Webdock Documentation

Part 11: A Step-by-Step Guide to Configure Nginx Logs

An article on how to set up logging in Nginx

Part 10: How to Set-up PHP with FastCGI in Nginx

Offload processing PHP pages to PHP-FPM using FastCGI in Nginx

Part 9: How Nginx Maps Files to Domains and Creates Pretty URLs

Explaining the mechanism of NGINX mapping and demystifying pretty URLs

Part 8: Nginx Gateway: How It Delivers Your Requests to Backend for Processing

NGINX is a powerful web server that can act as a gateway or proxy, serving as an intermediary between clients and servers. It offers various advantages such as performance optimization, security measures, scalability, and essential features like HTTP/2 support, Gzip compression, and SSL/TLS encryption. As a reverse proxy, NGINX enhances the speed and efficiency of web applications by caching frequently accessed content and distributing requests across multiple servers. It also plays a crucial role in protecting web applications from malicious attacks by implementing strict security protocols and screening incoming traffic.

Part 7: A Practical Guide to Setting Up SSL With Nginx

This article provides an overview of SSL certificates and their importance in securing websites. It explains SSL encryption, its advantages such as data security and authentication, improved search engine rankings, and protection against phishing attacks. The process of generating a self-signed SSL certificate for NGINX is outlined, along with the limitations of self-signed certificates. It introduces Certificate Authorities (CAs) that issue trusted digital certificates and emphasizes Let's Encrypt as a free open CA integrated with Certbot for automated obtaining and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates. Instructions on installing Certbot and obtaining an SSL certificate are provided.

Getting Started

All you need to know to get started!

Your Account

All about your Webdock account

Shell Users and Sudo

Information on how to get Shell Access, Set up an SSH key and Working with the default admin Sudo user.

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Billing & Pricing

Billing & Pricing, Additional Products, Trials and Trial periods, Custom Service Level Agreements VAT information and other Billing related things.

Legal stuff

Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy & GDPR Documentation, Privacy Impact Assessment and Third Party Information Sharing

Upgrade or Downgrade PHP

Upgrading or Downgrading PHP Versions and Upgrading to PHP8 on Webdock Focal Stacks

Apache Stacks

All of our Perfect Server Guides for Apache for various PHP versions.

NGINX Stacks

All of our Perfect Server Guides for Nginx for various PHP versions

Pterodactyl

Open Game Panel

LinuxGSM

System Maintenance

How to configure Crontab on Linux and How to free up disk space on an Ubuntu Nginx or Apache Web Server and other handy maintenance information

Database Guides

How to enable Remote access to your MariaDB/MySQL database and other MariaDB/MySQL guides.

Security Guides

How to work with your firewall (UFW - Uncomplicated Firewall), How to enable Encryption for MariaDB, How to configure Security Headers in Nginx and Apache, How to Secure Nginx with Naxsi Firewall on Ubuntu and other security guides

Web Server Setup & Management

In this series, you'll learn how a web server operates and interacts with users, and you'll also learn how to tweak things to improve the experience for your users. And at the end, you'll understand how everything is put together and why we built our LAMP/LEMP stacks the way we did.