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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

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 compile cloudflared in FreeBSD 13/14

October 21, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

I happen to self-host my websites using Cloudflare’s services (article 1, article 2). Since the FreeBSD port seems to be delaying its releases and Cloudflare’s policy on maintaining versions only considers 1 year old code, in an act of prevention I have learnt, and I am publishing, how to compile cloudflared in FreeBSD. Note: At […]

Reasonable amount of enabled modules on Apache HTTP

October 12, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

CentOS Ubuntu FreeBSD core_module (static) core_module (static) core_module (static)  so_module (static)  so_module (static)  so_module (static)  http_module (static)  watchdog_module (static)  http_module (static)  access_compat_module (shared)  http_module (static)  mpm_prefork_module (shared)  actions_module (shared)  log_config_module (static)  authn_file_module (shared)  alias_module (shared)  logio_module (static)  authn_core_module (shared)  allowmethods_module (shared)  version_module (static)  authz_host_module (shared)  auth_basic_module (shared)  unixd_module (static)  authz_groupfile_module (shared)  auth_digest_module (shared)  access_compat_module (shared) […]

How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

I happen to self-host a few WordPress sites on FreeBSD. And as much as one can configure OP-Cache to improve PHP’s performance, object cache is a must for many WordPress sites. This how to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD will explain how to install an object cache (Redis) for WordPress (via plugin) on this […]

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 […]

ARP spoofing attacks

April 15, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

ARP spoofing attacks are quite harming and they can easily constitute a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. They consist on the attacker sending ARP packets into the network the victim is located, typically redirecting traffic to the attacker’s machine. Once this is achieved the attacker can sniff all the traffic sent by the victim’s device and obtain […]

How to install Nagios on FreeBSD

January 8, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

As explained in an introduction article, Nagios is a monitoring software very well established and used in production on many environments. Results are displayed in a web page so it uses a web server to publish them to the user and needs some php code to do so. It is configured through files which happen […]

How to update FreeBSD with freebsd-update

April 25, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Anytime you set a clean fresh FreeBSD install or just any other operating system you must update it. This should be the first thing. If you are a bit security aware (read paranoid) you can first set up the firewall rules and then update the system to the latest release where you have all the […]

How to install Apache in FreeBSD with pkgng

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

The Apache Web Server is one of the most widely deployed web servers around the world. There are new and powerful alternatives you may have heard of, such as NGINX which seems to be the coolest thing around lately. There are meaningful differences between the two. Both are great but for example Apache has set […]

Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition Book Review

March 7, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition from Michael W. Lucas, printed by ‘No Starch Press’, is an absolute (pun intended) must have for every BSD user and I’d go so far as to say to every UNIX and Linux user indeed. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use […]

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