Category: Webserver

PHP Composer how to install and how to usage
28.10.2023

always say something positive first: then the critique: follow the excellent guide: https://getcomposer.org/download/ mkdir /var/www/html/composer cd /var/www/html/composer php -r “copy(‘https://getcomposer.org/installer’, ‘composer-setup.php’);” php -r “if (hash_file(‘sha384’, ‘composer-setup.php’) === ‘THISWILLHAVECHANGEDBYNOW’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } […]

project: sharing pictures alternative to WhatsApp (Facebook) – share family pictures with privacy & secure & easy
19.02.2021

v1.6 https://dwaves.de/software/familypicshare.de_v1.6.tar.gz https://dwaves.de/software/familypicshare.de_v1.6.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt released: improvements: thumbnail generator thanks to ImageMagick PHP extension can now also resize large image files (10MBytes and more) for slideshow it now uses resized versions of 1024px instead of the original file (which might be too […]

ntpd – when fundamentals fail
06.07.2019

servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]

16.05.2019

WARNING! central VestaCP software vendor was hacked in 2018 not sure if they fixed the problem and continue VestaCP development (a shame, it was really a very very nice web based gui to admin web and mailsevers) changing port for […]

vestacp disable backups
14.05.2019

WARNING! central VestaCP software vendor was hacked in 2018 not sure if they fixed the problem and continue VestaCP development (a shame, it was really a very very nice web based gui to admin web and mailsevers) backups can become […]

a pretty good ipv6 introduction – ipv4 depletion
09.05.2019

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 […]

HTTP Status Codes
04.03.2019

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 […]

how to htaccess limit wordpress searches
04.03.2019

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 […]

self hosted wordpress setup script
07.02.2019

WARNING! BACKUP YOUR MACHINE! UNTESTED! before running this script change to your new web root: /home/UserName/web/domain.com/public_html then run it like /scripts/install_wordpress.sh it tries to: download and unpack the latest wordpress into the current directory disable xmlrpc.php disable wp-cron.php requirements: a […]

VestaCP disable roundcube webmail
09.08.2018

WARNING! central VestaCP software vendor was hacked in 2018 not sure if they fixed the problem and continue VestaCP development (a shame, it was really a very very nice web based gui to admin web and mailsevers) CentOS7: # search […]

NGINX as HTTP proxy – vhosts and SSL for Tomcat
01.03.2018

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that provides security for communications between client and server by implementing encrypted data and certificate-based authentication. Technically, the term “SSL” now refers to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which is based on […]