@jaredbusch said in Fedora Update Breaks httpd:

So, if you followed the original instructions, you can use this to fix it.

sed -i "s/access\.log/httpd\/access_log/" /etc/httpd/conf.d/bookstack.conf

Then start apache.

systemctl start httpd

As always, thanks @JaredBusch that fixed it for me as well.

@aaronstuder said in SSDNodes - Anyone used these for hosting?:

Hey Aaron,

Thanks for sending this over.

We will be offering more operating systems in the future, by offering LTS OSes now we can ensure the quality of our service.

We’ve also been in business for almost 7 years, the annual pricing is lower since we’re able to pass on significant savings with the annual commitment.

Matt Connor
Founder & CEO
Strasmore, Inc.

How does offering LTS improve quality? Sure lowers it for me. And after seven years they've never gotten around to offering a current OS?

I usually use smartctl
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools

@jaredbusch said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@tim_g said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

@guyinpv said in Interesting Take On A Wiki - Testing Now:

That's right. 9 steps to install it via Composer. All that worked except for forcing https which didn't work on my WAMP.

I'm doing it again on cPanel but have to finish tomorrow.

why don't you do it on Linux following JB's guide?

Because this guy is worse than @Dashrender about doing things the hard way.

That's funny. Their tutorial was far less hard than yours, and yours didn't cover my environment. But thanks anyway.

I was on a WHM/cPanel setup on a VPS. While I did have SSH access as root, I used my cpanel user only at first. Apache and MySQL, not Nginx and MariaDB. But anyhoo.

Problem 1: Changing documentroot for Apache. I had the host do this, even though I could do it from root. Otherwise use of /public folder wouldn't work. Anybody on a cPanel would have to do this. If the site is an "addon" domain, it's easy, but if it's the primary domain (as mine was), the process is a little more involved.

Problem 2: I got a "No input file specified" blank page when trying to open it. This apparently had something to do with using fastCGI or PHP-FPM or something. Again the host made a server change, I believe all they did was turn off PHP-FPM. (this site is using PHP 7.2).

Problem 3: After fixing that, the site was redirecting to the /login address but simply went to 404. To fix this, I had to do a bunch of Composer things, update Composer itself, global self-update, enable fopen urls until finally Composer had no warnings or errors when updating. When I first ran composer update, it downloaded everything and created the vendor folder, but apparently it still couldn't work because of version issues between Laravel and artisan and composer or some weird nonsense. I needed su ability to get composer updated here.

Problem 4: Nothing worked yet, because when the host messed with PHP it generated a new htaccess file and left out all the stuff in the default one. I fixed that up.

Problem 5: Site now loads without 404 error, but instead just throws a server 500. The Illuminate package had permission errors writing in the Storage folder even with 755 permissions. To fix this (as other suggested online), I set folders to 777.
Then I had to run artisan cache:clear and composer dump-autoload. In general I always thought 777 was anathema but that's what everybody said to do.

I finally got the freaking login after that.

Problem 6: It still couldn't upload files to the uploads folder, so again had to go set 777. For the heck of it, I went and set bootstrap/cache to 777 too since that is the third folder they wanted to ensure write access. Now pictures could upload.

Now finally the installation is working.

Just by way of reference for anybody else who uses a cPanel setup. Composer was just there already on the VPS, but not up to date. And when using su, the Composer path is not set in globals so I had to reference full path.
Documentroot needs changed (including addition config if using SSL).
Potentially FastCGI issues. Some of this can be changed from WHM.
Give full 777 folder permissions.

Profit.

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

@jaredbusch said in Home Lab Project:

@thwr said in Home Lab Project:

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

Logging, like Graylog2?

This. Maybe Sexilog.

Interesting package. can it easily monitor more then VMWare? Or did they only setup listeners for VMWare?

Only VMware last time that I looked at it.

Windows, Veeam, SNMP and more.
http://www.sexilog.fr/features/

@black3dynamite said in Should I backup my file server VM or just the files?:

@scottalanmiller said in Should I backup my file server VM or just the files?:

@jaredbusch said in Should I backup my file server VM or just the files?:

Scott likes to talk like everyone uses state systems when that is far from the case.

Scott likes to talk like everyone should use state systems, which is nearly always the case.

