Phasing out OwnCloud and the Triumphant Arrival of BTSync
I posted over a year ago about installing and using Owncloud, a Dropbox type personal file-sync system complete with encryption. It does, however, take a good deal of installation and specialized configuration. And with every step of complexity causes more opportunities to mess something up royal and to bang my head against the wall in horrified disgust […]
WordPress Pretty Links
I had a heck of a time getting this to work, and this is just as much for my notes as it is for the wider web world’s usage. To use the pretty links of WordPress, I had to enable mod_rewrite in Apache. Which was actually already enabled with my default installation. I was using […]
MySql Backups
MySQL is a fantastic open source database management system that manages data for a huge number of incredibly popular websites. Twitter, Google, Facebook and YouTube all use MySQL to store and recall data, and thanks to the amazing movement of open source so can we! Personally, I use MySQL for storage of a number of […]
Apache Setup
Apache is remarkably easy to get running. It is all governed by the service daemon “httpd” and can be installed easily with a yum or apt-get install command if it didn’t come packaged with your distribution. Any repository that was preinstalled should have it easily available. The yum command in CentOS would be: yum install […]
Owncloud Part 2
After some research it became pretty clear that getting SSL to work with a private key would be simple. You must make sure that openssl is installed, and yum installing it should do everything required to get that working. # Generate private key openssl genrsa -out ca.key 1024 # Generate CSR openssl req -new -key […]
Owncloud Part 1
OwnCloud is a DropBox-type file-sync system that is open source and free for use. Implementing OwnCloud was troublesome for me at first, as it had moments where it was easy as pie, and moments where I lost the will to continue living in a world where I couldn’t control my own Linux machine. The initial […]
Rolling Out WordPress
Rolling out WordPress was actually the last of the administrative acts I have accomplished on this server, and it was by far the easiest of the implementations. I feel sheepish even calling it an implementation. It was almost embarrassingly easy to get it up and running. I downloaded the latest version of WordPress from the […]
Second Time Around
This is another go around for doing site administration. I’m doing this via a virtual server, so we’ll see how well it translates. It’s definitely exciting, and I feel like it should work out well, VirtualBox allows for snapshots and backing up as easy as setting a Belvedere timed copy command.