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Set up letsencrypt for Nginx using certbot on Ubuntu 20.04
Installing SSL on Ubuntu 20.04 using certbot.
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Set up phpmyadmin on Ubuntu 22.04
Install phpmyadmin on Ubuntu 20.04 to make managing MySQL databases easier for yourself.
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Exim4 a powerful Send-Only MTA
MTA (or Mail Transport Agent) can prove helpful if You're hosting Your own server and do not want to pay someone for Your emails. If Properly configured, An MTA can be a good candidate for email transport at small scale for applications like WordPress which only really send
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WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Learn how to set up the leading CMS platform WordPress on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with LEMP stack.
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Ubuntu Server housekeeping
If You're a self-hosting your website, One particular thing that You'd want to take care of is to keep the system up-to-date. The process requires some discipline and planning but most of it can be automated. Ubuntu also offers a package called unattended-upgrades which automatically installs
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Redirects in Nginx
We at tekduke just love nginx so much. Generally, it is our default web server. Although we use traefik for some parts of our infrastructure, mostly we are running the open source nginx on our production servers as a reverse proxy or web-server. It comes in handy to know how
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Block direct access to IP Address in Nginx
Admit it, we've all been there! We spin up a new VPS and find out that the server was earlier being used by someone else who didn't deal with their mess properly and now all those internet zombies are now trying to find directories on your
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Configure UFW on Ubuntu
UFW (aka Uncomplicated Fire Wall) is a software firewall shipped with Ubuntu. It is really simple to configure yet equally powerful in terms of blocking attacks directed to various ports on your server. It usually comes disabled by default. In this article, we will understand how to configure some basic
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Configure custom SMTP with Ghost
Ghost is a very powerful publishing platform written in NodeJS. This site runs on ghost and we're very confident of the platform. One particular challenge we faced was to get the emails working. Ghost provides documentation for Mailgun and AWS SES but no information is provided for using