Build firewall on server (ubuntu)

I would like to secure my VPS. That’s why I had to find some more informations about firewalls. The most interesting idea… “firewall” via iptales. However managing iptables is a litlle bit complicated, so I decided to use UFW.

“Starting nginx: Enter PEM pass phrase:” – not any more

We generated new ssl key. This time it’s from Gigaone. I added it to site’s config file and after restart of nginx I have a message: “Starting nginx: Enter PEM pass phrase:”. Everything is fine, however I don’t want to fill my password after each restart of nginx. Time to do something with it.

Automounting doesn’t work, I need to mount manually

I don’t why, but automounting in my Ubuntu 9.10 doesn’t work. I couldn’t find any solutions, so I have to mount my usb flash drive manually.

Allow short form of PHP’s open tag

So easy, right? Yes, of course. However I forgot about it. That’s why RSS feeds to two of my blogs (this one and blog.karolzielinski.com) didn’t work for a while. Ehhh… fixed. Now, I will describe how to allow this form.

I’m building mail server

I want to build mail server on my VPS (ubuntu). What I want to have is: multiple domains and users; users’ accounts in MySQL database; Courier package to control my pop and imap access to the emails. So.. let’s do it.

Subversion server, with web access on ubuntu

Today I will present how to install subversion server (+ repository) with the apache module and web access protected by password.

PHP via apache on the server with nginx and django

I already described how to configure Wordpress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi), as well as how to configure php-fpm on server with nginx. Now… I will try to describe alternative way to serve php scripts on the machine with python apps (django) and nginx installed – via installed apache.

I want to serve php via Php-fpm on my ubuntu

My plan is to have one server for my python and php applications. I already wrote about configuring nginx + apache for django applications. As well as configuring Wordpress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi). Today I will to present how to serve my php applications via php-fpm.

I’m building production environment for my django apps

I’m building production environment on my VPS for all of my django applications. What I need is: Django framework, Apache (with mod_wsgi) and nginx. I will do it on ubuntu 9.04.

Background processes in linux

Why to add process to background? How to do it, while executing script and when it is already running? Just a few quick examples.