Category Archives: Homelab

How To Generate Let’s Encrypt Free Wildcard Certificate Using Certbot on Ubuntu 16.04

Let’s Encrypt has recently started supporting wildcard certificates using its new ACME2 protocol. This means that you can have a single wildcard certificate like *.asknetsec.com and use it on all the other sub-domains like blog.askenetsec.com, email.asknetsec.com.

This makes is very easy to manage certificates for different sub-domains. Until now each sub-domain needed its own certificate generated for the specific sub-domain.

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Install an SSL Certificate on a Ubiquiti EdgeMAX EdgeRouter

Note: I shamelessly copied the whole post  Steve Jenkins his blog, due to it being offline and requiring a safe place for this info…

 

As with all UBNT products, the EdgeMAX EdgeRouter products are not consumer-targeted devices. Ubiquiti makes business-classhardware only… so setting up most of their devices takes at least “pro-sumer” level ability. And with their EdgeRouter products, I recommend some network admin experience via the Linux command line (and at least a quick glance at their EdgeOS CLI Primer).

But if that’s you, and you’re sick of your browser warning you about an invalid certificate when you access your EdgeRouter admin interface, here’s the easy way to install your own custom SSL certificate on an EdgeRouter.

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nginx & Pyplate CMS

Last night while reading upon webservers (apache vs Nginx) and running a webserver on a Raspberry Pi (which i have at home) i found this website regarding rapsberry pi webservers which he runs on a cluster in his basement. Next to that he also have a cluster running on a Banana Pi (Chinese made Raspberry)

The writer/owner also made his own CMS (pyplate) in order to host static pages which makes Nginx really fast and stable while hosted in a cluster. I noticed this big online discussion on what is better, Apache or Nginx, but it all has its own benefits.

This made me decide not convert the VPS webserver to nginx but to keep it running apache and play around on the pi. After installing nginx a couple of weeks ago, i already had this basic html page running with a couple of shortcuts (here, my other blog, my owncloud) but after installing pyplate, did a quick look around and configured some pages (http://home.l4urenz.nl)

New Toy

The other week we picked up an old Dell Poweredge 2850 2u server.
This to feed the urge for a homelab.
In order to start a homelab , the people love network diagram. so i made one of my home situation. which is visable here.