This took me a while to work out.   When people create databases for web applications e.g. for  wordpress or forums, they typically use localhost. For whatever reason it is hardcoded in the mysql client library to use unix domain sockets in every case if ‘localhost’ is used. You can’t even turn this off. To get [...]

I came across a problem when i added more than certain amount of domains on my freebsd webserver, where apache would no longer start. The problem is there is limit in apache to how many accounts the apache user account can be a group of. Anyway the fix is to remove www from /etc/group for [...]

Here is how i setup a squid cache server in it’s own jail compiling ensure you select no NIS in /etc/make.conf before you compile in /etc/rc.d squid_enable=”yes” squid_user=”root” NB you must run as root otherwise you will get permission errors when squid tries to run on port 80 as squid.   Link to this post!

These are the steps I carry out to setup a jailed webserver For starters we don’t want to be compiling X libraries and NIS so first off vi /etc/make.conf NO_X=true NO_X11=true WITHOUT_X11=true NO_NIS=true WITHOUT_NIS=true /etc/nsswitch.conf group: files hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files shells: files cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-server make install cd /usr/ports/database/mysql51-client make install /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-scripts [...]