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Easy Way to Replace or Install Apache Tomcat SSL Certificate
In working with a client recently, I was tasked with replacing an SSL certificate in Apache Tomcat, specifically for a JIRA install. If you have ever done this before, you know that it can be a royal PITA as there…
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Connect Vaultpress AWS EC2 instance
For those that blog with WordPress and want to consider a good backup solution for their blog, there are a few options out there. However, one that is pretty straightforward and seamless is Vaultpress. It takes the heavy lifting out…
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How to block ports with Cloudflare
If you are utilizing Cloudflare as a reverse proxy service for your backend webserver, you may desire to have Cloudflare block certain ports back to your webserver. Cloudlfare passes along more ports than just 80 and 443 by default as…
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Nginx configuration, security, and other information
Nginx is rapidly gaining popularity in the WebHosting world, especially since performance, speed, and scaling are becoming ever more important. Nginx is capable of handling a large amount of concurrent connections with a fair amount of ease. It is used…
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Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…
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How to properly setup nginx local authentication
If you have a website running on nginx and you want to make sure the content is not viewable by anyone that isn’t authenticated, the easiest way to set this up is to setup local authentication. Let us take a…
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How to add Apple icons in Genesis wordpress child theme
A really cool thing to do for your end user is add Apple icons in Genesis wordpress child theme so that if they choose to add your site to their home screen using the “add to home screen” option in Safari, their…
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Google page speed module nginx delete cache
Google page speed module nginx is a great way to speed up your website speed and handle more requests. There are tons of caching plugins out there especially for wordpress and other popular CMS systems, however, Google’s pagespeed functions at…
