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Making the following update to your Nginx .conf file will prevent your website from being accessed directly by it’s IP address You’ll need to create a new server block and configure it such that any requests to the servers IP address will instead be redirected to the domain name. Now, when a request is made…

Question How to configure the passive ports range for ProFTPd on a server behind a firewall? Answer Note: When configuring the passive port range, a selected port range must be in the non-privileged range (e.g., greater than or equal to 1024). It is strongly recommended that the chosen range should be large enough to handle…

Listing sizes in AWS S3 Buckets Getting the whole bucket size aws s3 ls s3://$BUCKETNAME/ –recursive –human-readable –summarize | tail -n2 Tail is used because otherwise all files will be printed on screen (but you may want that for some reason). Getting the size of a specific directory/file You just need to add the path…

In this article, we will explain swap space, and learn how to create swap space using a swap file in Linux: this is important in case we don’t have a swap partition created on the hard disk. Swap space/partition is space on a disk created for use by the operating system when memory has been…

This guide will show you how to extend or resize an ext2/3/4 and XFS File System without LVM at runtime. This could be a root partition configured with ext2/3/4 or XFS filesystem but without any LVM configured. Step 1: Check your current root disk capacity For this demonstration, I have a CentOS 7 VM with…