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FreeBSD for all!

YAR – Things were so difficult in 2013 it seems!

The sites are on FreeBSD now. I got sick of NetBSD not working. I’m sure its a fine OS but since not as many people use it, it is harder to figure out how to fix things via Google. I moved over to FreeBSD and the thing I couldn’t get working worked by default. Yay! We’ve got more memory and disk space here also so it ought to be quicker. All for about the same cost… And randomly while compiling things on the old NetBSD VPS it’d outright run out of disk space, that never was fun.

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Switched to nginx

Reposting from 2013 – why did I post this originally on Valentine’s day – so romantic!

I’m going to start another blog. I’ll post a link here once it’s up. As a part of that I want to share 1 server with mulitple domains. So that’s going to add some load. I started with Apache but decided to give nginx a try. It always sounded to be more efficient and randomly the side is brought down by too much activity. Maybe nginx will be better. So far so good.

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Apache proxy restricion to local network

Old post copied forward – I never plan on using Apache again but maybe it helps someone else!

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Tomcat Digests

I have a Tomcat server running (not for topbarbee anymore) and wanted to put a bit more security around logins to it. So I wanted to do 2 things –

  1. Add digested passwords in Tomcat’s tomcat-users.xml
  2. Make logins sent from the web browser sent as a digest authentication

Simple, no?

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PPTP VPN with MPD and PF on FreeBSD

And here’s another thing I posted 4 years ago (reposted with backdating in 2016) about something I’ve totally forgotten! Could very well be useful.

Surfing the internet on public wifi is not secure. Anyone could be snooping on your communication. I’ve a computer running FreeBSD 9.0 that I use for many things and I’ve recently added VPN to one of those things. I imagine you could use other BSDs, Linux, or OS X for this also. I imagine even Windows could do it.