504 Gateway Time-out – Nginx
You run a task and Nginx throws the following error: [crayon-5dd3040632265262855296/] This can be truly annoying and at times difficult to pinpoint. To fix this error, create a new file…
Create new user and grant it access to single database – MongoDB
Today we'll create a new user and grant it access to a single database in MongoDB. Start off by logging into mongodb with your admin/root user [crayon-5dd304063436f166055157/] You'll land at…
Create new database in MongoDB
Today we'll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials [crayon-5dd30406347f9531946019/] If you're successfully authenticated then you'll see…
SSH connection takes too long to respond/connect
Has an SSH connection taken too long to return the password prompt? There are two possible fixes to it. There are two possible ways to fix this, First, disable Reverse…
Requires: libpcre.so / CentOS 7
Ran into this rather peculiar error recently while installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 7. [crayon-5dd3040634df8474904018/] The fix turned out to be simple, CentOS 6 was set in the varnish repo…
530 Login incorrect – ProFTPD
We updated an old server recently and the ProFTP server started throwing this error "530 Login incorrect" and wouldn't let us in. We looked at the usual culprits, reset passwords,…
Mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7
This tutorial will cover how to mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7. We'll use the open-source version of the NTFS for Linux driver by Tuxera, NTFS-3G. The Prerequisites To…
Install and Configure ZFS – CentOS 7.6
We'll look at installing and configuring ZFS on CentOS 7.6 today. Why ZFS? [crayon-5dd3040635aa2253232555/] Installation Start off by installing the repo rpm for ZFS, we'll be installing with the kABI-tracking…
Install MySQL / MariaDB on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let's you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We'll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running…
Install AWS CLI – CentOS 7.6
The AWS CLI gives you a way to interact with Amazon Web Services (AWS) via command line. This comes in real handy when you need to automate tasks such as…