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How to install Drupal on Ubuntu 22.04

Drupal is an open-source content management system (CMS). It allows its users to create, manage, and publish digital content, such as websites, blogs, and online applications. Drupal enables its users to build websites for many different use cases. Key features of Drupal include: 1. Modular architecture, which allows users to

How to install Ghost on Ubuntu 22.04

Ghost is an open-source content management system (CMS). It was designed to be used for the creation of blogs and online publications. Due to this, it is quite popular between bloggers and writers who want to primarily focus on content creation and presentation. It provides a clean and intuitive user

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How to install Elastic (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 22.04

What is Elastic? Often referred to as ELK, Elastic Stack, or Elastic Search /on one of its components/ it is a set of three open-source software products.: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. This combination is actually a very powerful toolset used for collecting, processing, storing, searching, analyzing, and visualizing large volumes

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How to install Joomla 4 on AlmaLinux 9

Joomla is an open-source content management system (CMS). It allows you to build and manage websites and online applications. Some of its noticeable features are: 1. User-friendly Interface, which is also suitable for people with less technical expertise. 2. A wide range of extensions, plugins, and templates for website customization

How to install a LEMP stack on AlmaLinux 9

The LEMP stack is a popular web development platform that consists of four main components: Linux operating system, Nginx web server, MySQL database, and PHP. It is a combination of software that is used together to run dynamic websites and web apps on a server - a powerful web development

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How to use GParted for partition modification on a KVM VPS

GParted stands for GNOME Partition Editor. It is a free disk partitioning tool allowing users to manage and modify disk partitions. GParted is commonly used for creating, resizing, moving, and deleting partitions. This tutorial will show you how to extend your partition or create an entirely new one via a

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How to get a free Let's Encrypt SSL via CertBot on Apache

An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a digital certificate that enables the establishment of a secure encrypted connection between a web server and a web browser. It ensures that the transmitted data remains private and cannot be intercepted or tampered with by unauthorized malicious parties. An SSL certificate enables

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How to use Git: An Intro to common commands

GIT is a widely used distributed version control system that allows a team of developers to work on the same project simultaneously. This allows them to collaborate on a project efficiently. This tutorial serves as a continuation of our Git tutorial here. Consider it as a reference to common Git

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How to install and configure GIT on Linux

GIT is a widely used distributed version control system that allows a team of developers to work on the same project simultaneously. This allows them to collaborate on a project efficiently. In this tutorial, we will familiarize you with the basics of GIT, install it, configure it, and provide you

How to install MetaTrader 5 on Ubuntu 22.04

MetaTrader is a popular trading platform used for monitoring and accessing financial markets. MetaTrader provides multiple tools for trading various financial instruments like currencies, stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. It offers a user-friendly interface that allows traders to analyze market data, execute trades, and manage their accounts. MetaTrader is famous due

How to install Wine on Ubuntu 22.04

WINE is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, and BSD. WINE works by providing a set of libraries that allow Windows applications to run natively on non-Windows systems. By using WINE, you can install and run many Windows applications directly on

How to install and configure Samba on Ubuntu 22.04

Samba is an open-source software that enables file sharing between Linux-based systems and Windows systems. It allows Windows clients to access shared resources on Linux/Unix servers, and vice versa. Samba implements the SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System) protocol, which is the standard protocol used by

How to Use Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a CLI tool that allows you to run and manage multi-container Docker applications. It simplifies the process of running and coordinating multiple Docker containers as a single service. Docker Compose allows you to define the configuration for your application's services, networks, and volumes in a

How to create Docker images

Docker images are a component of containerized applications. They are a convenient way to package an application with its dependencies into a package that can be shared and deployed across different environments. If this is your first encounter with Docker, we advise checking our other tutorials first. They will guide

How to run a Docker container

Docker containers are built from Docker images, which are pulled from Docker Hub. Docker Hub is a registry managed by Docker. You are able to host your Docker image on Docker Hub, so most applications and Linux distributions you’ll need will have images hosted there. To work with Docker