Here are some quick notes on how to order and install the free SSL certificates provided by VPS.NET on your server. 1. Create a self-signed certificate. Install ssl-cert if it is not already installed root@ns2:/tmp# aptitude install ssl-cert NOTE: VPS.NET now require 2048 bit certificates. So, edit ssleay.cnf from1024 bits to 2048 bits. root@ns2:/tmp# [...]
Setting Ubuntu Default Crontab Editor
When you first invoke the crontab command in Ubuntu you are prompted for the default editor. If someone has already set this to nano and you are a vim-person this can be very annoying. To change it to vim use the select-editor command root@ns1:/etc# select-editor Select an editor. To change later, run ‘select-editor’. 1. [...]
Install Memcached on Ubuntu
Memcached on Ubuntu has actually two components. A standalone program running on your server and a client PHP extension. To be honest I noticed no increase in performance using memcached with the W3 Total Cache plugin. root@ns1:~# aptitude install memcached The following NEW packages will be installed: memcached First we need to install [...]
Check iPhone Warranty Online
Want to know if you iPhone is still under warranty. Just go to this site and enter your iPhone serial number. https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do To find you iPhone serial number go to Settings->General->Serial Number. Link to this post!
WPMU W3 Total Cache Can Not Login
I just wasted several hours debugging a an issue of my own creation. In WC3 Total Cache I enabled the following CDN setting Set cookie domain to www.myservrname.comIf using subdomain for CDN functionality, this setting helps prevent new users from sending cookies in requests to the CDN subdomain. This resulted in the servername being [...]
Setup A FreeBSD Web Server–Part 2–Jails
This post is continuing from Part 1 of our series on how to setup a FreeBSD Web Server. If you ordered a number of IP address then you might want to set them up as individual jails. One for your DNS server, one for you backend server and the rest as individual webserver IP [...]
Setup A Freebsd Server– Part 1– Lock It Down
When you get your raw freebsd srever from your hosting provider, you will usually find it is very out of date and not very secure. Our very first step is to lock down our server. 1. Secure Access To Your Server The first thing I like to do is restrict ssh access from the [...]
Recovering A Broken WordPress Blog Without A Backup Copy
One my other blogs started displaying blank pages whenever I accessed it. There was nothing I could do to recover it. I couldn’t even gain Admin access. I suspected it was a bad plugin or (Gasp) that I was hacked. Here is what I did to recover it. It took me hours to do the [...]
How to access HP ILO via a ssh tunnel
Sometimes your HP ILO web interface may only be accessible via a jump box in a DMZ. In this case you may be able to access it with an ssh tunnel. Here is how. download putty.exe and plink.exe — plink is a command line interface to putty. Here are the official putty and plink site [...]
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