Install Docker:

1. Create a docker container running Alma Linux 8.5:

At the same time mount the local directory $(pwd)/cache to /var/cache/dnf on the container. This will save us a lot of time re-downloading packages if something were to go wrong with the process.

docker run …

For practice, I went ahead and setup a Ruby on Rails app - Helpy - on CentOS 7.3. This is how I did it:

1. Get a more modern Ruby:

CentOS 7 comes with 2.0.0p648 which is kinda old by now. Download a more modern RPM from here: https …

This is my first attempt at using Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt is an SSL Certificate Authority -- which is completely free and open.

To make things easier, I'm using Hugo Leisink's Let's Encrypt script - more details on this can be found here: https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/weblog/110

1. Add my …

A few days ago I decided to to give Owncloud a try to see what it's like, but the installation proved to be a little longer than I expected specially since I didn't want to compromise and use Apache or Nginx but my personal favorite Hiawatha.

These are the steps …

Hi all,

This post is a sequel of my last one - in this one I will demonstrate how I used SNI to have two different domains pointing to the same IP address using SSL.

For this demonstration, I'm going to use h5ai - "a modern file indexers for HTTP servers" which …

Here's the steps I took to install the Hiawatha web server along with Nibbleblog

1. Install the Anku CentOS & Fedora repos:

yum install http://anku.ecualinux.com/20/x86_64/anku-release-8-1.noarch.rpm -y

2. Now install the hiawatha package:

yum install hiawatha -y

3. Make Hiawatha start on boot:

chkconfig …