This is a quick tutorial on setting up NGINX with Certbot when you're using HTTP Basic Authentication. HBA is what you see if you set parameters like this in a location: auth_basic "some arbitrary name"; auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/path/to/my/password/file; If you do this, you'll see a prompt like this if you visit the site: You can use httpasswd (an Apache tool - it's in apache2-tools on Debian) to cr...
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Odoo is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with a freemium model. If you are running an organization, you could use Odoo to handle all your accounting, inventory, CRM, invoicing, etc. It's...
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It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan. Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing. They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...
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Back in March @Not_Oles invited people from Low End Box to join a study group for MIT's Operating System Engineering course, which is available for free online. Just recently, a group of fifteen actua...
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Low End Box and @Not_Oles thank Porkbun and Eddie Barksdale for providing this guest post about Certbun, Porkbun's alternative to Certbot. "Why should I use Certbun rather than Certbot," you ask? @Not...
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This tutorial was contributed by Dustin Cisneros from RackNerd. If you are looking for a VPS, be sure to take a look at RackNerd’s latest special offers here. They’re also perfect for running Mattermo...
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Stay tuned for a post in a few hours with a fantastic NAT VPS offer! For some time, it was the norm to get an IPv4 when you rented a VM. One VM = 1 IPv4 and life was simple. Then humans kept breeding...
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Recently we've been discussing getting started on a new VPS or dedicated server. Specific topics have included updating the operating system and configuring ssh, running a yabs benchmark, and checking...
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Today I had a need to process large numbers of PostgreSQL database tables and report how many rows were in each. Once I had that information, I needed to do some additional math on this data and then...
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This post discusses how to resolve a possible Certbot error. Certbot can fail to install a Let's Encrypt certificate when the certificate is requested for a subdomain in situations where a DNS Certifi...
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Recently we posted How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server. That post discussed our first steps on a new server, including updating the operating system and configuring sshd. Next we posted a...
Read MoreLow End Box recently published A Beginner’s Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy’s Free Courses! The second of the two Udemy courses discussed in that post was Create a Members Only Blog using PHP, MySQL,...
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Sometimes when I'm on the road, I want to connect to something at home. To do that, I need to know my home IP, which changes periodically. There are a couple ways I could accomplish this, but the me...
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I've been a fan of BackBlaze's B2 cloud storage service for a long time. The pricing is great and very straightforward: $.005 per GB per month, and $.01 per GB to download. I use B2 for my cloud back...
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Enjoy this YABS workout from Tom! Sorry, couldn't resist the pun. I should have. --raindog308 Benching With Yabs Hello again from sunny Sonora! Recently I wrote about How To Begin On Your New VPS O...
Read MoreIntroduction Hello from sunny Sonora! This morning I was delighted to receive an email from Hetzner telling me that my new AX41-NVMe server was provisioned with Debian and ready to go! This post discu...
Read MoreUdemy recently has been featured both here on Low End Box and on Low End Talk. Also, on September 20, 2021, Low End Box previously featured Low End Talk's Udemy thread. Low End Talk's Udemy thread has...
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Remember when you could just fire off an email and be sure it'd arrive? Me, neither, it's been so long. Email deliverability is a real hassle here in the 21st century...thanks for this look at one s...
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For some reason, I can never remember these certbot commands. Bookmarked! --raindog308 Introduction Debian, Apache, Certbot, and Let's Encrypt are frequently used for websites. A problem for beginne...
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Last night, in a moment of sudden Low End Inspiration, I grabbed a Hetzner Auction Server! It's been awhile since I had a server at Hetzner. I wanted something for a few new projects. I haven't decide...
Read MoreWhen Gmail got going, they allowed people to setup email with custom domains, so naturally all of you did. Then they took that feature away and said if you want that, you have to pay, but legacy accou...
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Previously we made KVM VPses with Qemu's default slirp networking. This time we will set up networking with Qemu so each Virtual Machine can have its own IP address. With slirp, we didn't have...
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Go to any random web page and look at the source and you'll see a variety of image file formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP. As a viewer, you don't care because your browser renders all of the...
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Life Is Good In Mexico! Everything about visiting Mexico has been wonderful! The people here are very kind, very friendly, and completely welcoming. The food is great, and life is peaceful. I have onl...
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Editorial Comment: Grrrrr...thanks a lot, TOM! Now you've given me yet another useless hobby. -- raindog308 Almost everybody knows that Unix was developed at Bell Labs and that Linux and many other c...
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Many readers from the LowEnd community will see this headline and say "well of course, traditional VPS is ___ and cloud is ___ and it's so obvious." However, our mission here at LowEndBox is to evang...
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I've been doing a ton of Python coding lately and one thing I've really appreciated is how easy it is to implement a plugin system. When would you use this? If you're shipping code, you may want to i...
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Route48's Free Tunnel Broker Service Route48.org provides free IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel broker service as well as many additional services via a well designed, fast, and easy to use web interface. Route48...
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