Generate CSR and Private Key in Plesk

Certificate Signing Request ( CSR ) is a message sent from an applicant to a Certificate Authority in order to apply for a digital identity certificate.

Before creating a CSR, the applicant first generates a key pair, keeping the private key secret. The CSR contains information identifying the applicant (such as a distinguished name in the case of an X.509 certificate) which must be signed using the applicant’s private key. The CSR also contains the public key chosen by the applicant. The CSR may be accompanied by other credentials or proofs of identity required by the certificate authority, and the certificate authority may contact the applicant for further information.

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Configure SSH Key based authentication from Linux and Windows system

Configure SSh Key based authentication from Linux and Windows-system

Secure Shell (SSH)

Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. When working with a Linux server, chances are, you will spend most of your time in a terminal session connected to your server through SSH. There are different ways to login into the server using ssh and here I am discussing about the ssh key based authentication.

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Install and Configure Mod-Pagespeed on Linux servers

Mod-Pagespeed is an Apache/Nginx (web-server) module to speed up your website by applying certain filters that automatically optimize files to reducing number of times the browser has to make to grab web files, to reduce the size of those files and to optimize the length those files are cached. This article we will show you how to install and configure Google‘s mod-pagespeed module for Apache and Nginx web servers in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu systems.

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How to change PHP handler from Server Backend

PHP handler means the way apache software on the server serves PHP scripts. On cPanel/WHM Servers there are four PHP handlers : SuPHP, DSO, CGI, FastCGI. suPHP is the default handler on cPanel/WHM Servers. You might be familiar with switching the PHP handler from Web Host Manager(WHM) but most of us are not sure how to do the same from server backend. This article will enlighten how to switch PHP handler on a cPanel/WHM Server.

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Monitoring tool, Munin Installation on Centos7

Munin is a networked opensource resource monitoring tool that can be used to monitor servers and their services. It displays information gathered from the system as graphs through a web based interface. Here I am referring the steps for munin installation. 

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How to harden wordpress

[huge_it_share]Almost 75% of websites and blogs are built in wordpress which is the mostly used CMS(Content Management System) . But unfortunately websites that use wordpress are mostly prone to attacks and vulnerabilities .So lets see how we can harden wordpress to resist the attacks .

As we know wordpress is a free tool .So anyone can try installing it .The same thing is the reason for most of the wordpress attack since anyone can install it everyone know the basic settings that we are going to use in our wordpress including the hackers .This is one of the main reasons hackers get into the because they know the default settings we are going to use .So one main thing we should do is change everything as possible from default settings in wordpress .Here I will be pointing some of the main things you can do to protect your wordpress sites .

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Monit how to install & Configure on CentOS 7/RHEL 7

Monit is utility or package we usually used in Linux machines for managing and monitoring service running in the Linux machines. For example services like HTTPD, MySQL etc. Monit can start a process if it does not run, restart a process if it does not respond and stop a process if it uses too much … Read more

cPanel to Plesk – How to Migrate a hosting account ?

cPanel to Plesk Migration

Migration from cPanel to Plesk Plesk and cPanel have different business models and features, requiring the conversion of migrated objects during deployment on the destination server. I am referring the way to migrate a cPanel hosting account to Plesk For example: Parked domains in  cPanel converts to domain aliases in Plesk. Some objects and settings will not … Read more