Apache: Different authentication requirements
I have a web application running on Apache 2.4 that I would like to be password protected for everyone except for my local network. If someone access it from my […]
FreeBSD Upgrades with ZFS boot environments
FreeBSD has always been my OS of choice but in the past I have always viewed upgrades as one point of failure. What is the upgrade doesn’t go as expected, […]
Oxidized – Network Configuration Tool
Every year it seems like more and more network devices get installed on our networks. Switches, router, firewall, access points are just a few of the devices that get installed. […]
MySQL: Working with Date Ranges
At times we have to collect the last 7 or 15 days of data from MySQL. For example to create graphs or stats for the past x amount of days or […]
Install 2nd Drive in FreeBSD
This article will document the procedure to setup a second UFS filesystem on a second drive and have it added into your FreeBSD server. Installing a second drive into FreeBSD […]
Resize a FreeBSD UFS Boot Drive
Resizing the boot drive on a FreeBSD server can seem a little daunting since that if the drive that FreeBSD is running on. This post will show that it is […]
ZFS Bare Metal Restore
This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.
Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD
If you need to know what ports are open and listening on your FreeBSD servers, you can use a few commands. Netstat -An used to me my goto command for […]
Convert Certificates from PFX to PEM
This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.
Let’s Encrypt Certificate – Synology NAS Howto
I own a Synology NAS and it now supports the free certificates from Let’s Encrypt. The only problem with Synology’s implimentation is that they only allow the web (HTTP-01) method […]