Accessing private network using pritunl VPN Rumi, June 30, 2020 This tutorial will describe securing access to a private network using a Pritunl server. The diagram below shows the network topology for this tutorial. First remove the 0.0.0.0/0 route from the server. This route tunnels all internet traffic over the vpn, for this setup only the traffic for the private… Continue Reading
Apache error fix on Forbidden You don’t have permission to access this resource Rumi, June 30, 2020 Tested and works on Debian/Ubuntu apache installation. For this open the apache2.conf file using the nano editor sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Replace the general directory settings with this. <Directory /> #Options FollowSymLinks Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order deny,allow Require all granted </Directory><Directory /usr/share> AllowOverride None Require all granted… Continue Reading
Install Pritunl on Ubuntu 16 Rumi, June 29, 2020 Update your bare-bone and freshly installed Ubuntu 16 system. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Add Pritunl’s APT repository and update the package lists: echo “deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list echo “deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt trusty main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list Add repo keys for apt to validate against apt-key adv –keyserver… Continue Reading
Install Discourse Forum with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 Rumi, June 26, 2020 Step 1 – Install Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 The Discourse software is written in Ruby and Javascript, using PostgreSQL as the main database, and Redis as a cache and for transient data. We will install Discourse under the Docker container. The installation process will be carried out on Ubuntu… Continue Reading
Linux Monitoring using Grafana InfluxDB and Telegraf on Debian 10 Rumi, June 19, 2020 The basic installation of Grafana InfluxDB and Telegraf is described in my other post here- Install Grafna, InfluxDB, Telegraf for Jitsi Video Meet Monitoring on Debian 10 All is needed is to create a telegraf configuration file: nano /etc/telegraf.d/dashboard.conf # Global tags can be specified here in key=”value” format. [global_tags] #… Continue Reading
Install Netbox on Docker Rumi, June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 The first thing to do is the installation of Docker. To do this, open a terminal window and issue the following commands: Install Docker with the command: sudo apt-get install docker.io -y Add your user to the docker group with the command: sudo usermod -aG docker $USER. Log out and… Continue Reading
Install Grafna, InfluxDB, Telegraf for Jitsi Video Meet Monitoring on Debian 10 Rumi, June 18, 2020 Step 1: Install InfluxDB apt update && apt install -y gnupg2 curl wget wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add – echo “deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian buster stable” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list apt update && apt install influxdb -y systemctl enable –now influxdb systemctl status influxdb If you run a firewall (i.e…. Continue Reading
Install RClone for synching Server contents to Cloud storage- google drive, onedrive, dropbox or own/nextcloud Rumi, June 18, 2020 Use case with Jibri Recorded content to push to cloud storage operators. Rclone installation (Debian 10) All below commands are executed as ‘root’. (I know!..) apt update apt install curl -y curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | bash Rclone is now installed. We need to find where rclone expects it’s config file: rclone… Continue Reading
Fixing Slow Windows VM boot on Proxmox KVM with balloon driver Rumi, June 18, 2020 Download the Win-Virtio Driver and load it on VM CDRom Drive. Download can be found here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers Now install the Virtio Balloon driver AND the Balloon service in the guest as follows: Open Device Manager and see if there is an unknown PCI device. If so, right click it and… Continue Reading
How to increase memory size for MySQL Server Rumi, June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 To increase the memory size for a MySQL Server, follow these steps: 1.Enter management mode by typing your password and pressing Enter twice. Select Exit to terminal using the arrow keys and then press Enter 2.Type: nano /etc/my.cnf 3.Locate the line innodb_buffer_pool_size = 1024M and change the number to 50%… Continue Reading