Initial server setup 🔗
Before installing specific software it’s recomended to perform some initial server setup steps like user and firewall setup to ensure a secure environment.
Vim 🔗
The server might come with Nano for text editing, but as everyone knows Vim is the best text editor.
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install vim
Oh My Zsh 🔗
The out of the box command-line experience is boring. Oh My Zsh is a shell framework that enhances it.
sudo apt -y install zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dikiaap/dotfiles/master/.oh-my-zsh/themes/oxide.zsh-theme
open .zshrc in vim and change theme to oxide
OpenVPN + Pi-hole 🔗
Steps for setting up a VPN with built-in adblocking using OpenVPN and Pi-hole
Transmission 🔗
Torrent client on the server ♥
- Install
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon
- Configure
sudo service transmission-daemon stop
sudo vim /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json
- Change the following
"rpc-password": "<new password>",
"rpc-username": "<new username>",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
"umask": 2,
- Restart
sudo service transmission-daemon start
Filebrowser 🔗
Manage and view files on your server through a web interface
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.sh | bash
filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files
Create service file
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/filebrowser.service
Define service
[Unit]
Description=File Browser Service
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
ExecStart=filebrowser -r /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Run service
sudo systemctl start filebrowser.service
sudo systemctl enable filebrowser.service
Sterling PDF 🔗
Web based PDF editor so that I can manage PDFs from anywhere
Install docker & docker compose
Create a directory and a compose.yml file within it
cd ~
mkdir stirling-pdf
cd stirling-pdf
vim compose.yml
Paste the below into the docker compose file
version: '3.3'
services:
stirling-pdf:
image: frooodle/s-pdf:latest
ports:
- '8080:8080'
volumes:
- /location/of/trainingData:/usr/share/tessdata #Required for extra OCR languages
- /location/of/extraConfigs:/configs
# - /location/of/customFiles:/customFiles/
# - /location/of/logs:/logs/
environment:
- DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false
- INSTALL_BOOK_AND_ADVANCED_HTML_OPS=false
- LANGS=en_GB
Run docker compose up in detached mode
sudo docker compose up -d
Nginx 🔗
Use Nginx as a reverse proxy to map subdomains to ports
- Install nginx
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install nginx
- Allow through firewall
sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'
- Server block without TLS/SSL
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name <subdomain.domain.tld>;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass "http://127.0.0.1:<port>";
}
}
- After running certbot
server {
server_name <subdomain.domain.tld>;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass "http://127.0.0.1:<port>";
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/<subdomain.domain.tld>/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<subdomain.domain.tld>/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = <subdomain.domain.tld>) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name <subdomain.domain.tld>;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
Lets Encrypt 🔗
Like a vacine against hackers. Secure your website with free TLS/SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt.
- Install certbot
sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
- Obtaining SSL cert
sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com