How to password protect an NGINX website
Here are the steps to password protect an NGINX website: 1. Logon to the server You need SSH to solve this problem. 2. Create a
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Excessive logging of TCP_IN Blocked messages on a WHM server
Background Whilst observing a WHM/cPanel’s log file using tail -f /var/log/messages you might observe 1000s of events, sometimes every few seconds, similar to the following:
Failed to load nf_conntrack module when starting FirewallD
Problem Description Upon starting FirewallD you might encounter the error listed hereunder. This particular behavior was observed on a new installation of Virtualmin/Webmin. Sep 19
How to enable SSH for GCE
If you’re hosting a Linux box with Google Cloud Engine, SSH will be disabled by default. There are pretty good reasons for this, especially brute
Access to font at xxx from origin yyy has been blocked by CORS policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource
About CORS Cross-origin resource sharing is a way to share libraries and fonts across multiple servers. However, in order to avoid security issues, many servers
How to use Fail2ban to block errand 404s on a WordPress/Apache website
About Fail2ban blocking 404s for Apache websites These days hackers scan your website for any known vulnerability. For example, they might run scripts that track
How to see a list of Fail2ban IPs
About Fail2ban IP blocking Fail2ban is fantastic Linux security software that blocks multiple authentication failures on a Linux host. The beauty of this software is
How to generate a strong and secure password
There are numerous services on the internet that allows one to generate a secure and strong password. Most Password Managers have the option to generate
How to store your Github credentials username and password so that you don’t have to type it every time on the command line
First do: git config credential.helper store Then do: git pull Warning: The storage format is a .git-credentials file, stored in plain-text! You might want to do
How to recover a Linux Mint / Ubuntu System’s Root Password
This article explains how to get your Linux system password reset. To reset your lost or fogotten password: Reboot your computer / Turn your computer