Enable FTP FreeBSD and Allow Only Localhost

Enable FTP on your FreeBSD server and allow only your localhost (local machine) access to the ftpd server. Read more

Google Apps No Support for IE 6

Just got an email from the Google Apps team announcing that google apps will stop supporting IE 6 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. If you’re still using IE6 I’m sure your computer is infected with so many different forms of malware you can barely stand to wait for the system to respond. Never the less in case you missed the email here it is in its entirety. Read more

Best freeBSD Firewall for a Web Server, PF Configuration and Testing

freeBSD 8 firewall for web server

freeBSD 8 firewall for web server

You’ll see many articles discussing various firewalls for BSD. freeBSD comes with three firewalls but I’ll lay out what I believe is the best freebsd firewall for a web server, pf. Read more

How to shutdown freebsd 8 and stop shutdown

Shutdown freebsd now

shutdown -r now

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FreeBSD 8 LAMP Install for WordPress

How to install FreeBSD 8 for WordPress. It’s a basic LAMP install but since we’re not using linux it should be called BAMP or maybe FAMP? Who cares.. here are the steps to install FreeBSD 8 with apache, mySQL, PHP then install wordpress.

I’ll be using ports of course for this entire install. I’m assuming that you have the proper hardware for this type installation.

Start with a minimal installation of freeBSD 8 Read more