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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to update FreeBSD using beadm

November 17, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Beadm is a tool which provides a wonderful and distinctive functionality on Solaris, OpenIndiana and FreeBSD. It relies on the ZFS filesystem allowing to take a filesystem snapshot. That can be used to manage the so called boot environments which provide a great way to secure updates, even when everything goes down the tubes. Hence […]

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 […]

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 the ELK stack on CentOS 8

April 30, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

The ELK stack stands for Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. These three pieces of software are very useful since each brings a powerful capability that in combination is just great to use. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash can process data from multiple sources. Kibana allows to visualize data in a graphic manner. These […]

How to install Mate on FreeBSD 12/13

February 25, 2023 By Albert Valbuena

In this how to install Mate on FreeBSD I’m not going to repeat the same guides you can read elsewhere. If you desire to use FreeBSD as a daily driver desktop, I do encourage you to read and follow the guides from this other guy. The guide you are currently reading can be considered the […]

The Original Sin

December 15, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Disclaimer: What you are about to read may contain inaccuracies. Feel free to discuss them somewhere else. This is also my opinion and as such it may change through time, maybe tomorrow, next month, next year, next decade or never. I do also make very few reviews (if any) of what I write here so […]

How to manipulate and use USB drives in FreeBSD

March 4, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

If you are coming from the Windows, Mac or GNU/Linux world using USB drives on the desktop is a piece of cake. You plug it and it works. That’s it. Interoperability between the proprietary world and OSS (Open Source Software) has improved but there’s still a very palpable line. Just grab a new USB drive, […]

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 […]

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 […]

How to configure FreeBSD to use a webcam (version 12 and 13)

August 13, 2023 By Albert Valbuena

Introduction. Unlike many Linux distributions the FreeBSD operating system comes quite crude out of the box. What others will interpret as a disadvantage, with some knowledge on the system, others see the power to serve. Anyone willing to have a nice FreeBSD desktop experience with little effort, there are a couple of BSD-based distributions, like […]

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