Category Archives: CentOS

How to check MariaDB version

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Darren

“MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition … Continue reading →

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How to Setup CentOS 7 on AWS

Posted on October 20, 2018 by Darren

This tutorial will show you how to create a CentOS 7 instance on AWS. We assume that you already have you AWS account created and that you are logged in already. Step 1 Click Services and then EC2 Step 2 … Continue reading →

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How to Run Wildfly on CentOS 7

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Darren

WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server authored by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on multiple … Continue reading →

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How to change the hostname in CentOS 7

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Darren

First edit the hostname file by typing: sudo vi /etc/hostname Delete the line that you see in the file so it our case we deleted: localhost.localdomain Now  enter your hostname, in our case we called it darrens centos.   We … Continue reading →

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How to install ElasticSearch on CentOS 7

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Darren

“Elasticsearch is a search engine based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is released as open source under the terms of … Continue reading →

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How to run a command on Startup on Linux (works on CentOS & Ubuntu)

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Darren

Hi there, In this example I had a need to record boot up times in a file that i could access easily. To do so I decided to run a command on startup. This tutorial tool place on CentOS but … Continue reading →

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How to statically assign DNS in CentOS 7

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Darren

You can statically assign DNS in Centos 7. In this example we will assign Googles DNS, which is: 8.8.8.8 8.8.44 To begin we will first edit the our internet adaptor, do so run the command: sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enpXXX in our … Continue reading →

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How to disable root ssh logins on CentOS 7

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Darren

If you have a server that’s available over a network it’s generally a good idea to disable root access over ssh. The reason for this, is that, scripts run attempting to access  your server and these scripts use the root … Continue reading →

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How to install cPanel / WHM on CentOS 7

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Darren

Hi there, cPanel is an online Linux-based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. This tutorial will show you the steps involved to install cPanel … Continue reading →

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How To Install Tomcat on CentOS 7

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Darren

Hi there, This short tutorial will show you how to install Tomcat 7 on CentOS 7. “The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.” The steps that … Continue reading →

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