In one of my customer project I have to use a Windows 11 system. In 2023, it should be not a problem as a Linux fan to work on a Windows system, because I could install WSL2 and the story would end on this point. Because of reasons, it is not allowed and not possible to install WSL2 on my system, so I fall back to …

This is a cook recipe to configure an Apache2 as a forward and reverse proxy on Debian-based Linux systems like Ubuntu or Debian itself. Installation It is assumed that the apache2 package is already installed on your system. For the proxy feature, we have to install the Apache2 module libapache2-mod-proxy-html on the …

I like to work with git on the command line. But in some cases I prefer UI support. For example, solving merge conflicts is such a case. Git has a command mergetool, which can open a graphical tool to solve merge conflicts. But before you can use this command, you had to configure it. In this blog post I'd like to show …

This year on the conference SoCraTes I hosted a session for the first time. It was about working on a Windows system from the perspective of a Linux user. A big thank to @ndrssmn, who motivated to host this session. @yooogan was so nice to summarize the session in the SoCraTes wiki (big thank for that). But the wiki …

If you google "serverspec install ubuntu", you find the information that a package called ruby-serverspec in the standard package repository can be used to install Serverspec on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS based system. Unfortunately, this package installs an outdated version of Serverspec. The next point is that if …

I use Vagrant together with VirtualBox on an Ubuntu based Linux system. Because my internal SSD drive isn't so large, I outsource the location of VirtualBox's VMs to an external HDD drive with a NTFS partition. Additionally, I set Vagrant's environment variables VAGRANT_DOTFILE_PATH and VAGRANT_HOME so, that the …

Salt has the option to manage servers agentlessly. Agentless means that the targets don't need a agent process. The master orchestrates the target system over SSH. Therefor it exists an own command called _salt-shh. _ The following sections explain how to install Salt SSH on a CentOs 5.5 and how to configure minimally …

I like to use Cygwin for having a bash shell on a windows machine. In combination with Console2 you have a powerful command-line tool for windows. I'd like to describe how to install Cygwin and Console2 under windows 7 (I think this instruction works on Windows XP, too) and how to embed Cygwin in Console2. I used for …

I installed Nexus on Linux according to the step-by-step instruction of Sonatype. Everything looked fine during the installation. To find out, whether the installation was successful, I tried to go to the welcome page of my nexus installation. I got an error message. I looked in the log file of Nexus and found …