CentOS 6 is getting updates through November 30, 2020, but it’s getting more and more difficult to find newer packages for the operating system. If you want to use Certbot for obtaining and renewing Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates, you can use certbot-auto and let it handle the work for you, but I wanted to try only the PyPi package via pip.
... ➦If you’re managing an environment similar to a production and want to keep bots from indexing traffic, it’s customary to add a robots.txt file at the root of your website to disallow all. Instead of creating a two-line plain text file, you can do this with only nginx:
... ➦It’s commonplace that if you’ve run services on Linux and wanted something to auto-restart if it crashed, then you’ve looked at monit. You may not know, however, that systemd can provide the ability to restart a failed process without adding another daemon. In this example, we’ll keep Tomcat running if it stops for any reason, unless we systemctl stop tomcat
, by using a systemd override: