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Generate  your SSL CSR to give your SSL provider NOTES: Common name is the DOMAIN NAME then write copy the whole block including the last whitespaces from —-begin certificate request—– key —– end certificate request —– > cert_chain.crt paste that in to your SSL provied including whitespaces. Then when you followed the steps and downloaded …

To enable it, do: (it’s an interactive dialog) which will create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades with the following contents: APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists “1”; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade “1”; to make sure that the server reboots after an important upgrade you need to adjust a line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades make sure this line is set to true and not commented out: be aware that this …

Create DB for WP time to create our config file fill in the databasename, user and password that you just created with mysql/mariadb. exit and save. Now go go into your enginx config file and configure it for WordPress: replace with // OPTIONAL STEP if you gonna have SSL on your site you might as …

check how many worker_processes you got: make a backup: change worker_processes to the number you got earlier. and for the gzip all you have to do is uncomment this line by removing #: uncomment as well. let the other commands be by default. exit and save ctrl x + y //cache// now lets add this …

Once again lets do a backup of the config file we are about to configure: open the file up to configure: make the following changes Restart the Nginx service for changes to take effect with:

Now its time to adjust a few settings int the config. Start with making a backup in case you mess something up and want to revert. Now its time to adjust a few settings in the config. One is REALLY important that you configure for security reasons. to do this open up the config with> …

BE PATIENT HERE: It will temporarily stop mariadb and the $ will show but dont write anything and be patient a few seconds later the installation will continue and the server will startup. when its over it will end with Processing triggers for libc-bin …. and show $ It will prompt us for a password, …

fail2ban comes with basic configuration so we will leave it like this for now.

Command may disrupt existing ssh connections. Proceed with operation (y|n)?   y Then you will get a message that Firewall is active and enabled on system startup. To check the status of UFW: