Thursday, January 4, 2018

Thursday, December 28, 2017

How to Install Multiple Versions of PHP on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

This tutorial shows you how to install multiple versions of PHP on Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 17.10 and let a particular Apache virtual host or Nginx server block use one of them. This is useful when you have multiple web applications on your server but one or two of them isn’t compatible with...

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How to Install Multiple Versions of PHP on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

How to Properly Enable HTTPS on Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

This tutorial shows you how to properly enable HTTPS on Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10. Google Chrome and Firefox have already begun marking non-encrypted web pages with password input box as being insecure. Eventually all HTTP web pages will be marked as insecure. HTTPS will b...

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How to Properly Enable HTTPS on Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

Monday, December 18, 2017

How to Compile PHP7.0/PHP7.1 From Source on Arch Linux

This tutorial shows you how to compile PHP7.0/PHP7.1 on Arch Linux and install it alongside PHP7.2. Arch Linux is a rolling-release distribution with the newest and greatest software. PHP7.2 landed in Arch Linux repository. Some web applications such as WordPress works well with PHP7.2, but...

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How to Compile PHP7.0/PHP7.1 From Source on Arch Linux

Saturday, December 16, 2017

How to Easily Boost Ubuntu 16.04/17.10 Network Performance by Enabling TCP BBR

This tutorial shows you how to enable TCP BBR on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10. TCP BBR is a TCP congestion control algorithm developed by Google. It tackles shortcomings of traditional TCP congestion control algorithms (Reno or CUBIC). According to Google, it can achieve orders of magnitude higher...

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How to Easily Boost Ubuntu 16.04/17.10 Network Performance by Enabling TCP BBR

Thursday, December 14, 2017

How to Set up Shadowsocks-libev Proxy Server on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

This tutorial is going to show you how to set up Shadowsocks proxy on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.10. Shadowsocks is a lightweight, fast and secure Socks5 proxy to bypass Internet censorship. We will learn how to set up the server side and how to configure the desktop client on Ubuntu. There are...

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How to Set up Shadowsocks-libev Proxy Server on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 17.10 with Nginx, MariaDB, PHP7.1 (LEMP)

This tutorial is going to show you how to install WordPress on Ubuntu 17.10 with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP7.1 (LEMP Stack). WordPress is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) in the world. It is estimated that more than a quarter of websites today are powered by WordPress.
PHP7.1 made...

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How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 17.10 with Nginx, MariaDB, PHP7.1 (LEMP)