Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and installing NGINX (pronounced “Engine X”) in its place. Why would we want to replace the Apache web server with NGINX? […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX
cache, caching, epel, LEMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, nginx, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, redis, ssl, virtual hosting 
July 15, 2019 @ 7:58 am, by Ryan Flowers CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis
apache, epel, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, redis, ssl, virtual hosting July 1, 2019 @ 7:10 am, by Ryan Flowers In the previous CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorials, we configured a LAMP stack, secured it with Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, and installed WordPress with WP-CLI. Here in Part 5 we’re going to up our game just a bit more by installing server side caching with a program called Redis. Then we’ll configure WordPress to use […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli
apache, cerbot, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, ssl, virtual hosting, wordpress, wp-cli June 15, 2019 @ 6:00 am, by Ryan Flowers Welcome to the fourth installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series.In Part 1 and Part 2 we configured a LAMP server with PHP-FPM running PHP 7.3 and a modern version of MariaDB. Then we configured a single VirtualHost for hosting a website, and in Part 3 configured that VirtualHost to […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let’s Encrypt SSL
apache, cerbot, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, ssl, virtual hosting June 13, 2019 @ 6:10 am, by Ryan Flowers Welcome to the third installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series. This tutorial builds on the work done in Part 1 and Part 2, so if you haven’t checked them out, now’s a good time. In this installment we’re going to secure our new Virtual Host (lowend-tutorial.tld) with a Let’s Encrypt […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]
apache, LAMP, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, virtual hosting June 3, 2019 @ 5:05 am, by Ryan Flowers In Part 1 of this Tutorial, we discussed why we decided to build a LAMP server instead of getting one pre-configured via a control panel such as cPanel or Virtualmin. We configured Remi’s repository for PHP and installed PHP 7.3 and PHP-FPM. We also got the latest version of MariaDB installed and filled in some […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]
apache, LAMP, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, virtual hosting June 3, 2019 @ 5:04 am, by Ryan Flowers Welcome to another LowEndBox Linux tutorial! In this post we’re going to design and configure a high performance server that will allow you to run multiple websites using the latest software available. Our server will be based on CentOS 7 Linux, Apache 2.4, MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) and PHP 7.3. This combination of software […]
Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Magento is one of the worlds leading e-commerce CMS solutions and is used by over 200K websites. What makes Magento such an appealing e-commerce CMS is that Magento offers a free, community edition of their platform. Anyone with some Linux knowledge and access to a modest virtual machine can get their online store up and […]
Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on CentOS 7.6
Introduction Magento is one of the worlds leading e-commerce CMS solutions and is used by over 200K websites. What makes Magento such an appealing e-commerce CMS is that Magento offers a free, community edition of their platform. Anyone with some Linux knowledge and access to a modest virtual machine can get their online store up […]
Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on Debian Stretch
Magento is one of the worlds leading e-commerce CMS solutions and is used by over 200K websites. What makes Magento such an appealing e-commerce CMS is that Magento offers a free, community edition of their platform. Anyone with some Linux knowledge and access to a modest virtual machine can get their online store up and […]