There are several ways on how to check what version of CentOS is running on your system. The simplest way to check for the CentOS version number is to execute the cat /etc/centos-release command. Identifying the accurate CentOS version may be required to help you or your support team to troubleshoot your CentOS system.
This guide will show how to install and configure a DNS Server in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 in caching mode only or as single DNS Server, no master-slave configuration. A reverse and forward zone example is provided.
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Minecraft is still a popular game these days. The simplicity of its graphics had an appeal on gamers of all ages and there are many hundreds of thousands of players worldwide, most of them playing on online servers. But did you know you can create your own Minecraft server using RedHat Enterprise Linux 8? Here is a how to teaching you exactly how to do it.
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Most IPs these days are automatically assigned through DHCP by either your ISP or your home router. But there may come a time when you wish to opt for a static IP address and you will want to change it. It may be that you are configuring a home LAN and you don't want to use DHCP or simply want a static IP address that you can access from outside your home. In this tutorial we will learn how we can change the IP address in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Linus system.
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Virtualization and emulation software is big these days. With cheaper RAM memory comes the possibility to ditch dual-booting and install several operating systems in QEMU or VMWare and use them alternatively whenever you feel like it. Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 is fresh you might want to test it in VMWare before installing it on its own partition. So here is a guide to do just that.
In this tutorial you will learn:Node.js is a Javascript runtime environment based on the V8 open source engine made by Google and originally used in Chrome. Thanks to Node.js we can run Javascript outside of the browser context, and use it also like a server-side scripting language, thus creating an entire web application around it. In this tutorial we will see how to install Node.js in the RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 distribution.
Xdebug is great for debugging your PHP code in real time. There are a few ways to install it on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8, but the simplest and most straightforward one utilizes packages found right in RHEL's repos.
In this tutorial you will learn:IT admins rely on Puppet to manage complex deployments every day. If your network is built on Red Hat systems, you're going to need to install Puppet on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8. Puppet Labs provides a repository and packages, so the whole thing should be relatively hassle free.
In this tutorial you will learn:There are plenty of reasons why you'd need to set up virtual network interfaces on a RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 server or workstation. The process has changed a bit since RHEL 7, but it's still fairly straightforward.
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All modern linux distributions organize software in packages which contain applications binaries, files, metadata and information about the package dependencies, possible conflicts with other packages etc. The core Rhel package manager is called rpm itself, and it is the tool used also by dnf, the higher level package manager, which is capable to manage dependencies. A relatively recent technology , flatpak, let us install also sandboxed applications together with their runtimes.
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PHP-mbstring is used by a ton of popular applications, including WordPress. Installing it on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 isn't as straightforward is it probably should be, but it's definitely not difficult.
The easiest and recommended way to install PHP-mbstring on RHEL 8 / CentoOS 8 is to dnf command and perform the php-mbstring package installation from a standard RHEL 8 / CentoOS repository. You can also install it directly from the Remi repository, which provides tons of other great PHP packages.
There are many cases in which we may want to set a static IP for a network interface. In RHEL 8 / CentOS 8, the network connections are managed by the NetworkManager daemon, so in this tutorial we see how we can perform such task by editing an interface file directly, by using a command line utility, nmcli, or via a text user interface, nmtui.
PhpMyAdmin is a php web application which let us manage a MariaDB/MySQL database from an intuitive graphical interface. The application is not provided in the RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 official repositories, and is usually installed from third party sources like EPEL. Epel-8 is, however, not yet available, so in this tutorial we will see how to fetch the upstream phpMyAdmin code and install it on our system "manually".
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