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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to upload a FreeBSD custom image on DigitalOcean

March 15, 2022 By Albert Valbuena

Due to DigitalOcean not releasing ready to use images for FreeBSD 13 at this time, and since I opened a ticket a couple of months ago without a strong positive message from DigitalOcean supporting FreeBSD 13, I’ve decided to make use of their custom image upload service and give it a go. I must say […]

How to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown on an HP Proliant server with FreeBSD

September 1, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

As recently announced in a previous article I wanted to write a couple of guides on how to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in GNU/Linux and UNIX environments. It is always a good and I hope a standard practice to have your systems patched and if they aren’t for whatever the reason (that legacy thing […]

How to use Fail2ban with WordPress

September 24, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

In a previous article we did an install of Fail2ban on a FreeBSD server. This tool can help us to protect our WordPress install, independatly from if we are using the FAMP stack or the LAMP stack. As I mentioned on that article Fail2ban is a complementary tool to our firewall. It works by scanning […]

How to install WordPress on Debian 9 (LAMP stack)

January 11, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

In this guide we’ll see how to install a simple, clean, new WordPress site. In order to run this site we’ll have to have a LAMP (or FAMP if you prefer FreeBSD over Linux) stack in place. Read the correspondent guides in order to get the necessary software layers all together, rightly configured. If you […]

How to install OpenVAS on FreeBSD

May 12, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Was ist das? OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner. If you are unfamiliar to the vulnerability scanning world this can be an overwhelmingly experience but tools like this are what makes the matter more accessible, more manageable, easy to see and easy to fix. Before digging into the matter at hand here, that is how to […]

How to install ModSecurity 2 on FreeBSD

May 6, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

WARNING: A newer version of ModSecurity is available. The article to install ModSecurity 3 on FreeBSD can be found here. Will be published on March 1st, 2021. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use this link to get $200 credit at DigitalOcean and support Adminbyaccident.com costs. […]

How to install Webmin on FreeBSD 12

February 1, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Webmin is a fantastic tool for those willing to administer UNIX or unix-like systems through a GUI interface. While the CLI interface lets any user to interact with these kind of systems to the very core and extract all the juice, there are tasks where the graphical interface makes sense and its visual and quick […]

How to install Matomo 4 on FreeBSD

May 2, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Why would anyone need to install Matomo 4 on FreeBSD? Because you’re the admin of a website, or a few of them, and you want/need to count the visitors, how long do the stay looking at the content and some other fancy stuff. This is what Matomo does. But it also does this without you […]

How to install WPScan on FreeBSD

March 22, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Vulnerability scanners are useful tools to find issues on systems, networks and the like. WPScan is dedicated to find vulnerabilities on WordPress installations. A short tutorial as an introduction to the tool has been published here. So if you are interested on the tool and on FreeBSD, let’s dig on this how to install WPScan […]

How to manage site visitors based on IP Geolocation

October 10, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Whenever someone publishes a website on the internet, most of the times, their intention is that site to be seen around the globe. However, as a site administrator you may want to divert users from one country to visit some specific version of that site, maybe because of the visitor’s language. Other times, less often […]

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