A few weeks ago, a guide explaining how to install AWStats on FreeBSD was released here in adminbyaccident.com. On that piece a basic install of AWStats is shown, however, a nice and important functionality of AWStats is missing. Knowing the location of visitors is a matter of interest, for the sake of it or because […]
How to enable Geolocation in AWStats on FreeBSD 13.0
How to connect a FreeBSD box to the internet through an Android device via an USB port
FreeBSD is known to be very suitable for computer servers, from Netflix streaming to Whatsapp messaging as powerful examples. Some also use FreeBSD as a workstation OS. I am one of those using BSD on both camps, although I also use some GNU/Linux boxes for ‘trivial’ purposes. In modern times having an internet connection seems […]
Why FreeBSD
In the following lines you will find a brief but sort of complete explanation about what is FreeBSD and why FreeBSD might be of your interest. If you are already a Mac or Linux user this could be more relevant for you than you would imagine. Enjoy. FreeBSD is an operating system, a unix-like operating […]
Linux VS open source UNIX
Linux is the mainstream UNIX-like platform of choice in the modern world. There are valid open source code base alternatives from which many businesses have benefited from. This is a different approach on both.
How to find vulnerabilities in your WordPress with WPScan
Vulnerability scanners are useful tools for administrators and security analysts alike. For the casual WordPress user tools like WPScan may look excessive and complicated for their knowledge, they just need their blog, web page, whatever they’re doing up and running. Any complex administration bothers them to the max, and there are good and valid reasons […]
How to install Webmin on FreeBSD 12
Webmin is a fantastic tool for those willing to administer UNIX or unix-like systems through a GUI interface. While the CLI interface lets any user to interact with these kind of systems to the very core and extract all the juice, there are tasks where the graphical interface makes sense and its visual and quick […]
A brief introduction to Regular Expressions
A regular expression is a set of characters, a string of characters if you will, that specify a pattern. Ever used the grep command? It makes use of them. The ‘grep’ command is very handful when one needs to look for certain things inside a text file, or looking for some specific pattern from another […]
How to configure Apache HTTP as a reverse proxy on FreeBSD
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 […]
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How to install OSSEC server on Ubuntu
OSSEC is a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS). It is specially well known for monitoring files that shouldn’t change on a system (such as critical system files, or binaries, etc) and warning administrators (or anyone you’d like) about those issues. But it does more such as rootkit detection and log analysis with a dedicated engine. […]