CentOS 7 updated repo after its EOL Rumi, July 26, 2024 mirrorlist.centos.org doesn’t exists anymore. So, your default repor wwith yum doesn’t work. Try using the following processes, it worked for me, hope this works for others as well. sed -i s/mirror.centos.org/vault.centos.org/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo sed -i s/^#.*baseurl=http/baseurl=http/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo sed -i s/^mirrorlist=http/#mirrorlist=http/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo Ref: https://serverfault.com/questions/1161816/mirrorlist-centos-org-no-longer-resolve Continue Reading
reset root password on CentOS 7 Rumi, January 10, 2024 You need to have a console access for running this operation. 1. Inside java or HTML5 console, please reboot your server and wait for the GRUB menu 2. Inside the GRUB menu select your first entry and press “E” key to edit. 3. Find a line with ro and change it to rw Continue Reading
Install PHPIPAM using Docker on CentOS 7 Rumi, January 7, 2024 Update Docker Package Database. In a terminal window, type: sudo yum check-update Remove if any docker is preinstalled with your OS- sudo yum remove docker docker-client docker-client-latest docker-common docker-latest docker-latest-logrotate docker-logrotate docker-selinux docker-engine-selinux docker-engine Install the Dependencies sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2 The –y switch indicates to the yum… Continue Reading
Upgrading PHP 7.2 to 7.4 for WHMCS on CentOS 7 Rumi, October 30, 2023October 30, 2023 Lately I needed an update of PHP (7.2 to 7.4) on my WHMCS CentOS 7 built box- here’re the process that I followed. But before that, I’m sharing my original post on setting up WHMCS on CentOS 7 Since I used remi repository to install version 7.2, I’ll be doing… Continue Reading
Install Plex on CentOS 7 Rumi, September 15, 2023 Was just playing around. It’s a great home entertainment tool indeed. Method-1: Creating repository and using Yum To enable the Plex repository open your text editor and create a new YUM repository configuration file named plex.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory: [PlexRepo] name=PlexRepo baseurl=https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/rpm/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgkey=https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key gpgcheck=1 Method-2: Installation using RPM download… Continue Reading
Create A Network Bridge on CentOS 7 Rumi, September 1, 2023 Install Module CentOS 7 comes with bridging module loaded on system boot by default. Use the following command to verify whether the module is loaded or not. # modinfo bridge filename: /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64/kernel/net/bridge/bridge.ko alias: rtnl-link-bridge version: 2.3 license: GPL rhelversion: 7.2 srcversion: 905847C53FF43DEFAA0EB3C depends: stp,llc intree: Y vermagic: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions… Continue Reading
Install transmission on Centos 7 Rumi, August 22, 2023 Step 1. First, you need to enable the EPEL repository on your system. yum install epel-release yum -y update Step 2. Installing Transmission on CentOS 7. Just run the following command to install Transmission: yum install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon Once complete, you can verify Transmission is installed by running the… Continue Reading
Getting started with Xen Virtualization On CentOS 7.x Rumi, June 24, 2023 Welcome to Getting started with Xen Virtualization On CentOS 7.x. Xen is an open-source bare-metal hypervisor which allows you to run different operating systems in parallel on a single host machine. This type of hypervisor is normally referred to as a hypervisortype 1 in Virtualization world. Meltdown and Spectre Mitigation on Xen 6.5 and… Continue Reading
CentOS 7 Server Installation with Software RAID Rumi, September 4, 2022 Install the Operating System Boot from the USB flash drive and select Install CentOS 7 When the welcome screen of the CentOS installer appears, choose your language and just click on Continue Continue Reading
Install MySQL 5.7 on CentOS 7 Rumi, August 10, 2022 Preqrequsite: It’s better to have installed development tools and disable NetworkManager for a produciton envrionment. You can optionally follow the steps- Disabling NetworkManager: systemctl stop NetworkManager systemctl disable NetworkManager Install Development Tools: yum group install “Development Tools” Remove MariaDB pre-installed libraries- yum -y remove mariadb-libs Enable MySQL Repository First of… Continue Reading