Hi! I’ve been getting notifications from StartSSL for a month saying that my SSL certificate is expiring. I decided to try out the new Let’s Encrypt free SSL. In this post I will be installing the certificate on a mail server. To start off, you will need Git on your server apt-get install git Next up, More…
Today I’m doing an assignment for my school’s linux servers class held by Tero Karvinen. The assignment is to install Varnish cache and edit the settings of it, to measure site speed with ‘ab’ (ApacheBench) included in ‘apache2-utils’ package and to analyze and speed up a site with Firebug. I will do this assignment with More…
In this post, I’m doing an assignment for the linux server course held by Tero Karvinen. I’m going to install wordpress to my virtual private server on Amazon EC2, which I created earlier. I will be using a MacBook Pro (late 2013) as a terminal and the Amazon EC2 virtual server as the server. The server More…
In this post I’m doing an assignment for Tero Karvinen’s course on linux servers. The assignment is to create a name based virtual server with a domain pointing to it. I decided to use Amazon’s EC2, since it has a free tier and I have already used it once before. Setting up Once I already More…
This is a part two (link to part one) for my home assignment for Tero Karvinen’s course on linux servers. On this part I will build and install a package that will add an executable shell script and an alias for it for all users. Now to create a new package with a shell script More…
If your server is online and out there, it’s probably being already attacked by someone with brute force. This means that someone is running a script trying to guess your root password so it can use your hardware for benefit. I ran into this problem recently after just weeks of publishing my website. You can More…
Hello! In this post I’m doing an assignment for my Linux course in my school held by Tero Karvinen using Xubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. I will be using the same installation I used in the previous post on VirtualBox. To get started, I needed to install munin. It requires Apache to work, which I had already. Installing Munin sudo apt-get update More…
