This post will get your WordPress installation working on NFS. The first post walked through setting up the NFS database. And the third post will show you how to turn on HTTPS. Download WordPress The next step is to download WordPress to NFS. Some basic knowledge is assumed here so hopefully you know how to SSH…
Continue reading →NearlyFreeSpeech (NFS) is a bare bones service provider for people who know what they are doing. This makes it a bit more involved in setting up things which other hosting providers may make a bit more straightforward. I’ll walk you through the process of getting WordPress working on a NearlyFreeSpeech hosted site over the next…
Continue reading →NFS allows you to use keys to log into your SSH sessions. This is much easier and more secure than remembering a password. You can set this up really easily by doing the following… First we need to generate a SSH key. Let’s use the putty keygen tool to do that. You can download it…
Continue reading →This quick guide to sending automated alerts to you whenever your server or computer starts up should work for any Ubuntu distribution, and in fact most other linux distros. We’ll create a nice simple script to send you a notification when your server starts up. Generally you’ll be the one turning on your server so…
Continue reading →I’ve put together a short series on the jobs I have running on my NAS on a regular basis which I rely on to backup various config files or even the whole filesystem, or to monitor the health of my hard drives. Feel free to copy should you wish. This script backs up & emails…
Continue reading →Pushbullet (https://www.pushbullet.com/) is a great tool which can be used on most devices to send notes, pictures, links, etc. For our purposes we can make use of it to send notifications from our NAS to our computer and/or phones. I find this much more convenient than email notifications and have been gradually replacing my email…
Continue reading →This short guide will allow you to have your NAS send out email notifications with one command on the command line. You can then integrate this into various scripts etc to notify you when events happen (e.g. back script completes). To do this you’ll need a Gmail account (use an existing one or make a…
Continue reading →As I talked about in this post, I ploughed on with making a 64 LED cube controlled by my Arduino Uno. I was planning on fully documenting the process but I honestly couldn’t make a better guide than the one I followed in making it. Hats off to Matt who made this guide over at ‘Tech…
Continue reading →The guides on this website often require that commands are run on a regular basis or run when your machine starts up. This is very easily done with the command scheduling tool built into Linux. This is known as cron, or crontab (short for cron table, I believe). The easiest way I’ve found to add…
Continue reading →It was my birthday recently so I treated myself to an Arduino Uno! I know I haven’t really made much progress on my Raspberry Pi project (kitchen calender, media player for videos and spotify, weather station, …) but I’d had my eye on an Arduino for a few years. The trouble now is that I…
Continue reading →Sometimes you just want to have a removable USB drive that you can move easily between linux, MAC and/or Windows PCs. The easiest way is to use the Windows filesystems as there is compatibility (sometimes with a bit of config such as this) across the board. First install DOS file system tools… apt-get install dosfstools…
Continue reading →Since my NAS melted slightly (here) I decided to rethink my approach to storage on the device. I would always lean towards a RAID if I needed redundancy and I have used RAID5 successfully in the past. I had been using an LVM volume but when I came to replace my burnt disk, the LVM…
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