Centos

Installing Varnish to increase the speed of the page load.

Install varnish using the command below

yum install varnish

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Looking to install Solr on your server?  Not sure if it worth the effort?  Well, Apache Solr is the open-source, popular, super fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.  Written in Java, Solr is highly scalable, providing fault-tolerant distributed search and indexing.

Let's walk through the steps I went through to install Solr on Centos 7.

Step 1: Java

Check if Java is installed on your server:

Installing Laravel on an Apache server was going to be a no fuss process said no developer!  Research done.  Documentation looks good and easy to follow.  Time to load Laravel.

The set-up

The install notes on Laravel are easy to follow.  Beginning with checking that your server is able to install Laravel.

To add ejabberd and run MYSQL to the server I needed to update the server version of mysql from 5.5 to 5.7.  Fortunately, there are great instructions on the Plesk support page regarding how to achieve this outcome.