WordPress needs no introduction.

It's simply the most popular blogging software at the moment.

Here's how I got it installed on FreeBSD 9.1

Requirements:

• FreeBSD ports
• Some understanding of MySQL (create a database and a user, although it's also outlined here)

Brief outline of the procedure: 1. Install packages …

This post is "incomplete" because although Concrete5 is installed correctly and works, I can't get pretty links to work right with nginx. Maybe this will still be useful for somebody! ...

Hey all,

In this post we'll see how to setup nginx with PHP support and as an example set up …

Hi all,

In this post we'll see how to hook up PureFTPd to MySQL so we don't have to use the PureDB database that comes with PureFTPd.

Prerequisites:

• The previous post onPureFTPd.
• MySQL needs to be setup before proceeding

This post has been partly based on this one, this …

Hi everyone,

So I was looking to install an FTP server on FreeBSD that wouldn't be hard to administrate and would have encryption support too.

As such I stumbled upon PureFTPd.

These are the steps I took to setup PureFTPd with encryption.

Please note that these instructions are based on …

Note: Fixed the missing SSL certificate lines for Dovecot and added the screenshot (ver 2)

Note: This post took forever to write, comments/corrections/suggestions/questions/problems and any kind of feedback will be much appreciated! Enjoy!

Let's start looking at something slightly more advanced. E-mail.

FreeBSD can make for …

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 …