Often, after a fresh new installation of FreeBSD, we have a set of programs we want to install. The conventional method would be installing it one by one in /usr/ports. Today, we will use meta ports to install the set of applications by just one “make install clean” rather then “cd” into individual directories and [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Apache – [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 80, the first has precedence
Virtual Host. A feature that enables Apache to configure multiple domain into one web (http) server. This feature saves the need to run multiple instances of web server and thus saves resources.
After configuring the <VirtualHost> directives, some may encounter an error message :
Error : [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 80, the first has precedence
This [...]
MySQL – Passwordless login within bash script
As like the previous post about passwordless login within Bash script, this post is about how to connect to MySQL database server using Bash script without MySQL client prompting for login.
Here it is :
ssh – How to encrypt/tunnel internet traffic through ssh
When using an insecure internet connection (e.g. wireless), it is a good practice to tunnel internet traffic through ssh. Tunneling through ssh provide encryption of the traffic starting from local computer to the point ends where ssh server is. It is especially important to encrypt the traffic out of the local PC when using un-secure [...]
SmokePing – How setup logging (or debuging)
SmokePing is an utility to keep track of the network latency from your network to various site. Its output are recorded in graph, for analysis purpose. Its configuration are simple and easy to setup. But some times, logging are needed to debug some probes failed to output to graph. The logging setup will need to [...]
WordPress – wp-cache plugin not working
WordPress plugin wp-cache is a plugin that caches the WordPress post the first time when someone visits it then it uses the cache next time when the same post needs to load again. This saves processing power and also improves user experience as WordPress posts are loaded faster.
For some reason, wp-cache stop working. The “Cache [...]
FreeBSD – Quick install guide (aka How to install FreeBSD)
Much great have been said on FreeBSD;
the license has all the freedom you need
server apps setup are mostly manual. no wizard of oz, no gui. Which makes the administrator have control over everything.
it boots faster
its stability is like rock, hard to crash
default installation are lean and mean. Is meant to be built from [...]
