This post explains how to setup a ssl certificates for a reverse proxy. The example I have used is running ubiqiti’s self hosted UNMS network manager (see https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012196527-UNMS-Installation-Guide) FreeBSD 11.4 nginx 1.18 certbot 1.50 (uses python 3 (3.7.9) Lets encrypt is a free service that allows people to automatically create 90 day ssl certificates. It […]
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Raspberry Pi 3 – Ubnt Unifi Controller 5.x
Ref: http://www.lowefamily.com.au/2016/06/02/installing-ubiquiti-unifi-controller-5-on-raspberry-pi/2/ Install Raspbian Jessie Lite : http://www.lowefamily.com.au/2015/06/11/installing-raspbian-on-raspberry-pi/2/ Disable Wifi / BT: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/43720/disable-wifi-wlan0-on-pi-3 Set Static IP on Ethernet port: https://www.modmypi.com/blog/tutorial-how-to-give-your-raspberry-pi-a-static-ip-address Also for Static IP: https://www.modmypi.com/blog/how-to-give-your-raspberry-pi-a-static-ip-address-update
Installing WordPress on Ubuntu VPS
Some Rough notes on Installing WordPress on Ubuntu VPS GBServers – XenPV-512 service, setup forward and reverse dns Add local user & disable root ssh Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04 or apt-get install lamp-server^ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP Install WordPress https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04 Secure with Firewall – open only required ports https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-using-iptables-on-ubuntu-14-04
Geom Root mirror & ZFS Data
Just a Quick post to record how to install freebsd on a system with 2 internal disks that are mirrored via geom for the o/s (root, swap, boot, tmp, var, usr) and the data is on the remainder of the disks again mirrored but this time by a zfs pool Install FreeBSD on system with […]
Sendmail AUTH & Server STARTTLS FreeBSD 9.2
Background I have an email server running on my adsl line, and I want people to be able to send email via my smtp server. I want them to be able to use pam authentication. I use freebsd and the default mail server is sendmail. To use pam authentication with sendmail and saslauthd plain text […]
Multiple Sites behind single IP
I run several websites from my home server, some should be secured with https as they require people to login – eg webmail, wordpress etc. I don’t have enough IP addresses to give each webserver it’s own public IP, so I need a way to allow many virtual https sites against one IP. Following some […]
WordPress Comments and varnish
The problem I Found was that I could not post on http – I was getting an error 405. this was due to a problem with the way varnish was caching the comments-post.php page from wordpress. so I made a change to not cache this – add a if option to return(pipe) on the comments-post.php […]
FreeBSD 9.1 configuring imap mail with dovecot
I’ve been running FreeBSD servers with imap for a while. Untill now I’ve always used the uw-imapd server, but it’s not great at handling large mailboxes, so I’ve decided to move to dovecot’s imap server. To install dovecot2 on freebsd 9 I use the ports collection as follows cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot2 && make install I additionally […]
VMWare ESX Host refresh
I’ve been running my servers on a VMWare ESXi white box for some time now, and the old hardware is no longer up to the job. It only really the RAM that is a problem, but the motherboard, an Asus P5WS DG Pro I have only supports up to 8Gb, which is no longer enough. […]
Securing WordPress behind SSL proxy
Now that I’ve got my WordPress site up and running on FreeBSD, I decided it should be accessible via https too so that I can login to it securely to prevent passwords being sent over the internet in plain text! After a bit of resarch I discovered the best way to do this was with ngnix sitting on my […]