But even if you don't, if you have automated rebuild and install scripts, or use cloud computing, you rarely want to restore the whole thing rather than just the data. It's way more than just state systems. We've been doing this since long before state systems were a thing.

With a stand-alone windows file server is not so bad redeploying it with the help of powershell. But it’s so different compare to Linux.

Yes, much more work for sure. But no matter what OS you use, no matter what your backup situation is, you should have a rapid new deployment system to rebuild systems whether it is script, state, or whatever.

@jaredbusch said in Change to Strongarm Home Version:

@stacksofplates said in Change to Strongarm Home Version:

Welp there goes another good product.

How? The business product remains unchanged minus branding (so far).

Free home service as a marketing driver makes sense for a new company but not for an established one like WatchGuard

Well I just meant for home. It's not expensive or anything. I guess I just meant the situation sucks, that's all.

@jaredbusch I already had those changes made and even after the upgrade nothing had been changed. Here is what worked...

Had to add the server private IP address to the trusted domains in the Nextcloud config file Restart the web service Navigate to the internal IP instead of the domain

That allowed me to complete the setup.

@nashbrydges said in New Client - Windows 10 Upgrade Path:

Windows image rights and it is certainly an option I'll present but need to provide the cost alternatives for the upgrade path. In my mind, hardware + Windows image rights + Windows licenses = less costly option rather than my team doing in-place upgrades.

This is stupid for the scale. You will spend way too much time prepping images for no reason.

You can install a clean Win 10 almost just as fast as an image. and then you do not have the pain of MS VLSC tracking.

Imaging is nice when it fits the problem, but not for this.

@mattspeller said in RAID5 Still The Go-To Setup For SSD?:

@jaredbusch said in RAID5 Still The Go-To Setup For SSD?:

@hobbit666 said in RAID5 Still The Go-To Setup For SSD?:

@nashbrydges Nice looking rack 🙂

old school actually with round holes. do not see that much.

I'd gladly trade the round holes for my square hole racks with the nutcerts that have me impaling my hand with a screwdriver a few times a year.

Hear hear!

@Sodium @QuixoticJeremy

@coliver said in Recommended FreePBX Commercial Modules?:

Not necessarily an add-on from shmooze but FOP2 is phenomenal.

This is a great tool, really cheap and you can use it on Freeswitch as well. Also easy to change the GUI to a more modern interface.

Cloudflare here. I recently enabled DNSSEC. Super easy.

I haven’t tried it but process substitution may work if you enable envsubst.

So rather than an include you might just be able to do:

$( nslookup domain.com | yada yada)

Driving so don’t feel like typing out anything.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/15267/how-to-allow-site-access-in-nginx-by-ddns-instead-of-by-ip

Ouch, now that is a serious bit of embarrassment.

@IRJ said in Caddy vs. Nginx:

@JaredBusch said in Caddy vs. Nginx:

You have to compile yourself if you want to use commercially.

This is not something I will ever want to use because of that.

Yeah that's kinda lame, but not a deal breaker. Nginx has to be compiled for more advanced use cases like WAF or certain HAProxy features.

It's a bit of a bitch, but once you script it. It isn't too bad to do upgrades going forward.

that doesn't seem to be a limitation anymore. I didn't see it on their documentation.

Also I didn't realize Arden Labs made this. That's pretty cool.

@hobbit666 said in CrashPlan Getting Out of the Home Backup Business:

I'm interested in getting something for my Mum, as she has large amounts of photos (not in size just in numbers)

Think I wont more of an archive system, as today she might have photos from 2001 - 2017 filling her HD, so if I deleted them, then after the next "backup" ran these would disappear? next time the backup is ran???

Yes, this is how backups work.

What you are wanting is storage, not a backup.

@quixoticjustin said in Sodium Agent: Which ports:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium Agent: Which ports:

@quixoticjustin said in Sodium Agent: Which ports:

That's correct. We encrypt on both authentication and on payload. We should make an FAQ page about that. Another item for the task list 😉

So many things to do, so little time.

Yeah, the task list is just getting longer and longer.

Speaking of which, have you been watching your burn down list grow? haha

But let's face it, my list of work is ALWAYS massive. (which is a good thing)

This upcoming release will allow users to fully delete tickets (and all information that is tied to the ticket).