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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

Symbolic and Hard Links in UNIX and Linux

July 16, 2023 By Albert Valbuena

Symbolic and Hard Links are useful ways to reference to information on a disk, both found in UNIX and Linux systems. While they seem similar in the surface they are quite different in how they work and it what can be achieved when using them. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to 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 Apache in FreeBSD with pkgng

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

The Apache Web Server is one of the most widely deployed web servers around the world. There are new and powerful alternatives you may have heard of, such as NGINX which seems to be the coolest thing around lately. There are meaningful differences between the two. Both are great but for example Apache has set […]

How to update FreeBSD with freebsd-update

April 25, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Anytime you set a clean fresh FreeBSD install or just any other operating system you must update it. This should be the first thing. If you are a bit security aware (read paranoid) you can first set up the firewall rules and then update the system to the latest release where you have all the […]

How to manually update Letsencrypt certificates on FreeBSD

February 25, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

Update 05-2020: If anyone is interested on the automatic process you can read my tutorial on DigitalOcean about the topic. On this guide we will manually update our Letsencrypt certificate on FreeBSD for a single website. It is a simple operation that can be automated as a cron job, but seeing it is always informative […]

How to install OSSEC server on Ubuntu

April 14, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

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. […]

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 […]

What is Expect?

November 19, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Expect is a handy scripting tool for task automation. You may have never heard of it. I heard about many scripting things before. But one day I needed something simple but didn’t know how to proceed, what would be a good tool for my purpose. The task was simple. Exporting a website content from a […]

How to configure the PF firewall on FreeBSD

August 15, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

There are three firewall options on FreeBSD. The in-house built IPFW, the ‘old’ IPF (known as IP Filter) and PF ported from OpenBSD. PF is a very popular piece of software which was originally sparked from an issue on the IPF license that prevented making changes publicly available, which the OpenBSD did all the time. […]

How to improve Apache HTTP performance on FreeBSD

February 17, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

There are some nice articles on the internet telling you how to improve your Apache HTTP server’s performance. I did my bit on FreeBSD land. While turning on a different MPM than the prefork default one increases Apache HTTP performance by a lot, it is not the only thing one may do. For example if […]

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