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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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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When a new host comes along, one of the standard checks I make is to ensure that they are not using a cracked version of WHMCS. Since time immemorial, the LowEndTalk selling rules have stated that "U...
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As you may have noticed, we've give the place a fresh paint job, spackled over some rough spots, and had someone with some actual taste (no offense LEAdmin) come in and renovate things. Welcome to Low...
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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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Besides Low End Box and Low End Talk, one of the great joys of my days has been reading Hacker News. Anybody interested in computers and the internet will find Hacker News, always referred to as "HN,"...
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Low 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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On some gear-oriented YouTube channels, people will do pocket dumps or bag dumps where they'll show you everything that they carry on a daily basis. These are things like phones, chargers, multitools...
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We live in a push world, and if you prefer to get deals, posts, and news delivered to you in an app, we can help with that. We're on major social media platforms and we're growing our content there. ...
Read MoreLast 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...
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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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Introduction You easily can launch your own additional KVM VPSes on your own existing Linux machine! Do you want to try a different Linux distribution? Or try a different setup of your favorite distri...
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As you can probably tell by this being the second Python article this weekend, I've been doing a bit of Python coding, both at work and at home. It's a pleasant language to work in, and one of Python...
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This is the third in our series on USENET. Previous articles: USENET Part 1: Wasn't USENET Part of AOL or Something Back in the Dial-Up Days? USENET Part 2: Spambots, Scientology Wars, and the Intern...
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I've been working on a small app written in golang, and I'd like my local-area network connections to the golang-embedded webserver to be over https. Most of the clients are going to be scripts runni...
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I have a set of domains that I renew every year and this year I decided not to renew them at NameSilo. As a registrar, I've never had an issue with NameSilo. However, their service has some things th...
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The community's favorite CDN provider, Bunny.net, has introduced BunnyDNS. So for 99% of us, it's another option for DNS hosting, and because it's Bunny and they have a premium CDN network through the...
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I've setup a home virtualization lab using ProxMox, which is a free and very powerful virtualization host. Prior to ProxMox, I tried: VmWare ESXi: No clones in the free version? See ya. XCP-ng: Got s...
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In the mid-70s, my father worked in the American automotive industry in Michigan, and I visited him at work as a small boy. He took me into the "computer room" (as they used to call datacenters) and...
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One of our community's favorite registrars, Porkbun, is having a sale on domains: Get a .COM for only $4.75! Or a .NET for only $5.50! These prices are only good through February 28, 2022, so act now!...
Read MoreGreat tutorials should be concise. How concise? How about 27 words? LowEndBox would like to give a shout-out to LowEndTalk member @skorupian setting a new world record for the shortest quality tutor...
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Besides sharing great deals on cheap VPS, cheap shared, and cheap dedi servers, LowEndBox's mission also includes equipping our readers with technical education, industry infotainment, and quality res...
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Hey you, business owner! Imagine someone told you that you could get all of the following as a package deal: Free advertising that reaches nearly every potential purchaser in your core markets A free...
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Do you still use USB thumb drives? Flash or SD or MicroSD cards? Portable hard drives? Even in this age of ubiquitous cloud, there's still a ton of bits and bytes being carried around in people's ba...
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When you think of streaming services, you may be familiar with some of the tedious run-of-the-mill services such as Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, etc. They all off there same uninspiring, recycled ideas su...
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The staff and ownership of LowEndBox would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you for reading LowEndBox this year and we look forward to see you again in 2021 as we post mor...
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