Web-Server on Janik von Rotz

I’m back

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:30:00 +0000

My site has been down for one week. So what happened? Well, I still don’t know :)

This website is hosted by Amazon Web Services. One week ago I updated and rebooted my EC2 server. Then it simply didn’t boot anymore. I was very furious, that’s a typical worst case scenario. Luckily the volume wasn’t affected at all, so I was able to get my backups and configuration files without effort.

Install s3cmd

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:48:14 +0000

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/9548802.

Introduction

S3cmd is a command line tool for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3 and other Cloud Storage Service Providers that use the S3 protocol

Nginx SSL website

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:54:04 +0000

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/9408793.

Introduction

This best practice shows you the most advanced SSL configurations for your Nginx website. For productive usage it’s recommended to use only public-signed certificates.

Nginx minimal website

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:57:42 +0000

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.

Install Nginx

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:43:19 +0000

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.

Apache vHost with SSL Certicate converted from .pfx Export file

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:03:40 +0000

This is an simple example for an Apache vHost SSL vHost configuration:

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/certificate.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/keyfile.key
</VirtualHost>