Top 5 GNU/Linux editors for 2018
1. vim 2. vim 3. vim 4. vim 5. vim Honorable mention: vim As you can see, it is going to be a good year!…
Ghost
I've decided to revive my site, in the hopes to do a little bit of writing again, basically making myself a necromancer. Wordpress has fallen from grace, and Ghost has taken its place, as Ghost feels like a better match for my needs. Ghost is not the full-fledged…
Puppet Enterprise 3.3, jfryman/nginx SERVER: Invalid parameter ensure on Concat
If you ever encounter the follwing error on Puppet Enterprise 3.3, using the nginx 0.0.10 module by jfryman: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid parameter ensure on Concat[/etc/nginx/conf.d/fpm-upstream.conf] at /opt/eelpuppet/modules/develop/nginx/…
XenServer: Unable to find partition containing kernel
One of our users at Loeniks managed to break his Debian VM. After upgrading to Debian 6, he tried upgrading his bootloader to Grub 2. XenServer’s paravirtualized bootloader (pygrub) is unable to handle the newest version of the Grub bootloader in virtual machines, this results in a nice and…
Wordpress MU, NGINX and FastCGI on CentOS
Since my VPS at Loeniks is somewhat limited in resources, and because Apache has no trouble claiming all these resources, I took it upon myself to find an alternative. Lighttpd (lighty) and NGINX (engine-x) were both possible replacements. Both offered the ability to parse PHP scripts using a FastCGI implementation.…
Blocking unwanted guests with NGINX
Lately, my sites are being hammered by “unwanted behavior”. Because I feel I cannot blindly trust my WordPress installs to be 100% bug-free, I like to block as many of these unwanted behaviors before any PHP code is executed on my server. Currently, I use the following NGINX techniques to…
Referrer spam (200912-01)
Recently I’ve been noticing a referrer spammer targeting my sites from the IP address 94.102.63.60. Trying to promote aimtrust and theinvestblog. Since there doesnt seem to be any abuse-related email address in the whois info for that address, and the @nl.iqarus.com address doesn’t…