Category: Linux

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Setting up WordPress on Nginx

Just a quick post with a handy link for anyone looking to get WordPress running under Nginx (an awesome and much faster alternative to Apache!), one of the big differences between Nginx and Apache is the lack of .htaccess files and a different way of...

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How to Create Self-Signed SSL Certificates (Part 2)

In the first part of this series I showed how to create a Root Certificate that you can use to sign your own certificates and deploy to your users to allow you to quickly and cheaply secure internal websites or applications that use SSL without...

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How to Create Self-Signed SSL Certificates (Part 1)

As more and more programs realise the importance of security many are turning to SSL to secure connections between clients and servers anyone who has spent any time with SSL probably knows that SSL certificates can be quite expensive. However there are times when it...

How to Install Cygwin 1

How to Install Cygwin

Cygwin is an awesome tool that allows you to access a Linux-like environment from within Windows, you get access to almost all the same binaries as a normal Linux install but without having to run a full-fledged Linux distribution, this can be very handy for...