Category: RockyLinux
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Setting Up Passwordless SSH Login between a Client and Two Servers
Setting up passwordless SSH login with key pairs makes connecting to your servers both quicker and more secure, since you’re no longer typing a password every time or relying on one to keep people out. This guide covers generating a key on your client machine and configuring passwordless logins to two separate servers. Step 1:…
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Installing phpMyAdmin and WordPress on Rocky Linux
This guide walks through installing phpMyAdmin and WordPress on Rocky Linux, giving you a database you can manage from the browser and a working WordPress site on top of it. Adjust the paths, IP addresses, and database names to match your own setup as you go. It assumes you’ve already got a LAMP stack (Linux,…
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Setting Up a Static IP on Rocky Linux
This guide walks through setting up an Ethernet connection with a static IP on Rocky Linux, step by step. Adjust the IP address and device name to match your own setup as you go, since the interface name in particular varies from one machine to the next. Step 1: Check NetworkManager is Running Rocky Linux…
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Setting up LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) on Rocky Linux
This guide walks through setting up a full LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) on Rocky Linux 8. The steps are much the same on other releases and on RHEL, so just adjust the PHP and MariaDB versions to suit if you’re on something different. Prerequisites You’ll need a user with sudo privileges, which on…
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Upgrading to PHP 8.2 on RHEL/RockyLinux
This guide covers upgrading to PHP 8.2 on RHEL and Rocky Linux. The default PHP that ships in the base repositories is usually an older version, so the approach here is to pull PHP 8.2 from the REMI repository, which packages current PHP releases for enterprise Linux, and then install the modules a typical web…
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Securely Access Your Home Server Using Cloudflare and a Domain
If you’re running a service at home, like Nextcloud, and want to reach it securely from anywhere without opening ports on your router, a Cloudflare Tunnel is one of the cleanest ways to do it. The cloudflared daemon makes an outbound connection to Cloudflare, so your server stays reachable through your own domain over HTTPS,…