Month: May 2020

hardware

How to Build a Raspberry Pi Weather Station

Building a Raspberry Pi Weather Station is a popular and fun project. It entails some wiring/soldering, python programming, scraping the Adafruit website for software and drivers, and finally some engineering to get a Raspberry to live outside in your backyard with access to your network. Depending on how fancy you want to get, this weather […]

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services

How to Configure Nagios on a Raspberry

There are host templates and service templates. Host templates control settings for host objects and service templates control settings for service objects. A host object in Nagios is something that you want to monitor. A service object is a service that is running on a host. There are .cfg files that contain these definitions. The […]

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services

How to Switch to https for Free!

If you’re running a website, you probably want it on Google. Google prefers websites that use HTTP and will rank you higher if you are running a secure website. Turning on HTTP for apache on a Raspberry is no different than setting it up on a larger computer. It used to be that you had […]

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services

How to Install WordPress on a Raspberry Pi

This post will cover the process of getting WordPress on a freshly booted Raspberry Pi. Follow my Newbie Guide to get ready for this installation. I like to install all the prerequisites at once and then install WordPress separately. Yes, you CAN “apt install wordpress”, but I like to do it the way that WordPress […]

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services

How to Get Rid of Maintenance Mode in WordPress

Occasionally, you might get this message when you go to your favorite WordPress blog–especially if you have a load-balanced, distributed web server, like this one. I have a couple of Raspberry PIs, running apache, that are front-ended with HAProxy. When I start a plugin update on my site, that activity is run by one of […]

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