Web Servers

CentOS is widely popular among developers and system administrators as it offers full control over its highly customizable open-source software packages. CentOS 8 was finally released on September 24th, 2019. As this is a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the CentOS team had to build an infrastructure to support the newly released RHEL 8.

Server Blocks are a feature of the Nginx web server that allows you to host multiple websites on one server. As opposed to setting up and configuring a server for each domain, hosting a number of websites on a single machine saves both time and money. Learn how to set up Nginx server blocks and configure a local host file on CentOS 7.

Learn how to obtain and install SSL Certificates on Apache CentOS 7. The article explains how to use an automated certificate authority like Let’s Encrypt, a commercial Comodo certificate, and how to create a certificate of your own.

Squid Proxy specifically allows a server to cache frequently visited web pages. When a user seeks a web page or file, the request goes to the proxy server — the intermediary device between the desktop computer and the internet. The proxy server pulls the resource and relays it to the user, by caching the new data and using it for future requests made to the same server. In this guide, you will learn how to set up, configure, and install a Squid Proxy server on CentOS 7.

Ubuntu 18.04 (codenamed Bionic Beaver) is a free, open-source distribution of Linux, based on the Debian operating system. In this tutorial, learn how to install on Ubuntu 18.04. 

Apache Tomcat is a free, open-source, lightweight application server used for Java-based web applications. Developers use it to implement Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies (including Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket). Read this guide to learn how to install and configure Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 18.04.

Node Package Manager (npm) is Node’s official package manager, used for installing and managing package dependencies. In this guide, learn how to install Node.js and npm on CentOS 7. We also cover managing multiple Node versions and install dependencies.

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java implementation package developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this tutorial learn how to install Tomcat 9 on CentOS 7.

Docker Compose is a software package that modifies the behavior of Docker. Docker creates a specific container environment for running an application. Docker Compose lets you string together multiple Docker containers to work together. This guide will help you install and work with Docker Compose.

There are programs that answer two of the most common questions web administrators and SEO's keep asking when it comes to server response time: How fast is my website? How do I improve website performance? We made a list of the best tools to test website speed and performance.