Tag Archives: server

Serving ownCloud with Caddy

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to set up ownCloud with Caddy for a secure, personal cloud service. I wrote this guide while configuring on Ubuntu 14. ownCloud A quick introduction to ownCloud for those who never heard about it (as found on Wikipedia): OwnCloud (stylized ownCloud) is a suite of client-server software […]

Running Caddy Server as a service with systemd

In a previous blogpost I explained how to run Caddy (a brilliant and simple web server) as a service using Upstart. Systemd, however, replaced Upstart on most of the operating systems, so it makes more sense to have a guide for systemd. Caddy executable We don’t run Caddy as root to keep things as secure as […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nginx routing voor ownCloud

Ik kreeg de url routing van ownCloud maar niet aan de praat op mijn nieuwe Nginx installatie, de standaard routing statement werkte niet omdat ownCloud urls heeft met index.php in de url (bv. index.php/apps/files). De oplossing bleek onderstaande Nginx statement: if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last; break; } Uiteraard moeten er nog andere […]