Cloud

Firebase Rest on Raspberry Pi

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I’ve tried to use Google’s Firebase with the Firebase Admin SDK in my C# project. The good news is that the Admin SDK is easy to use and all you need to do is call two methods. The authentication part is handled by an environment variable which points to some .json file which you download. The bad news is that … Read more

Ditching Apache2 for Nginx

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Hello, I wanted to self host my WordPress blog and for that I’ve chosen Digital Ocean (referral link). Because I’m lazy and I don’t know how to configure web servers that well I’ve used DigitalOcean’s WordPress one click install, the package installed WordPress and did the following things: Enables the UFW firewall to allow only SSH (port 22, rate limited), … Read more

Setting up a simple DNS server

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Right after I’ve configured the FTP server, I wanted to be able to “name” my server and so I’ve installed a lightweight DNS server. (context: previous article) “dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS, TFTP, PXE, router advertisement and DHCP server. It is intended to provide coupled DNS and DHCP service to a LAN.” I’ve chosen this over the bind 9 dns server because it … Read more

Installing and configuring an anonymous VSFTPD server

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After spending a good part of my weekend fiddling with VSFTPD, I’m very happy that I managed to get it to work properly. My goal was to create a simple, anonymous and private FTP server for my home network. It should facilitate sharing files between my machines. Configuring the Server If you’d like to try out my configuration all you … Read more