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WordPress cleanup day

I have not touched my blog for a while. Which is sad. 😦 But, today.. I got to upgrade to 5.6, and did some cleanup. I just followed the checklist on the dashboard, basically. I did some backend changes and removed all the themes that I am not using. Finally, I am posting this to check if Pretty Permalink works. Here goes nothing!

Proxmox node random reboot

I was just playing with my new proxmox node. It is still imcomplete and still in the testing phase. While trying by to find the wake-on-lan setting on the Supermicro X9DRH-IF board, I accidentally turned on the watchdog setting. For whatever reason, it causes proxmox to reboot a few minutes after bootup. It got me pulling my imaginary hair before I figured it out. If i remember correctly, there…

Day 2 after replacing the sata cable of my Proxmox bootdrive. Crossing fingers but it seems the ata errors are gone.

Nfs mounts on zgemma

Noresvport is the optionthat needs to be added for the fstab.

Migrated to proxmox hypervisor

I completed migrating to a Proxmox base for my home infrastructure. Openmediavault it seems is not well suited as a virtualization and container platform. It’s good for a home NAS but I run into issues when I use the sharedfolder functionality for my VM and docker containers.

Migrate WordPress Blog

I wanted to move my WordPress blog to my Openmediavault server to consolidate my hardware. It use to be that I have this blog on a standalone FreeBSD box.

So what did I do to make this happen? Here are the high level steps that I did.

Prepare the VM.

Move the data.

Run the App.

Openmediavault is able to run Docker and also KVM.

I decided to use KVM because I wanted familiarity and I have not…

Installing QEMU VMs through Cockpit is not straightforward. You still need additional configuration.

Here is the rough draft of what I did to get it working.

setup bridge interface using standard linux setup.

install brctl, dnsmasq, and ebtables.

run virsh edit to modify the VNC port.

sources:

https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php/Thread/26913-Cockpit-VirtMachine-Error/

https://forum.openmed…

Poshmark Share Server Howto

Here is how you run your own Poshmark share server.

Install your favorite Linux/BSD distro on your fave VM host(Virtualbox for example)

In my case, I have FreeBSD and I was able to use BHyve. * details on next post

Install Python if you don’t have it already.

Install Python Virtualenv (optional but highly recommended)

Go into github and download the Poshmark share application.

https://github.com…

We are back up after we had a downtime after I upgraded FreeBSD. Not a total lost but I might have lost a few emails and blog posts here. I will be diligently backing up from now on. Lesson not learned sad to say.

So, I have tested Nginx for a few months and I found that I could not get it to work properly. This is with the a patch already applied to make the DAV module to work with my Mac. I just decided its taking a long time to fix and its better to just go back to Apache for now. I may revisit this in the future. I also just recently read the news that Nginx has been bought by another company. I am not…

I have switched to Nginx and it was pretty seamless albeit I had to learn the config. But . . I just noticed that the DAV functionality is not completely working. I cannot get my Mac to connect to it. FreeBSD is missing an updated extended DAV module. I had opened a ticket but it wont be happening till the next version. So, back to Apache for now.

FreeBSD 12 upgrade outcome

I am still cleaning up the aftermath of the upgrade to 12. The base upgrade went well and it seems the issues I have encountered is mostly to the ports.

First off, email and my web server did not work out of the box. I had to reinstall a lot of ports and I did not realize that having OpenSSL port can cause a lot of havoc. Went back to the base OpenSSL and reinstalled the ports.

I also realized…

FreeBSD, OpenLDAP, and LetsEncrypt

I am finally able to get a working LDAP working with a my LetsEncrypt certificates.

The links that help me tremendously is Loga.us blog. I followed most of the instructions except for the replication piece. Also this Archlinux page gave me what i needed to fix the issue I was having.

TLSCACertificatePath /usr/local/share/certs

Today I was doing a lot of upgrading.

I was able to purchase a new PC to get my pFsense install into the latest and greatest 2.4.3 version. My old router PC was an old Pentium 4 and pFSense needs a 64Bit CPU. I went ahead and got an old HP 8200 SFF which has a Core I5 CPU. At least, I am future proofing a bit when 2.5 comes up. I added a quad port NIC and I think I am set for now.

I had a small…

Getting back to CS106a

If one wants to make the startup code to work in the latest Eclipse. You need to install JAva 1.6 and change it on the Eclipse settings. It defaults to the latest one on my Mac.

new stuff day… lol