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pfSense 2 is just great!

Yesterday we've migrated to pfSense 2 and I must say everything is great.

I really like the new dashboard.

Downtime was minimal, as usual ;-)


VMware ESXi 5 is out!

The new Version of VMware ESXi is out:

https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/index.php

It is also possible to upgrade from ESXi 4


FreeBSD Samba Active Directory integration

Currently I'm working on a big (Yes, really big) storage server wtih FreeBSD (because of ZFS) which I must integrate into the corporate AD of our customer.

After some weeks I will release the final configuraton, this should help a lot people out there (I think;-)).


sometimes...

...you should sleep a few hours!


Hiding Nagios behind a reverse proxy

If you want to hide your Nagios Web interface behind a reverse proxy you can use this config (for Apache 2):

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /nagios3 http://nagiosip/nagios3 ProxyPassReverse /nagios3 http://nagiosip/nagios3 ProxyPass /cgi-bin/nagios3 http://nagiosip/cgi-bin/nagios3 ProxyPassReverse /cgi-bin/nagios3 http://nagiosip/cgi-bin/nagios3

It is important …


Disable screen blanking

If you do not want your screen turning blank after some time just go to non graphical mode and run:

setterm -powersave off -blank 0

short note: Drupal 7.7 released

http://drupal.org/drupal-7.6


Server migration - done!

Finally we did it - around 4:00 AM the last virtual machine was started from the new file-server. ;-)


Server migration

Currently we're migrating one of our file servers from Linux (Debian) to FreeBSD.

This should improve the NFS performance.


Drupal 7 behind a reverse proxy

It is no problem to run Drupal 7 behind a reverse  proxy.

You just need to set the base_url (without a trailing slash):

$base_url = 'http://example.com/drupal';

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