Author: Rumi

Hasan T. Emdad is an ICT Solution Architect, Project Manager with 12+ year expertise in HW selection, OS expertise on Linux and MS, Supervising Application SW on Pearl, Java, dot Net and PHP with DB experience of MySQL, Postgre, MS and Oracle. He was involved in setting up several Turn Key ICT including Telecom based projects on various government and autonomous bodies in the country. Developed more than 50 applications running with different operators and users. Managing a team of more than 10 in-house engineers and developers and manages an outsourcing team experts and contributors. Very recently engineered Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) on Enterperise and Root Certifying Authority and deployed scalable Cloud Computing and Managed Services. He has post graduated (MBA) from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Nginx wordpress fancy URL or permalink fixing

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If your wordpress is installed in the root directory i.e. yourdomain.com, you can use the following directives- location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } # Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests. rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent; location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ { expires max; log_not_found off; } Or if your wordpress is…

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Install nginx using yum on CentOS or SL Linux

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Step #1: Install nginx repo Type the following wget command to install nginx yum configuration file: # cd /tmp CentOS Linux v6.x user type the following command: # wget http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm RHEL v6.x user type the following command: # wget http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-rhel-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh nginx-release-rhel-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm

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Install htop on CentOS 5 or 6

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Install RPM for CentOS 5.x 32-BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i686.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.i386.rpm 64BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm Install RPM for CentOS 6.x 32-BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.i386.rpm 64BIT wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm Install htop in CentOS Using YUM Once the repository is installed, all you need to do…

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How to clear the yum cache

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When a package is downloaded, installed and is removed there is a chance that the package may still be saved/stored in the yum’s cache. So to clean all the cached packages from the enabled repository cache directory, login as root and execute the following: yum clean packages To purge the…

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Resetting CentOS 5 Root Password

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If you have forgotten the root password it is possible to set a new one as follows: Interrupt the boot at the GRUB stage and boot to runlevel 1, AKA single user mode. Interrupt GRUB by typing a character such as "space" then append to the kernel line by typing…

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