Since 5.3-Release, FreeBSD has gmirror utility, which allows you create software RAID1. So if you have some low-end server and you need some redundancy – gmirror is right choice.
RAID1 creation process is very simple and completely described in gmirror(8) man page, but i will post small how-to here.
Continue Reading…I still like SquidGuard as a squid redirector and I use a couple of perl scripts to maintain the proxy blacklists from Urlblacklist.com. But in order to get the perl DB_File module working with the same version of BerkleyDB (3) that SquidGuard requires it is needed to change the default make file from the FreeBSD portstree
Continue Reading…If you want to protect a lan network from viruses downloaded from Internet, an interesting solution is to use Squid proxy with Clamav antivirus. This setup was tested succesfuly on FreeBSD 6.1 (it shoud work in 5.4 too).
You can find the howto here
Continue Reading…This describes howto use a OpenVPN client installed on windows to connect to a VPN concentrator installed on a FreeBSD box protected by PF.
Continue Reading…Although I prefer Ruby/Rails cms/blog systems like Radiant CMS, I sometimes have to live with php based solutions. I found a rather good CMS system called ModX with has all kind of Ajax bells and whistles and is very flexible. But like many other PHP based solutions it requires url rewriting to let it work with search engine friendly url’s. Out of the box it has a .htaccess to let it work with Apache. The following snippet describes how to setup the rewriting rules for lighttpd:
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