Category: web

setup LAMP Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP7.3 su – root; # become root apt update; # update system to latest apt upgrade; # database first apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client # set root pwd for database (can be root on dev test […]

check it out on: https://nmap.org/favicon/ done with nmap, pretty NOICE! how is it created? “scanning the top million web sites for 2013 (as ranked by the analytics company Alexa). (bought up by Amazon in 1996) We then downloaded each site’s […]

“As explained previously, this flaw could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on targeted computers and take full control over them just by convincing victims into opening a maliciously crafted web page on the vulnerable Microsoft browser.” https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/microsoft-windows-updates.html

wishes for next year: free wifi for eels (and other creatures) Why does EVERYONE have to run their own WIFI / pay their OWN internet access? When it would be enough to have one fast internet access plus 2-3x WIFI […]

bc is a nice calculator that one can use under linux terminal. a good exercise: count from 0 to 255 and convert it to binary # install # debian/ubuntu apt install bc # fedora/redhat/centos yum install bc # run bc […]

also roaming within the “(more or less)United States of Europe” (EU) is pretty scary endavor. If you travel across the EU and wish to use your home mobile phone number – you will NEVER know what this phone call or […]

20-30% of positive ratings as well as negative ratings (to make competition look bad) are fake! according to gallileo magazine this website tries to filter/debunk the fake from the real ratings: https://reviewmeta.com/

changing port for vestacp backend will also change port for /phpmyadmin vim /usr/local/vesta/nginx/conf/nginx.conf # find this lines # Vhost server { listen 8083; <- change new port :wq # save and quit # restart vesta service vesta restart what you […]

backups can become rather huge. and if you have your own backup mechanism in place… you should: web mode: per package manual mode: per user # edit per user-file: vim /usr/local/vesta/data/users/admin/user.conf # Look for BACKUPS=”?” # line to adjust how […]

IPv6: Introduction it’s the year 2019, roughly 14% of the web is running ipv6. you can watch real time statistics here: (i have no clue how accurate the data is, how they are generated) https://ipv6.he.net/v4ex/sidebar/? … but it seems there […]

web3d awesome! you can walk here with cursor buttons and tilt up and down with mouse wheel: and even upload your own pictures:   http://www.spacegoo.com/tiananmen/# marbleous: But the website itself is pretty impressive: unfortunately the tux web flying simulator did […]

“the internet” in Germany is so slow… once your start page has finished loading… you actually forgot what you were searching for. (it has become better in Munich) PS: If this site (http://mycpu.eu) loads slow – it is because the […]

1×× Informational 100 Continue 101 Switching Protocols 102 Processing 2×× Success 200 OK 201 Created 202 Accepted 203 Non-authoritative Information 204 No Content 205 Reset Content 206 Partial Content 207 Multi-Status 208 Already Reported 226 IM Used 3×× Redirection 300 […]

lately this blog gets bombarded with queries like these: which decoded are Korean SPAM? which translates as: iptables / firewalld seem not to work and have to really really figure out why. until then this is a little workaround, it […]

RSS-Feeds are files.xml, which are auto-generated by CMS like WordPress. It can be subscribed to with an RSS-Client Software. Thunderbird (the Mail program) for example (tested on version 60.6.4 and above) has a pretty convenient functionality to stay up to […]

FTP->SFTP now! first things first: ABANDON FTP IT IS INSECURE AND WILL TRANSFER YOUR PASSWORDS AND FILES IN CLEAR TEXT OVER THE INTERNET! MOVE TO SFTP (FTP OVER SSH) with strong passwords! if you run your own server – disable […]

Thanks! thanks to all the contributors of open source soft- and hardware and people that share their knowledge online for free 🙂 i hope/think that better technology could possibly also change humans to the better… freely sharing information surely does […]

**ARGH**! worst-case! this is what happens if servers that distribute software are hacked… this could happen to ANY software repository. first docker started to piss me off… now vestacp. time to minimalize software usage and config things manually and run […]

We all – except Node.js people and those that want JavaScript to control nuclear power plants – have seen it coming: “JavaScript is evil” Stallman Anti-JavaScript rant: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html (i think he complains more about, that most JavaScripts don’t come with […]

CentOS7: # search for roundcube config file find / -name *roundcubemail.conf* /usr/local/vesta/install/rhel/6/roundcube/roundcubemail.conf /usr/local/vesta/install/rhel/7/roundcube/roundcubemail.conf /usr/local/vesta/install/rhel/5/roundcube/roundcubemail.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf # search for installed packages yum list installed |grep roundcube roundcubemail.noarch # is enough to disable roundcube rm -rf /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf # seems to be no […]

i use https://startpage.com (ixquick) more than google… but i realized today, that google.de for example but also a lot of other domains seem to be blocked by OpenDNS? Resulting in this strange error? the reason for blocking “google.de” but not […]

“In the world of Information Technology, change is constant, compliance is inevitable, adaptability is required” i would add: “resistance is futile” “In the world of Information Technology, change is constant, compliance is inevitable, adaptability is required; therefore, staying one-step ahead […]

By the amount of commentary SPAM i get on WordPress using Google’s ReCaptcha… it wonder if i shut just disable comments all together (kind of what Anti Spam Bee did… it was impossible for me to comment on my own […]

will soon all the freedom of speech and wildness of the net disappear under lawmaker’s bureaucrazy and lawyers suing bloggers? People have been sued by profit seeking lawyers over the use of “Facebook Like Buttons“. Also in EU/Germany law makers […]

Why: Do MAJOR news outlets NOT use SSL? Euronews is not able to use SSL? Out of compatibility reasons? (maybe platform not ready yet? lame!) Because the surveillance state works better without SSL? I guess. Same goes for: https://spiegel.de -> […]

checkout what is the latest version: ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/info-systems/www/squid/ probably this is more recent: https://github.com/squid-cache/squid you could also try git clone https://github.com/squid-cache/squid.git and compile with the git source tree… let me know if it worked. hostnamectl; # tested on [root@CentosMaster squid-4.0.21]# hostnamectl […]

  i did just some basic testing… and managed to compile the php7.3 binary – but the make install failed. it would help to have multiple cores… hostnamectl; # tested with Static hostname: CentosSlave Icon name: computer-vm Chassis: vm Operating […]

in general: social competence demands to first praise then critizise – no matter what – nobody is perfect or god. praise: Thanks for this massively cool webserver software – that can do so many things (vhosts and .htaccess and php) […]

i tried to compile under debian…. but it’s way more compli cated. also: you probably do not need all the packages stated here… but i did not have the time to sort those out sorry for that. feel free to […]

according to https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server/all apache(2 i guess) is still the dominant webserver on the internet with a market share of 50%. src: https://trends.builtwith.com/web-server according to builtwith.com it is “only” 40% market share for the apache(2) webserver. also most sites are running […]