Resources for Setting Up New Server

Upcloud and A2hosting are two fantastic VPS hosting.

SETTING UP NEW SERVER ON A2 HOSTING

A2 hosting was chosen because of:

1. Setting up LAMP stack

2. Accessing your account:

• SSH set up:

3. Back-up data (document from A2), also should see Khoi’s document on OE:

• To make a script to delete files older than X days when there is less than XGB left, see this:

4. Install EPEL repository on CentOS 7:

5. Change timezone on Linux shell:

6. Set default text Editor:

7. Obtaining free SSL certificate (from Let’sEncrypt):

• First: Make sure you have the your_site.com.conf file inside /etc/httpd/conf.d. Following the following website: ; For more elaborate see:

• Optional, here is another way the step above can be set up (Note: this website set up a bit different than the one above, specifically, the above website use /etc/httpd/conf.d/ instead of /etc/httpd/sites-enabled):

• danielromogroup.com and other sites on this server has been set up using /etc/httpd/conf.d/

8. Setting up owner of /var/www/html folders, to easy update website:

9. Creating groups, users; Assigning passwords:

• Assinging password and require immediate pass change after log in:

• Add Linux users to a group:

10. Force using https access using .htaccess:

11. Configure PHP to read .htaccess file on a CentOS 7 server

We need to modify the httpd.conf file:

In this file: after <Directory "/var/www/html">, modify AllowOverride None to AllowOverride Options.

Save the file (hit Esc, type :wq and then Enter)

Restart httpd service:

12. Dreamweaver:

• Creating Template:

13. Setting up firewall for CentOS 7:

• DON’T FORGET TO OPEN PORT 7822 FOR SSH WHILE USING A2 SERVER

• If forgot to open port 7822, follow this link:

14. MySQL/MariaDB

• Error that need to change packet size:

15. Installing phpMyAdmin

16. Working with tar files

17. Setting up multiple websites with multiple domains on the same server

• On current A2 hosting, the server config can be found in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

• Setting up multiple Let’sEncrypt certificates for multiple hosts on the same server: (this is for Ubuntu)

• • After that use “/usr/local/sbin/certbot --apache -d example.com -d ” . The content of site2.com.conf file will be automatically changed. Here is example of the content of site2.com.conf after running the “certbot-auto…”

• Read here for more info about a set up a conf file for SSL certificate:

18. Working with WordPress

• Initial Install:

  • From A2:

  • WP security, from A2 hosting:

19. Setting up Booked Scheduler

• See here for official guide:

• Note: when change the info in the config.php file, make sure to change the:

  1. Install password