Installing wget -q -O – https://jenkins-ci.org/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add – sudo sh -c ‘echo deb http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list’ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install jenkins Once installed, Jenkins will run at port 8080 on your server. Don’t forget to install a C/C++ compiler Don’t forget to install dependencies like QT, libc++ and […]
Category Archives: Servers
Caddy Server and WordPress (PHP-FPM)
Update: I added rewrite rules for WordPress permalinks to the Caddyfile. I also removed all unnecessary bits which are not needed anymore since Caddy now has built-in HTTPS support with Let’s Encrypt. Recently I discovered an amazing open source project: Caddy, a fully functional HTTP/2 webserver, written in Go. Caddy is a lightweight, general-purpose web server for […]
Creating a self-signed SSL certificate on Linux
The exact commands for generating a self-signed SSL certificate on Linux is something I always forget, so here they are: Generating a private key First you need to generate a private key. This private key will be the only key that can decrypt your SSL traffic. $ openssl genrsa -des3 -passout pass:x -out server.pass.key 2048 $ […]
Running Caddy Server as a service with Upstart
Update: Need to run Caddy as service with systemd? Checkout this blogpost! Recently I discovered a very promising webserver (written in Go) called Caddy. Now, Caddy is just an executable, which I wanted to turn into a service on my Ubuntu server. Upstart Running any executable as a service can be done using Upstart. Once […]
Setup an SSH tunnel on Mac OS X
There are some apps available to setup an SSH tunnel on OS X, but you can do it very easily in the terminal. Just start a SOCKS web proxy using this SSH command: $ ssh -D 8080 -C -N username@myserver.com -p 22 Once your proxy is running you must tell OS X to use this […]
Installing MAMP (Mac OS X Apache MariaDB PHP) using MacPorts
Update: I updated the blogpost for PHP 7 instead of PHP 5. If you want to update your current PHP 5 installation to a PHP 7 installation, see this blogpost: Migrating/updating from PHP 5 to PHP 7 on OS X (MacPorts). MacPorts is a BSD ports like package management system for OS X. The MacPorts Project is […]
Backup your databases in Git
Storing backups of the database is import for any possible service on the internet. Git can be the right tool to backup databases. Like other version control systems, Git tracks the changes, and will only push the changes in files to the remote. So if one line in a 1 million database dump is changed, we don’t […]
En toen waren er servers…
Vanaf vandaag beschik ik over een Supermicro server. Het werd hoog tijd om eigen hardware te hebben en er zelf mee aan de slag te gaan! Ik heb gekozen voor server met een zuinige Intel Atom D510 met 4GB ram.
Nginx SSL certificaat: “bad end line error”
Wanneer je een certificaat bundel creëert voor SSL in Nginx (zie vorige post), kan het zijn dat Nginx een “bad end line error” geeft. Je krijgt dan zo’n error: nginx: [emerg] PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX(“/home/mathias/Sites/certificaat/mactua/ssl_bundle.cert”) failed (SSL: error:0906D066:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:bad end line) Dit komt meestal doordat één van de SSL certificaten die je concateneert geen newline heeft op het […]
SSL certificaten installeren in Nginx (Comodo)
Sinds vandaag is denbeke.be beveiligd met een SSL certificaat. In deze blogpost leg ik uit hoe je zo’n certificaat (in dit geval een Comodo PositiveSSL) moet installeren in een Nginx configuratie. Een SSL certificaat, de defacto standaard in het beveiligen van communicatie over het internet versleutelt persoonlijke of gevoelige informatie zoals credit card gegevens, wachtwoorden, namen en adressen […]