If you have a web server you may want to host several different sites on it. This is solved by making nginx serve different directories…

To test how a web server responds to a request with a certain hostname, editing your host file is often the easiest way that doesn’t…

No site looks serious if it has a big red warning flag when you browse it. The solution to this is to enable HTTPS with…

If you don’t have access to a wordpress account, your best bet might be to reset the password through the database. Open the database in…

Adminer is a great, simple tool to access and edit databases through a browser. To use it, you need a web server with PHP. In…

Apache handles multiple websites by breaking them up into their own separate config files. This system makes it very easy to start or stop single…

To set the timezone in RedHat or CentOS, first unlink the current timezone: sudo unlink /etc/localtime Find out which timezone you want to use by…

Setting the timezone in a Debian based distro, such as Ubuntu, is easy. Just run this command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata And choose the correct timezone…

Permissions in Linux can be confusing to newcomers. There are 3 different permissions, read, write, and execute. You’ve probably seen how they are represented if…

It is important to use the right permissions in your web-directories on servers, otherwise you can have serious security flaws, such as allowing the wrong…