Welcome to fossdocs!

You will find here FOSS tutorials about the following topics:

• Technical communication

• Software documentation

• Front/backend web development

About the author:

Fayçal Alami-Hassani - @GlobalTech Translations - @gnufcl@fosstodon.org

• Technical communicator, translator and interpreter

• Markup: reStructuredText, Markdown, DocBook, XML

• Web development: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery

• Text editors: Nano, Atom, Sublime Text

• Version control: Git, CVS

• OS: Debian, Fedora

• Now learning: Docs-as-Code based on Antora with AsciiDoc

• Currently reading:

  Web Security for Developers - Real Threats, Practical Defense - Malcolm McDonald - No Starch Press - ISBN: 978-1-59327-994-3

  Eloquent JavaScript - A Modern Introduction to Programming - Marijn Haverbeke - No Starch Press - ISBN: 978-1-59327950-9

Note

This project is under active development. If you have any questions, please send an email to: info[@]globaltech-translations[.]com - PGP KeyID: 0x52D6AF10

Contents

• Migrating Joomla from shared hosting to an unmanaged VPS
  • Prerequisites
  • Performing the backup on your shared hosting account
  • Preparing your new VPS server to host your website
    • Option 1: Adding an entry to your hosts file
      • Clearing the DNS cache after updating your hosts file
    • Option 2: Adjusting the DNS records
    • Uploading the required files to your VPS server
    • Creating an empty MySQL database
    • Importing the SQL dump into your new database
    • Setting up a virtual host on your VPS
  • Restoring your Joomla website on the VPS
  • Installing Let’s Encrypt certificates with Certbot
• Hardening Apache on an unmanaged VPS
  • Prerequisites
  • Running Apache with an unprivileged user
  • Hiding your operating system and Apache version
  • Disabling open directory listings
  • Installing a web application firewall