How to Set or Change Hostname in Fedora Linux
Setting up hostname is an important task when you are installing the operating system. Hostnames are invented to make human life easy. When you have 100’s of machines in your network it is not easy
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How to Host a Website on NGINX Web Server
NGINX (pronounced as Engine-X) is a free and open-source web server software, load balancer, and reverse proxy optimized for very high performance and stability. NGINX offers low memory usage and high concurrency — which is
How to Host a Website on an Apache Web Server
The Apache HTTP Server (commonly referred to simply as Apache), is a free and open-source web server software brought to you by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache has been around for more than 2 decades
How to Install VirtualBox in Different Linux Distributions
Before installing Virtualbox, check if virtualization is enabled in BIOS. During bootup press the bios key and navigate through the bios option to enable/disable virtualization. Depending upon your machine product, the bios key may vary.
Getting Started with VirtualBox in Linux – Part 1
LinuxShellTips is happy to present a series on oracle VirtualBox, the most popular open-source (GPL V2) cross-platform hosted hypervisor in the market that supports X86, AMD/Intel virtualization. In this series, we will show all the
How to Generate Self-Signed SSL Certificates using OpenSSL
Ideally, SSL certificates are issued by publicly trusted certificate authorities (e.g. Let’s Encrypt, Comodo, Verisign) to provide authentication and encryption on the internet. However, you could obtain an SSL certificate without going through a third-party
How to Add a New Device to BTRFS File System in Linux
BTRFS – an abbreviation for the B-tree file system, is a modern Linux file system and logical volume manager optimized for fault tolerance, error detection, and repair. BTRFS uses the Copy on Write (CoW) principle
How to Create an RPM Package from a Tarball
RPM, Originally a Red Hat Package Manager, is a free and open-source package management system was created for use in Red Hat Linux. However, RPM is used in many Linux distributions such as CentOS, Fedora,
How to Install Software from Source in Linux
The most widely used Linux distributions, for example, Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, and many more, have a packaging system for distribution software. Binaries and configuration files of software are bundled in a package, which is
4 Ways to Create New File in Linux
Linux based operating systems are known for their users’ heavy use of command line for performing not only complicated automation but also the most trivial of tasks. However, with the steady growth of Linux distributions