabling an alternative will leave every port on your server open and completely unprotected.

In cPanel/WHM versions up to 11.52, users were able to choose between two mail servers: Courier and Dovecot. Courier was selected by default, and most cPanel users never had reason to switch. However, beginning with cPanel/WHM version 54 (the preceding “11” was dropped), Courier has been deprecated. cPanel will no longer support Courier in future releases, and will automatically convert the mail server to Dovecot if it has not been done manually within 30 days of updating to cPanel/WHM version 54.

Several cases have been reported where a broken symlink results in a permissions error when viewing or attempting to modify user cron jobs. Restoring the link resolves the issue.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the most common method of uploading files to a server. A wide array of FTP servers, such as vsftpd, and clients exist for every platform.