Install Virtual Box in Ubuntu Mate and run Windows XP
We installed Virtual Box on Linux Mate through the App Grid. Virtual Box can run software that you otherwise only can run in Windows…
Performance tips for Redis Cache Server
We previously wrote about how to install Redis Cache Server in Ubuntu. And now when we used it for a while…
Update your Nginx config with the latest IP ranges from Cloudflare
This is now automated in a script and available here. Cloudflare uses different IP ranges, and they change frequently. And…
How to configure Redis Cache in Ubuntu 14.04 with ownCloud
With the new transactional file locking in place, we felt it was time to get rid of APCu and replace…
Super Easy – Install Ubuntu Mate with VMware Player in Windows
As we’re used to Windows we thought it might be fun to try out Linux. In this guide we will…
Create CIFS/SMB share from Windows –> Ubuntu
One of the reasons we always stuck to Windows was because all the other desktop computers in our network had…
Easier SSH with pre-configured hosts in Linux
As we recently changed to Ubuntu Mate 15.10 on one of our laptops we had to set up a new SSH…
Upgrade to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu Server 14.04
PHP 7 is soon to be released, but for those of you that want to upgrade to 5.6 meanwhile, here…
Quick guide: Configuring Memory Caching APCu
Quick guide, without explanations Configuring Memory Caching APCu 4.0.6.1 Owncloud installation Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Uninstall current version $~: php5dismod apcu…
Count unique IP adresses with Apache
We wanted a counter that counts the visitors IP from access.log as it’s more accurate than some web counter. And…
Set up Nginx Reverse Proxy
We gave up on Pound Proxy and got some help from @fossxplorer to set up Nginx instead, to serve as a…
Set up Pound Proxy with ownCloud
Note: Take a look at this new guide were we set up a reverse proxy with Nginx. If you like to have…
Remove sidebar from Woocommerce
If you are using WordPress with a theme that includes a sidebar, and want to remove it from your shop…
Set automatic ownCloud updates
The ownCloud VM contains a built in script that handles the updates automatically, set to execute at any given time…
QNAP and Cron
QNAP’s Cron isn’t the best they’ve accomplished… It’s buggy, and you have to know what you’re doing in order to…
QNAP and Rsync
We bought a QNAP recently to be able to host backups to the companies that we built servers for in…
Fail2ban + ownCloud
Even though you think you have a strong password set to your user account, it could be brute-forced. To prevent…
Make phpMyadmin secure
Make phpMyadmin secure! Only allow access on your LAN (Local Area Network) and lock access from the outside world. In…
Rsync Backup Script
No Backup A while ago we locked ourselves out of our own system. We thought we had lost all of…
Use ownCloud as primary email service
To be able to open email links with ownCloud Mail you just have to change a little setting in the…
ownCloud Mail
We previously wrote about how to setup Roundcube in ownCloud and how to let ownCloud handle all your emails in-house. Now,…