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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to install AWStats on FreeBSD 13.0

September 12, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

AWStats is a very powerful and useful software allowing webmasters count the visits to their managed websites. The tool is basically coded in Perl and it was a very popular choice before Google made it way easy when they launched their Google Analytics tool. However, nowadays not everyone is using Google Analytics services and even […]

How to export a MySQL database.

November 17, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

You are your website editor, owner and now administrator. You want control over the whole process and you are migrating from a managed site. Or you are a versed user on unix-like environments and you are just willing to export your database. This is a simple post on how to export a MySQL database. If […]

How to install MariaDB in FreeBSD

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

MariaDB is a derivative from the world-famous enterprise class MySQL database. The MySQL founder is Michael Widenius, also known as Monty. He created the project, it worked out for some time, it caught Sun’s attention and they bought it. Then Oracle bought Sun and knowing Larry everyone left running without looking what was left behind. […]

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April 19, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

I am a busy guy. Answering comments takes precious time from my daily life so don’t get mad if I don’t reply you back quickly or if I just don’t do. Plus, think twice before posting. If you really have something interesting to say, just go ahead. If that is something you really think I’d […]

How to set time and date in FreeBSD

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

In a FreeBSD system one may need to adjust date and time, specially if one has opened a VPS instance in some hosting provider. The system already provides a list of time zones. Just look around in the /usr/share/zoneinfo folder and subfolders to find the one that fits your needs. Just remember this will have […]

How to setup a simple firewall in FreeBSD using IPFW

April 24, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Setting the firewall up is a mandatory task on any computer facing the internet. This is a simple, straightforward how to article on how to setup a box with an easy firewall configuration on FreeBSD. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use this link to get […]

How to configure Apache HTTP as a reverse proxy on FreeBSD

March 28, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Apache HTTP as a reverse proxy consists on setting an Apache HTTP server as a frontal access for one or multiple backend servers. In the recent years many have started using NGINX as a reverse proxy since this piece of software really shines for serving static content an acting as a cache server. This doesn’t […]

Networking Dictionary

July 3, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

This is an attempt to collect all the necessary basic vocabulary to have a very basic basic understanding of networking. Because context is also needed, some concepts or historical references will be also shown. This dictionary is an informal one, for a better, accurate, more correct and in depth understanding look somewhere else, like the […]

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 install the bash shell on FreeBSD

January 28, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Believe it or not the Bash shell does not come installed on the system. By default FreeBSD uses the sh shell (after the rewrite under the BSD license on 1989 of the original Bourne Shell found on UNIX, which had inherited the ‘sh’ name from the original’s Thomson shell), the C shell or the tcsh […]

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