CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 updated repo after its EOL Rumi, July 26, 2024February 23, 2025 For CentOS 7 mirrorlist.centos.org doesn’t exists anymore. So, your default repor wwith yum doesn’t work. Try using the following processes, it worked for me, hope this works for others as well. sed -i s/mirror.centos.org/vault.centos.org/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo sed -i s/^#.*baseurl=http/baseurl=http/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo sed -i s/^mirrorlist=http/#mirrorlist=http/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo Ref: https://serverfault.com/questions/1161816/mirrorlist-centos-org-no-longer-resolve For CentOS 8 sed -i… Continue Reading
XCP-NG few basic command lines- CLI Rumi, July 3, 2024July 3, 2024 Run the following command to list VMs and their UUIDs: xe vm-list resident-on=<uuid_of_host> Try the shutdown command with force: xe vm-shutdown uuid=<uuid_of_vm> force=true Restart the toolstack on the host by using the following command: xe-toolstack-restart Restart the host. shutdown -r now If the VM is still not shutdown, you might… Continue Reading
MOTD with NeoFetch Rumi, July 1, 2024July 3, 2024 Install NetoFetch First: sudo apt install neofetch sudo cp motd.sh /etc/profile.d/motd.sh sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/motd.sh Open the motd.sh filw using text editor and paste below: #!/bin/bash printf “\n” neofetch Exit from shell and re-login- Voila! Continue Reading
Install LetsEncrypt on Debian with Nginx Server Rumi, June 30, 2024 Install Certbot and its Nginx plugin with apt: sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx Certbot provides a variety of ways to obtain SSL certificates through plugins. The Nginx plugin will take care of reconfiguring Nginx and reloading the config whenever necessary. To use this plugin, type the following: sudo certbot –nginx -d… Continue Reading
Reset XCP-ng root password Rumi, June 28, 2024 The full prodecure can also be found on xcp-ng site. Reboot your XCP-ng into Grub boot menu. Select XCP-ng boot menu entry and press e key to edit boot options. Locate the read-only parameter ro and replace it with rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh. Press Ctrl + X to boot into single-mode. From… Continue Reading
Creating 1:1 NAT using iptables Rumi, June 8, 2024 Its a POC where I needed a 1:1 NAT using Linux iptables. I used 2 Debian 11 OS for this and here’s the machine IP plans- VM-1: IPTables/NAT Router- 123.45.67.5/24, 123.45.67.6/24 and 192.168.10.5/24 VM-2: Backend Server- 192.168.10.6/24 (this VM’s gateway will be 192.168.10.5 On VM-1 Uninstall nftables and its Dependencies… Continue Reading
Install LAMP- Apache, PHP 7.4 with Apache Handler on Debian 12 Rumi, June 7, 2024June 7, 2024 Well, it’s not perfectly a LAMP stack as MySQL and PHPMYadmin are not covered here. But for someone who needs a backward compatible php edition to work on a modern/latest os built. Step1: Add PHP repository We’ll use a bash script to add the repository- #!/bin/sh # To add this… Continue Reading
Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Debian 10 Rumi, March 23, 2024 Step 1 — Installing Certbot The first step to using Let’s Encrypt to obtain an SSL certificate is to install the Certbot software on your server. Installing the python3-certbot-nginx package from the Debian repositories will allow us to install and use Cerbot’s nginx plugin. Working with Python 3 and the… Continue Reading
Administrations Set Up and Use Syncthing to Sync Files on Linux Rumi, March 23, 2024 Syncthing is a powerful, decentralized, open-source file synchronization software that allows users to easily and securely synchronize files between different devices and platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, making it a versatile solution for individuals and organizations. In addition, it uses a peer-to-peer architecture, meaning that files are synchronized… Continue Reading
Create Jellyfin CDN using Nginx Rumi, March 20, 2024March 23, 2024 user www-data; worker_processes auto; pid /run/nginx.pid; include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf; events { worker_connections 768; # multi_accept on; } http { ## # Basic Settings ## sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; tcp_nodelay on; keepalive_timeout 65; types_hash_max_size 2048; # server_tokens off; # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64; # server_name_in_redirect off; include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; ## # SSL Settings… Continue Reading