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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

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 software in FreeBSD with pkgng

April 25, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

The pkgng is the package management system in FreeBSD. It is used to install applications, and specific modules, libraries, etc. Nowadays you can select in between more than 25.000 thousand. Yes, twenty five thousand. The syntax to use is very intuitive and simple. As you may be already aware software comes in two forms. Source […]

How to configure the PF firewall on FreeBSD

August 15, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

There are three firewall options on FreeBSD. The in-house built IPFW, the ‘old’ IPF (known as IP Filter) and PF ported from OpenBSD. PF is a very popular piece of software which was originally sparked from an issue on the IPF license that prevented making changes publicly available, which the OpenBSD did all the time. […]

How to load and unload kernel modules in Linux

May 15, 2023 By Albert Valbuena

Kernel modules permit enabling hardware features on a given system. For example, if we need to read from a particular filesystem from a hard drive, we need to load a particular kernel module. Or use a specific network card, a sound card or sound device, a video display, etc. This is mostly done automatically in […]

The LAMP stack (Debian 9)

January 11, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

LAMP stack stands for a software stack composed by Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl). It is used for many purposes and its common ground for system administrators. Since there are several of Linux distributions there are some differences in the way the LAMP stack is installed. In this guide we are using the […]

How to install Drupal 8 on FreeBSD

January 13, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

NOTE: Drupal 8 will be soon oudated. A newer article to be released on October 24th on how to install Drupal 9 on FreeBSD can be found here. This is a quick, simple yet effective tutorial on how to install Drupal 8 on FreeBSD. Drupal is a robust, complete well stablished CMS used on many […]

How to install OSSEC agents on Windows

April 27, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

On a recent post I published about how to install an OSSEC server on Ubuntu I explained how this solution can help secure an infrastructure by deploying agents which report back to a central server. This is the second part of this server-client story. On this guide you will read about setting up agents and […]

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

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 Cloudflare’s Argo Tunnel service to publish a website on FreeBSD 12/13

December 12, 2022 By Albert Valbuena

What is the Cloudflare Argo Tunnel service? In short, a tunneled connection between a host and Cloudflare’s network. A longer depiction can be read in a blog entry of theirs, but I would put it as a secure way to connect the services you want to publish using their network as a shield. An example […]

How to enable SSL on Apache on FreeBSD

May 28, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

On this guide you will read about a simple way to enable Apache’s TLS connections on your web server. Aside from useful it secures the connection from the client to the server and prevents unwanted tinkering. Anyone on the need of SSL (nowadays TLS) will benefit from this article but particularly will do those in […]

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