So you did install Debian on a headless Raspberry Pi? Congratulations! However, this system lacks one essential thing: mail support. Many programs in a Debian system use mail to communicate with its human administrator. Some examples: the cron service mails command execution output to the user who scheduled the command; if installed, the unattended-upgrades package […]
Category: General
NGINX: switching from Debian to nginx.org packages
More than once, while I was managing websites served by nginx on Debian, I needed features which were not available yet in the Debian packages — right now, current stable nginx version is 1.16, while Debian only provides 1.10-ish, which lacks for example some stream features which I want to use. Conveniently enough, Nginx provides […]
A summary TODO list for securing a small WordPress website
This post contains a summary TODO list for securing a WordPress site. If you set up a WordPress site, feel free to go through this list and apply as many of its items as you like. Also, if you think of some advice which isn’t here, or have remarks about what’s present here, just comment […]