In this post we'll start going into the famous Apache web server.

Some prerequisites:

Make sure that you have set up your VirtualBox to use 'Bridged Adapter' for your network adapter. In case you don't know how to do this, look in my tutorial for a step by step guide …

In my last tutorial I went over a basic installation of Apache on FreeBSD – of course :).

In this one, I'm going to go over enabling SSL for Apache.

Prerequisites are of course that you have already installed Apache from ports (/usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl).

So let's start!

1. Boot the …

I thought it would be a good idea before I went on to Benchmarking to finish the prerequisites for it. I don't think it would make sense to demonstrate benchmarking without 1st having a blog spot on how to actually install ports.

I have already discussed ports and packages in …

When we need to install some new software in FreeBSD , most always we use the previously discussed pkg_add -r package command.

The pkg_add -r part, means that FreeBSD will look at the FreeBSD servers for the package you are looking for and install it along with all the dependencies (required …

In a previous article, I said that I would take the time to do a benchmark comparison of VirtualBox 3.2 and VirtualBox 4.0.

What I had in mind was, to compile Apache from Ports on each, time it, and compare the results. Sound simple, right?

So, I loaded …

In this post we'll see how we can take our very basic FreeBSD installation and install X-Windows in it. My favorite desktop environment so far is IceWM although it may seem rather very primitive for some. In most cases it provides enough functionality to make life sufficiently easy without hogging …

1. Open up VirtualBox

2. Click once to select the Virtual Machine you want to run , then click 'Start' to get the party started

3. If all goes well you should see a Screen like this .. just click enter or just let it continue on it's own

4. After some …

This is the sequel to my previous post on installing VirtualBox on Windows XP Home.

This will walk you through setting up a Virtual Machine for FreeBSD 8.1 on Windows XP Home with no problems.

Now that the installation is complete it's time to set up a new VirtualBox …

Hi everyone,

Today I took the time and wrote my own walkthrough of the VirtualBox installation on a Windows system.

This guide deals with the installation of VirtualBox and the setup of a Virtual Machine suitable for FreeBSD 8.1 - hope this is helpful to somebody! enjoy!

This guide has …

I decided to start a blog to share with the world (or anyone who cares) my experiences with FreeBSD. I do realize there are many blogs/pages/resources out there on FreeBSD but I came to realize than when you are trying to do something different or start mixing many …