Situation I am using PicoCMS1. It's not installed through the global package management: all its files, content & executables (except PHP itself) are located under a single directory. This is not ideal, but common practice; and it has the advantage that it makes maintenance easier. This article ...

I did practically everything described here. However, for automating the whole process with fstab on both client & server, this provided important extra information, esp. about bind-mounting existing filesystems into a dedicated NFS folder, and also about /etc/fstab entries. That's it really; it...

Symlink to README.md of the repository of the tagblog theme (as seen in this blog), with screenshots and instructions.

How it works composer is installed locally on the server (Debian oldstable) via apt. All I had to do is navigate to the folder including the PicoCMS installation execute composer update $ composer update Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including requ...

This site provides a link to get your external IP, for your convenience: /ip.php

Deprecated in favour of msmtp. This article is originally from 2016, but I edited it a few times. It seems I have to fix my sSMTP setup every now and then... Be aware that some settings depend not only on your system but also on your email provider. My server is not a mail server, and I never le...

This article concentrates on setting up a calendar server on an already running nginx server and importing existing content into the newly created empty calendar / address book, ready for syncing across devices. Initial situation I rely a lot on my digital calendar, but currently it resides on my un...

This site is also viewable encrypted through https. I finally decided to shell out some real money for this, so for the next two years there's no snag. See here. There's a snag though: Browsers do not (by default) "trust" the certificate authority I'm using. Why not? Because this "trust" must be...