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 […]
Month: January 2014
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 […]