Web Servers & Tools

In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install Nginx on a CentOS 8 server and how to run Multiple PHP Versions on one server using nginx and PHP-FPM on CentOS 8

After installing CentOS 8 you will have the root user an you might have {another user} that you created during the installation, anyway and in both cases we will not use any user from those users an we will start create our own {web user}

Use Token to use Github

1- first create your token from this link "https://github.com/settings/tokens"

2- you need to add the token into the repo URL like this

git remote set-url origin https://{githubtoken}@github.com/{username}/{repositoryname}.git

while 

While cloning:

git clone https://{username}:{githubtoken}@github.com/{username}/{repositoryname}.git

You can use this command to update the composer into a specifc version 

composer self-update 1.4.1
 

A lot of time we get many requests from some bots we do not need here you can block them from htaccess file 

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
  SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent (SemrushBot|Semrush|python-requests|sqlmap|wordpress|apachebench) bad_user_agents

  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from all
  Deny from env=bad_user_agents
</IfModule>

Step 1 — Installing the Certbot Let’s Encrypt Client

To use Let’s Encrypt to obtain an SSL certificate, you first need to install Certbot and mod_ssl, an Apache module that provides support for SSLv3 encryption.

The certbot package is not available through the package manager by default. You will need to enable the EPEL repository to install Certbot.

Step 1 — Installing the Certbot Let’s Encrypt Client

To use Let’s Encrypt to obtain an SSL certificate, you first need to install Certbot and mod_ssl, an Apache module that provides support for SSLv3 encryption.

The certbot package is not available through the package manager by default. You will need to enable the EPEL repository to install Certbot.

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To display the status of the Elasticseach please use this command

curl -X GET 'localhost:9200/_cat/health?v&pretty'

to display the current installed Elasticsearch plugin use this command 

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cat/plugins?v&s=component&h=name,component,version,description&pretty"
 

This wiki will help you add specific directories in the parent directory 
Lets say you have two directories 

• app
• vendor

in "app" directory there are three folders

app/dir1
app/dir2
app/dir3
app/etc

in "vendor" directory there are three folders as well

vendor/dir1
vendor/dir2
vendor/dir3

you would like to add to GIT repository only these directory