Category: Linux

  • ASTPP

    ASTPP is a Open Source VoIP Billing Solution for Freeswitch. It supports prepaid and postpaid billing with call rating and credit control.

    https://www.astppbilling.org

    To install ASTPP on CentOS 7, run

    wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iNextrix/ASTPP/v4.0.1/install.sh -O install.sh
    chmod +x install.sh
    ./install.sh
    

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  • Caddy

    Caddy is used to serving videos on https://odysee.com, it is a block-chain based video service with no censoring.

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  • Install Caddy Web Server

    Caddy is a light weight web server written in golang. Caddy auto generate SSL for your web site using LetsEncrypt and support HTTP/2.

    To instal Caddy, download latest Caddy release from github

    https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/

    At the time of this post, 1.3 is latest stable release, to install it, run

    cd /usr/local/src
    wget https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/download/v2.4.6/caddy_2.4.6_linux_amd64.tar.gz
    tar xvf caddy_2.4.6_linux_amd64.tar.gz
    cp /usr/local/src/caddy /usr/local/bin
    chown root:root /usr/local/bin/caddy
    chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/caddy
    

    Make caddy listen to privilage ports 80 and 443

    setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/local/bin/caddy
    

    If you don’t have a system user for caddy to run as, create one

    groupadd -g 33 www-data
    useradd -g www-data --no-user-group  --home-dir /var/www --no-create-home --shell /usr/sbin/nologin --system --uid 33 www-data
    

    Create config folder for caddy

    mkdir /etc/caddy
    chown -R root:root /etc/caddy
    mkdir /etc/ssl/caddy
    chown -R root:www-data /etc/ssl/caddy
    chmod 0770 /etc/ssl/caddy
    

    Create Caddy config file

    vi /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
    

    Add

    lab.serverok.in {
        root /var/www/html
    }
    

    Replace lab.serverok.in with whatever domain you need to host.

    Create service file for caddy

    vi /etc/systemd/system/caddy.service
    

    Add following

    [Unit]
    Description=Caddy
    Documentation=https://caddyserver.com/docs/
    After=network.target network-online.target
    Requires=network-online.target
    
    [Service]
    Type=notify
    User=caddy
    Group=caddy
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/caddy run --environ --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
    ExecReload=/usr/bin/caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
    TimeoutStopSec=5s
    LimitNOFILE=1048576
    LimitNPROC=512
    PrivateTmp=true
    ProtectSystem=full
    AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    

    Set permission

    chown root:root /etc/systemd/system/caddy.service
    chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/caddy.service
    systemctl daemon-reload
    

    Start caddy with

    systemctl start caddy
    

    Enable caddy start on boot

    systemctl enable caddy
    
  • curl set user agent

    When using curl linux command line tool, to set user agent, run

    curl --user-agent "USER_AGENT_HERE" URL_HERE
    

    You can also use

    curl -A "USER_AGENT_HERE" URL_HERE
    

    By changing user agent, you can view a site as google bot, check Fetch as Google with curl

    Back to curl

  • phpMyAdmin allow connecting to multiple servers

    phpMyAdmin configuration file is config.inc.php located in phpMyAdmin install folder.

    To enable connecting to arbitary Server, add

    $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] = true;
    

    This will allow you to enter server IP or hostname to connect to.

    To add connecting to differnt predefined servers, you can add following to end of config.inc.php

    $i++;
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'database-1.abxfzy3gt.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'yoursecretpassword';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
    

    Repeat this for any number of MySQL servers you need to connect.

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  • iostat

    iostat

    iostat – Report Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output statistics for devices and partitions.

    The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/output device loading by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. The iostat command generates reports that can be used to change system configuration to better balance the input/output load between physical disks.

    The first report generated by the iostat command provides statistics concerning the time since the system was booted. Each subsequent report covers the time since the previous report. All statistics are reported each time the iostat command is run. The report consists of a CPU header row followed by a row of CPU statistics. On multiprocessor systems, CPU statistics are calculated system-wide as averages among all processors. A device header row is displayed followed by a line of statistics for each device that is configured.

