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How to generate a Self Signed SSL Certificate for lighttpd

November 23rd, 2011

Follow this tutorial to setup your Linux lighttpd server with a self signed SSL certificate. The server we use in this example is Debian based, but it should work with most distro’s.

Scheduling a daily Cron task in Debian to check external IP

July 31st, 2011

Build a cron task in debian to check your public IP. Great for hosting local websites.

How to copy an entire folder in Linux

June 4th, 2011

The command for copying entire folders under Linux.

lighttpd configuration to redirect subdomains

February 27th, 2011

For our NeoInvoice project, all requests to the server’s sub-domains are sent right to the main server. This means someone can go to www.neoinvoice.com, ex1.neoinvoice.com, etc. Search engines don’t like to see duplicate content on web servers, cookies being saved on one sub-domain aren’t accessible to another, there are all sorts of problems with this. [...]

Apache2 Outperforming lighttpd 1.5

February 8th, 2011

Here’s an output of top on my VPS running Ubuntu 10.04. The first output is while a server was running Apache2 (and lighttpd on a secondary port). The Apache2 instances were under heavy stress testing at the time, and their total CPU was 30.2%. In the second output, lighttpd had taken over as the main [...]

Installing lighttpd on Ubuntu 10.04

February 3rd, 2011

On a VPS with 512 MB of RAM, installing a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and the trimmings (eaccelerator @ 40MB, memcached @ 40MB) eats up a LOT of RAM (in my particular case, about 480 MB). In an attempt to bring the amount of RAM usage down, I was looking through the results [...]

Installing PECL :: ncurses on Ubuntu 10.04

January 19th, 2011

I recently had the task of installing the PHP PECL extension ncurses on my Ubuntu 10.04 (Desktop) machine. PECL is a repository manager for PHP extensions. Ncurses is a tool for doing all sorts of awesome command line terminal stuff, such as colors, building windows, updating part of the screen instead of the entire screen, [...]

Guide to installing ClipShare 4.1 on a Linux VPS

July 28th, 2009

This guide is currently incomplete, and will likely stay incomplete since we didn’t keep notes and don’t plan on ever installing the application again. Hopefully these introductory steps will help. This is a technical guide detailing the steps a person has to go through to install ClipShare 4.1 on their web-server. Firstly, you’ll need a [...]

FFMPEG installation compile erors

July 28th, 2009

We recently attempting to compile ffmpeg 0.5 on a web server, and had the following errors: In file included from libavdevice/v4l.c:32: /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:56: error: syntax error before “ulong” /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:72: error: syntax error before ‘}’ token libavdevice/v4l.c: In function `grab_read_header’: libavdevice/v4l.c:77: error: storage size of ‘tuner’ isn’t known libavdevice/v4l.c:141: error: invalid application of `sizeof’ to incomplete type [...]

Running an Exploit Against a Server

April 16th, 2008

This paper was originally written by Thomas Hunter as an assignment for college. The objective was to hack into a supplied Linux server and gain root access. By typing the ip address of the server into a browser window, you are greeted with a default web server installation page. Reading some of the content reveals [...]