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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

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 […]

How to configure TLS 1.2 on UNIX or GNU/Linux

July 26, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

This is an article willing to help and point out a few useful resources for those using Apache HTTP or NGINX web servers that are still using the deprecated SSLv3, TLS 1.0 and/or TLS 1.1 verions. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use this link to […]

How to install Docker on Ubuntu 18.04

February 25, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Operating System level virtualization is hitting hard now, as much as VM’s did just a few years ago. Docker is the popular framework for this matter, the new kid on the block so to speak. This is the hot spot now and if anyone wants to appear knowledgeable about system administration knowing this technology is […]

How to secure the ELK stack on CentOS 8

May 12, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

This is a follow up of the ‘how to install the ELK stack on CentOS 8’. That is a basic setup with no security at all. There is no encryption, no username and password setup, nothing. Not even firewall rules to filter ports. And as it’s known security can’t only rely on one factor but […]

How to work with Nessus scan results

May 18, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

Working with Nessus scan results is easy. How do I know that? Because I’ve worked with this tool for some time and although I do not know every corner of the things I’ve been doing some scans and solving quite a few deffects on systems that were labeled as ‘production ready’ when they clearly weren’t. […]

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 […]

How to install the FAMP stack

January 8, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

You may have heard of the LAMP stack which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or Perl. This is the same but instead of using the GNU/Linux operating system we’ll use FreeBSD. This is the FAMP stack. There are two ways to install software in FreeBSD, packages and the ports collections. Which in the […]

How to test SSL/TLS configurations

April 18, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

If you are in charge of any site with SSL/TLS conenctions enabled you are always in the chase to get the best possible and most secure configuration. This isn’t always the case and the lack of time does take its toll on many administrators. Those individuals are always asked to do more with less and […]

100 articles mark at Adminbyaccident.com

May 23, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

This is the 100th post here at Adminbyaccident. Little I knew when I starting posting that I would reach the ‘impossible’ mark of the 100 articles. Sure, some of them are not very interesting, nor instructive. Three years ago I wasn’t the same and I hope in three years time I’m still here and kicking. […]

How to install Nextcloud on FreeBSD 12

March 15, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Nextcloud. Have you heard of it? That’s quite probable if you’re here. But, what is it, what is it? Some say it is a Google Apps replacement, some say it’s just a place to store your documents, some others just rely on it to share documents across the company and edit them just in time […]

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