Quick post on how to setup HTTP Basic Authentication and whitelist IP Based Sources to not get prompted for Authentication. This could be useful for systems interacting with Nginx, so that they don't have to provide authentication. Dependencies:
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Setup Payara Java Application Server on Ubuntu 16.04
Today we will setup Payara 5 on Ubuntu 16.04 About: Payara is an Open Source Java Application Server. Pre-Requirements: Update and Install Java 8: $ apt update && apt upgrade -y $ apt-get install wget curl unzip software-properties-common python-software-properties -y
Create a Logical Storage Volume using LVM on Ubuntu
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) - adds an extra layer between the physical disks and the file system, which allows you to resize your storage on the fly, use multiple disks, instead of one, etc. Concepts: Physical Volume: * Physical Volume represents
Expanding the Size of your EBS Volume on AWS EC2 for Linux
Resizing your EBS Volume on the fly, that is attached to your EC2 Linux instance, on Amazon Web Services. We want to resize our EBS Volume from 100GB to 1000GB and at the moment my EBS Volume is 100GB, as
Setup a NFS Server on Ubuntu
Quick post on how to setup a NFS Server on Ubuntu and how to setup a mount point on the client side to interact with the NFS Server. Server Side: In this post 10.8.133.83 will be the
Setup a Site to Site IPSec VPN with Strongswan on Ubuntu
Today we will setup a Site to Site ipsec VPN with Strongswan, which will be configured with PreShared Key Authentication. After our tunnels are established, we will be able to reach the private ips over the vpn tunnels. Get the
How to Setup a 2 Node Elasticsearch Cluster on CentOS 7 with some Example Usage
Elasticsearch, A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine Today we will Setup a 2 Node Elasticsearch Cluster on CentOS 7 and go through some API examples on creating indexes, ingesting documents, searches etc. But before we get to that, let&
How to setup a Gateway to Gateway VPN using IPSec on CentOS
In this tutorial we will setup a gateway to gateway IPSec VPN using OpenSwan. The Scenario: The scenario we will use in this guide will be specifically in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, where we will be establishing a
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