Steve Borba

My notes, I hope they help you, feel free to comment/add to them

Author: sjborbajr

Let’s Encrypt

Install scripts including one to interact with apache apt install letsencrypt python-letsencrypt-apache I am crazy and want a Must Staple certificate openssl req -new -sha256 -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes\   -keyout steveborba.com.privkey -out must-staple.steveborba.com.csr\   -reqexts SAN -config <(cat /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf <\   (printf “[SAN]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:steveborba.com,DNS:www.steveborba.com\n1.3.6.1.5.5.7.1.24=DER:30:03:02:01:05”)) letsencrypt -vv certonly –csr must-staple.steveborba.com.csr <Add apache config to allow must staple> openssl req -new -sha256 […]

Ubuntu Server

Setup virtual hardware 2 procs 1gb Remove Floppy, turn off logging Enable hot mem/cpu add Set to efi bios Install ubuntu using defaults except Don’t use LVM (that way there is no issue with space on /boot) Install security updates automatically Install openssh additional packages Do this before you install libpam-krb5 to avoid questions on […]

Manual RAID Rebuild

A while ago (2009), we acquired a company that had an Exchange 5.5 server running on a Dell PowerEdge 2200 (I found a copyright date in a manual for it as 1997).  Well a short while after the acquisition (we had not migrated off the server yet), the UPS it was on went bad a […]

First Things First – WordPress

Since this site is to keep my notes on how to setup technology, I should make the first post about WordPress (or should it be Linux?). Setup a LAMP server <Add link to it> MySQL Database Generate Random Password for wordpress user Create Database Create User and add Permission Download WordPress Create Plugin/Update User Configure WordPress (CLI) […]