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After installing tools like phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6, you see the following warning:

The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

Here's a quick guide to fix it.

You will need EPEL repo to install php-mcrypt:

yum -y install http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm

yum -y install ...

Introduction

Nginx is a free, Open Source Web server. It is much more lightweight than Apache and it can be used as the main web server software or be set up as a reverse proxy for Apache.

NOTE - The LAMPd and MySQLd Cloud Apps already have PhpMyAdmin installed.

PHPMyAdmin is a Web based MySQL Administration tool. You might find it handy on a Cloud App that uses MySQL (Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki, PunBB, vTiger, SugarCRM, and WordPress). It doesn't come installed on a Cloud App by default, but installing it is not too ...

Need to install a GUI on your Cloud Server?

Here's a simple guide to install GNOME Desktop Environment on a CentOS 6 VPS  server.

Lets start!

Run the following commands to install the GNOME elements, tools and fonts:

yum groupinstall -y 'X Window System'
yum groupinstall -y 'Desktop'
yum groupinstall -y fonts

Wait until it ...

So, sometimes when you are creating your system you may enter the hostname wrong, or perhaps you want to change a system’s hostname temporarily. Either way, the way to do this is rather simple.