    The interval parameter specifies the amount of time in seconds between each report. The first report contains statistics for the time since system startup (boot). Each subsequent report contains statistics collected during the interval since the previous report. The count parameter can be specified in conjunction with the interval parameter. If the count parameter is specified, the value of count determines the number of reports generated at interval seconds apart. If the interval parameter is specified without the count parameter, the iostat command generates reports continuously.

    iostat is part of sysstat package. To install on Debian/Ubuntu, run

    apt install sysstat
    

    To enable sysstat to collect data, edit file

    vi /etc/default/sysstat
    

    Find

    ENABLED="false"
    

    Replace with

    ENABLED="true"
    

    To see current IO Usage, run

    iostat
    

    iostat

    To show information in one line, run

    iostat -xkd 2 5
    

    linux iostat

    The number 2 is to print stats every 2 seconds. 5 is to print the stats 5 times.

    Other iostat options

    iostat -x
    iostat -x 2 5
    

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  • Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7

    To install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7, first install remi repository.

    yum install epel-release -y
    rpm -ivh https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
    

    Set PHP 7.4 as default PHP

    yum install yum-utils
    yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74
    

    Install PHP with

    yum install -y php php-bcmath php-cli php-common php-devel php-gd \
        php-imap php-intl php-json php-ldap php-lz4 php-mbstring php-mysqlnd \
        php-soap php-intl php-opcache php-xml php-pdo
    

    After installing check PHP version with php -v, you will see

    CentOS 7 iinstall PHP 7.4

    At the time of installation, it is PHP version 7.4.0RC3, it will change as new 7.4 release become available.

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  • Redirect HTTP to HTTPS when using Reverse Proxy

    When you are using Reverse Proxy like Nginx, Haproxy or Amazon ELB in front of web server and web server use HTTP to serve all traffic, you can use normal redirect code based HTTPS variable to do the redirect to HTTPS. You need to use X-Forwarded-Proto to do the redirect.

    For Apache, add following code to .htaccess to Apache Virtual Host entry.

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =http
    RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP:Host}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=permanent]
    

    For Nginx, add following to server entry for the domain name

    if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = 'http'){
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
    

    For IIS edit web.config, add following to section.

    
        
            
                
                
                    
                
                
            
        
    
    
  • Allow phpMyAdmin remote access on xampp

    xampp server only allow access to phpMyAdmin from localhost. This is because root password is set to blank by default. If you need to access phpMyAdmin over internet, it will be good to add a password protection for phpmyadmin.

    Create a password file

    /opt/lampp/bin/htpasswd -c /opt/lampp/htpasswd-phpmyadmin admin
    

    Here “admin” is the user. You will be asked to enter a new password.

    vi /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf
    

    Find

    # since XAMPP 1.4.3
    
        AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
        Require local
        ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
    
    

    Replace with

    
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Restricted Content"
        AuthUserFile /opt/lampp/htpasswd-phpmyadmin
        Require valid-user
    
    

    Restart Apache

    /opt/lampp/lampp reloadapache
    

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  • Install PHP 7.3 in CentOS 8

    CentOS 8 comes with PHP 7.2. To install PHP 7.3, you need to enable remi repo. You can download remi-release rpm file from

    http://rpms.remirepo.net

    Download and install remi-release rpm

    cd ; wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
    dnf install remi-release-8.rpm
    

    if you have older php version and don’t want to keep it, uninstall it with

    dnf remove php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-common php php-odbc php-mysqlnd php-json php-process php-cli php-fpm php-intl php-bcmath php-soap php-pdo 
    

    Install PHP 7.3

    dnf install php73
    

    Set it as default PHP version

    update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/php php /usr/bin/php73 1
    

    Install PHP modules

    dnf install -y php73-php php73-php-gd php73-php-fpm php73-php-pdo php73-php-xml php73-php-json php73-php-imap php73-php-intl php73-php-json php73-php-soap php73-php-bcmath php73-php-xmlrpc php73-php-mysqlnd php73-php-mbstring php73-php-zip
    

    Install php-fpm package

    dnf install php73-php-fpm
    

    set php-fpm to start on boot

    systemctl enable php73-php-fpm
    

    Start php-fpm

    systemctl start php73-php-fpm
    

    Restart Apache

    systemctl restart httpd
    

    PHP 7.3 php.ini located at

    /etc/opt/remi/php73/php.ini
    

    Module directory for PHP 7.3 at

    /opt/remi/php73/root/usr/lib64/php/modules/
    

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  • Auto start XAMPP on Boot

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    To auto start XAMPP on boot on Ubuntu, create file

    vi /etc/systemd/system/xampp.service
    

    Add following content

    [Unit]
    Description=XAMPP auto start by ServerOk.in
    
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/opt/lampp/lampp start
    ExecStop=/opt/lampp/lampp stop
    Type=forking
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    

    Enable xampp with

    systemctl enable xampp
    

    start xampp

    systemctl start xampp