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Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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FreeBSD, Nginx and htpasswd file generation

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

On most Linux distros it is possible to generate the htpasswd file entries simply using the htpasswd command line util.
On FreeBSD the easiest way to accomplish the same task is using OpenSSL itself:


openssl passwd -apr1

Enter the password twice to get a nice hash, copy that in the htpasswd file with the usual user:password_hash syntax.

FreeBSD, NGINX and TLSv1.3

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

After a six months hiatus here is a new blogpost.
This saturday I finally found the time to upgrade the configuration of the server that hosts this very website.
Software stack is pretty simple: FreeBSD (version 12.0-p6),nginx (version 1.15.10) and OpenSSL (version 1.1.1a-freebsd).

Install the required software:


$ pkg install nginx-devel py36-certbot

Get a SSL certificate from letsencrypt:


$ certbot-3.6 certonly --standalone -d domain.tld -d www.domain.tld

Certfiles location is /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain.tld>, you might, or might not, want to move them to another directory.

FreeBSD network performance on KVM/Qemu

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Today I red an article that was comparing Fedora 29 and FreeBSD 11.2 network performance in a KVM/Qemu environment.
Since I use KVM/Qemu and also Fedora and Freebsd I powered on a couple of vm and did my own tests.
Results are quite interesting, I expected FreeBSD to be faster but it turns out Fedora 29 actually is.
Host system configuration:


CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x @4 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte X370 K7 - BIOS F23d
RAM: 2x16 GB DDR4 @3133 MHz CAS 16
HDD: Some Samsung SSD

Operating systems
Host: Fedora 29 x86_64
Fedora VM0: Fedora 29 X86_64
Fedora VM1: Fedora 29 X86_64
FreeBSD VM0: FreeBSD 11.2 x86_64
FreeBSD VM1: FreeBSD 11.2 x86_64

Virtualization techonology: Qemu+KVM
Linux kernel version: 4.18.17-300.fc29.x86_64

What I did was setup 2 hidentical Fedora 29 virtual machines and 2 hidentical FreeBSD 11.2 virtual machines, every one of them had iperf3 installed on it.

Nginx, PHP-FPM caching done right

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:38:54 +0000

The whole web is full of pseudo guides on how to properly - that is the key word here - configure Nginx to perform caching alongside with PHP-FPM, but every single one of them fails to mention some minor steps resulting in a borked half functioning implementation.
For example, not a single one mention the necessity to edit /etc/php.ini and set session.use_cookies to 0.
Too bad that without doing so caching with WordPress in combination with certain plugins or themes (for example MainWP or Enfold theme) is completely not working; the following headers get added to every HTTP response: