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Setting Up Apache WebDAV Storage With LDAP Authentication

Setting Up Apache WebDAV Storage With LDAP Authentication

Hey there! Let’s talk about WebDAV today. If you don’t know what WebDAV is, I recommend you to read this wiki. It stands for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is a set of extensions to HTTP that facilitates collaborative editing and file management. In a nutshell, it enables write permission to the users, who used to have only read access afforded by HTTP. Nowadays, it can also be utilized by collaboration and versioning systems like SVN and GIT. Now, without…

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PHP7 – What’s New and Better in PHP?

PHP7 – What’s New and Better in PHP?

In some of my previous posts, I discussed about using PHP as part of LAMP for web application development. Well, if you haven’t noticed it already, when I said PHP, I was talking about PHP version 5 or 5.x. However, now I’m going to specifically talk about PHP7 and what new features it brings to the table. PHP History PHP5, which is the most popular and most widely used PHP version, was introduced in 2004 and immediately after its launch, development of…

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LAMP-Securing Your Web Server With SSL

LAMP-Securing Your Web Server With SSL

Hello and welcome! In my previous post on LAMP web server, I discussed about its installation and configuration inside CentOS environment. Today, I’m writing on how to setup SSL certificate in our website and other security related configurations as well. Installing SSL Certificate First of all, let’s install mod_ssl package from MOD Security. It’s done in CentOS as follows: Then, let’s create a directory where we’ll keep our SSL certificates. Now, let’s generate self-signed certificate for our web server. Here, openssl is…

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LAMP- Installation and Configuration in CentOS 7

LAMP- Installation and Configuration in CentOS 7

Hello! Today, let’s install and configure a web server (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP = LAMP) in CentOS7 platform. I think this subject can be very helpful to web developers, students and system administrators. Without any adieu, let’s get started with the installation and configuration. Installation of CentOS 7 I’ve already written blogs on installation and initial configuration of CentOS 7 operating system in my previous posts. You can refer to these blog posts: Creating VM in VMware…

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