How To Install Pound on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install Pound on CentOS 7. Pound is Reverse proxy and load balancer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install Pound on CentOS 7.

What is Pound

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it’s free to use, copy and give away

We can use yum or dnf to install Pound on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install Pound.

Install Pound on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install Pound using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install Pound

Install Pound on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install Pound using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install Pound

How To Uninstall Pound on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the Pound package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove Pound

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install Pound on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.