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0. The Root Problem: The Subfolder Hosting Gap The journey didn’t start with a proxy; it started with a limitation. Mintlify is a fantastic documentation platform, but it has a specific constraint: you can only map custom domains to subdomains (e.g., docs.yourdomain.com). Most modern marketing and SEO strategies, however, demand that documentation live in a […]
If you’re running Ollama on your Ubuntu server, you likely know it defaults to 127.0.0.1:11434. While this works for local testing, exposing it securely to external platforms requires a robust reverse proxy. In this guide, we’ll use Apache to bridge that gap and secure your firewall. Step 1: Enable Necessary Apache Modules To act as a […]
If you’re self-hosting a Blynk Server, you might encounter issues where your hardware (like ESP8266 or ESP32) or mobile app cannot connect to the server. This is often caused by the server’s firewall (UFW) blocking the necessary ports. In this guide, we’ll walk through identifying the Blynk ports and how to expose them safely. Step […]
Managing multiple domains on an Ubuntu server can quickly become a repetitive and error-prone task. From creating system users to configuring Apache VirtualHosts and securing MySQL databases, the manual overhead is significant. This suite of professional Bash utilities simplifies and automates the entire process, ensuring every new site is fast, isolated, and secure by default. […]
Have you ever looked at your server’s top and seen mysqld and php-fpm battling for 40% of your CPU, even though your traffic shouldn’t be that high? That was exactly the situation I found myself in this week on my Ubuntu server. Here’s the story of how a small missing CSS file turned into a […]
Hosting dozens of websites on a single server is a common challenge for developers and small agencies. You have the hardware—an 8-core CPU and 32GB of RAM—but for some reason, the sites still feel “laggy,” and top shows a high load average even with simple PHP sites. I recently optimized a server for this exact […]
Deploying Django on a live server can feel tricky the first time, but once you understand the flow, it’s actually simple. In this guide, we’ll deploy a Django application on Ubuntu Linux using Apache2 and mod_wsgi — a stable, production-ready setup used worldwide. This guide works for: Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04 Python 3.x […]
Step : 1 – Installing the PHP 7.4 and PHP Extenisons Run the following command to update apt-get itself, which ensures that you have access to the latest versions of anything you want to install: sudo apt-get update Next, install software-properties-common, which adds management for additional software sources: sudo apt -y install software-properties-common The -y flag will automatically […]
Step : 1 – Installing the PHP 7.4 and PHP Extensions To install and enable the EPEL Repository on CentOS 8, Execute the following dnf command dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm To confirm the presence of the EPEL Repository, run the following rpm command rpm -qa | grep epel Next, run the command below to add the REMI […]
If you do not know what your server’s public IP address is, there are a number of ways you can find it. Usually, this is the address you use to connect to your server through SSH. From the command line, you can find this a few ways. First, you can use the iproute2 tools to […]