Keeping your logs tidy
If you've ever run a fairly busy webserver on FreeBSD -or you just happen to have particularly badly written code spamming the error log, such as some wordpress based plugin spaghetti- you probably found yourself into the situation where your logs grow out of proportion. Or maybe you ran software th
Playing with text
Although I named this blog "FreeBSD is Fun", most of the articles on it deal with very practical matters, albeit in a simpler and more light hearted way than the FreeBSD documentation. Which is not saying a lot, I admit. Therefore and, as a sort of follow up to my previous text on shell colors, I
Backup your MySQL database to OVH storage
This post was updated on 9th September 2022 Backups: one of those things nobody thinks about until it's too late. Even when we are keeping local backups, natural disastershttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU may happen. So, if we really want to keep our data safe, off-
FreeBSD network setup for VMs in OVH
One of the reasons why FreeBSD fans are not very fond of OVH is the fact that networking will simply not work out of the box when you create a virtualization guest. In my case I have used Proxmox, but these instructions should work with any other virtualization host. Installing FreeBSD is otherwi
Coloring your shell
Introduction If you are like me and enjoy spending time fiddling with FreeBSD, or you want to make it a bit harder to avoid making mistakes because you edited the wrong file or something, it pays off to set up some coloring in your FreeBSD shell. Not for the aesthetics, but to identify easier: who
Your own NGINX web server
This is an updated version of a tutorial originally posted in Metin2Devhttps://metin2.dev/topic/1007-how-to-set-up-a-webserver-with-nginx-and-php-fpm/comment-36457 in 2014. Today I will explain how to set up the nginx webserver in FreeBSD. While Apache has a long tradition, it has been overtaken
Basic SSH security
This tutorial was first published in 2014 in Metin2Devhttps://metin2.dev/topic/183-basic-ssh-security/. I have corrected a few bits, but the procedures are exactly the same as 10 years ago. Today I will show you how to make your server safer easily while at the same time avoiding having to type y