Janik von Rotz

Nginx minimal website

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9408741.

Introduction

This is a minimal Nginx website configuration. It’s a good way to start your next project.

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SharePoint Export and Import Term Sets from Term Store

The SharePoint term store service is one of the most important parts of a SharePoint installation. It’s the best place to store an manage global metadata for your companies documents.

It’s not that hard to design a term set in Excel and import it afterwards with the built-in term store import wizard.

However there’s no tool or wizard that allows you to get a term set out of the term store.

It’s only possible with my PowerShell function (which is as always part of my PowerShell PowerUp project)

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Install Nginx

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9345486.

Introduction

Nginx (pronounced “engine-ex”) can be used as an open source reverse proxy server, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and not to forget a fast and powerful web server.

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O3M 34 - Run Baby Run (Electro)

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Install npm package forever

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Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9347463.

Introduction

A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever).

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Install Node

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Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9346588.

Introduction

Node.js is a cross-platform runtime environment for server-side and networking applications.

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Convert SSL certificates

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9413205.

Requirements

Instructions

When buying a certificate from you CA (Certification Authority) e.g. a wildcard certificate for *.example.org, you have to convert this file to different formats in order to use them with your webserver installation.

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Get a free verified SSL certificate from StartSSL

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Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9430791.

SSL certificates aren’t cheap. You can create them on your own for private use. However for internet use you have to get a verified certificate.

Luckily there’s https://www.startssl.com/

They offer you a class 1 SSL certificate for free. Their site might not look trustworthy, but I’m quite shure they do a great job.

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Install Ubuntu packages

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Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9758741.

Introduction

This is a list of essential programs to run an Ubuntu server.

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Install Ubuntu development libraries

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Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9758712.

Introduction

This is a list of essential tools for developing with Ubuntu.

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