Tutorials

Below is list of tutorials that can help you with different aspects:

• Amazon AWS
  • Amazon ELB and multi-domain SAN/SSL Setup
  • Auto Scaling
  • Change Instance Type in AutoScaling
• Backup
  • Duplicity + Amazon S3
• Benchmark
  • apachebench
  • httperf
  • Siege
• CDN
  • Amazon Cloudfront CDN with W3 Total Cache WordPress
  • CDN.NET Configuration with W3 Total Cache WordPress
  • CDN77 Configuration with W3 Total Cache WordPress
• Composer and WordPress
  • Getting Started
  • Git and File-System Layout (non-default setup)
  • Version Constraints
  • Managing Themes and Plugins (for entire WordPress site)
  • Updating Themes and Plugins (for entire WordPress site)
  • Adding Composer Support to Your Own Themes and Plugins (for developers)
  • Using Composer to Manage Own Theme/Plugin Dependencies (for developers)
• Docker and WordPress [WIP]
  • Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes
    • WordPress with Kubernetes using Minikube and Helm on localhost (MacOS)
• Git
  • Git – Resolve Merge Conflicts
  • First time Git setup
  • Forking the Git
  • Mandatory stages in Git
• Gitlab
  • Gitlab-CE
  • gitlab-ci-multi-runner
• KVM
  • Convert qcow2 to raw format
  • Enable virtio for existing VM’s
• Mac
  • Brew’ing PHP, MySQL & Nginx on Mac OS X
• Monitoring
  • Latest Monit setup on Ubuntu
  • NewRelic Setup for Ubuntu Server with PHP, FPM, Nginx and MySQL
• node.js
  • Installing ghost with nginx proxy-cache
  • Latest node.js & npm installation on Ubuntu 12.04
• Plesk
  • List Mailboxes Storage and Passwords
• Redis
• Standards
  • PHP
    • Code Sniffer
• Vagrant
• wpcli
  • Finding a faulty plugin
  • wp profile command
• Linux
  • Assigning Multiple IP Addresses to Single LAN Card
  • Disable IPv6 on Ubuntu 12.04
  • dsh – distributed shell
  • fdupes – find & replace duplicate files with hardlinks
  • GPG Keys Cheatsheet
  • Increase “Open Files Limit”
  • kill all php, nginx, mysql or any kind of processes
  • Passwordless Authentication for SSH
  • Screen
  • search replace in multiple files useing grep xargs sed
  • Setup sftp
  • sysctl.conf
  • Timezone Sync
  • Using Google Public DNS on Ubuntu Server
  • Using openssl to match private key, cerificate and CSR
  • Configure Postfix to Use Gmail SMTP on Ubuntu
  • Logrotate Example for Custom Logs
  • PHP 5.5, MySQL, Postfix, Nginx and WordPress on Ubuntu
  • Serverdensity
  • Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04
  • Using find and sed to replace strings in multiple files
  • Webmin
• Apache – Turn On/Off Directory Listing
• Enabling FastCGI on MediaTemple
• Manage SVN Users with htpasswd
• Mysql
  • .my.cnf – mysql user & password
  • Analyse slow-query-log using Anemometer
  • Improving MySQL Query Cache
  • MySQL Query Profiling
  • Reset MySQL root password
  • tuning-primer.sh – an alternative for mysqltuner
  • Using MariaDB 10
  • Install/Upgrade to MySQL 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Change WordPress Domain Name
  • Character Sets and Collations
  • Enable innodb_file_per_table
  • Enable Remote Access (Grant)
  • Installing Percona Toolkit
  • Using tmpfs for temporary folder creation
  • YARPP and InnoDB
  • Convert MyISAM to InnoDB
  • Using tmpfs for mysqldump & mysqlimport
  • Convert from INNODB to MYISAM
  • Analyse slow-query-log using mysqldumpslow & pt-query-digest
  • mysqlcheck with cron to optimize automatically
  • Using MySQLTuner to Optimize MySQL configuration
• Emails
  • Checking FQDN, Reverse-DNS/PTR, MX record
  • Clients
    • Apple Mail
    • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • DKIM with Postfix
  • Postfix Queue Management
  • RoundCube
    • Forwarding all mails to other email id
  • Server Setup
    • Packages & Conventions
    • Postfix, Dovecot, ViMbAdmin, RoundCube
    • Amavis, Spamassassin & ClamAV Setup
    • Sieve Mail Filtering Setup
    • Mail-Server Testing
      • Antivirus Tests
      • IMAP Tests
      • POP Tests
      • SMTP Tests
      • Spam Tests
    • Mailserver Port Numbers
  • Setup OpenDKIM
  • SPF Records
  • swaks – SMTP test tool
  • Using larch for mail transfer between imap/gmail servers
  • Debugging Postfix Config, Mail Logs & more
  • Increasing Attachment Size in Posfix
• Nginx
  • Adding $upstream_cache_status in HTTP Response Headers
  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancer and Forwarding Real-IP Nginx
  • Block wp-login.php bruteforce attack
  • Configuring HTTP/2 Server Push
  • Enable gzip compression
  • fail2ban
  • Let’s Encrypt with EasyEngine
  • Nginx’s Open file cache
  • Serving fonts with correct mime types
  • SSL – PCI compliance and performance optimization
  • Troubleshooting
    • Error: pcre_compile() failed: unrecognized character after
    • [emerg]: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
  • Tweaking fastcgi-buffers
  • Using $upstream_cache_status in access.log
  • Using Pagespeed
  • Weak Diffie Hellman Logjam Attack Fix
  • Website access restriction using nginx
  • Enable Nginx Status Page
  • Forwarding Visitor’s Real-IP + Nginx Proxy/Fastcgi backend correctly
  • Parsing access.log and error.logs using linux commands
  • Debugging Nginx Configuration
  • Nginx config for www to non-www and non-www to www redirection
  • Optimizing Nginx Configuration
  • Rewrite Rules for vBulletin SEO-friendly permalinks
• PHP
  • Directly connect to PHP-FPM
  • Generating core-dump for php5-fpm
  • GeoIP
  • Having php5 and php7 on same system.
  • Install Xdebug and configure it with webgrind
  • Installation of PHP Code Review Tools
  • memcache
  • PHP’s Zend Opcache Config & Web Viewer
  • Setting Sqlite support with PHP
  • Using HHVM with PHP-FPM Fallback
  • Using Redis for PHP Sessions on Ubuntu Server
  • Installing PhpMyAdmin Quickly
  • Moving PHP’s session storage to tmpfs
  • Install Xdebug and configure it with Netbeans
  • Nginx – Enable PHP-FPM Status Page
  • PHP-FPM: Socket vs TCP/IP and sysctl tweaking
  • APC Cache Optimization & Monitoring Using Web Interface
  • Checking if PHP/WordPress can send mails
  • Debugging PHP Scripts Using slow_log and more
  • Increase file upload size limit in PHP-Nginx
  • Increase PHP script execution time with Nginx
• ActiveCollab with Nginx + APC Cache
• WordPress
  • Performance Optimization
  • Remove Query string of css/js files
  • Setup ElasticSearch with ElasticPress
  • Using Redis for WordPress Object-Cache
  • WooCommerce Window Shopping Caching Technique
  • Moving WordPress To New Server (Faster)
  • Better wp-cron using linux’s crontab
  • 404 error- Page not Found!!!
  • Debugging WordPress with Nginx