Adding Speed Test and a Dark Theme to Pi-Hole Ad Blocker

Just keeping these notes here for anyone else that might find them useful. First, install Pi-Hole as per regular. Then, You’ll want to get the Dark Theme going with pi-hole. Open a terminal (or SSH if you’re remoting in) (Ctrl+Alt+T) Type:cd /var/www/html/ Type:sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lkd70/PiHole-Dark/master/install.sh Type:sudo chmod +x install.sh Type:sudo ./install.sh Follow the onscreen instructions! Then, verify it is working (you might have to clear cache) and that you see the dark theme....

August 20, 2017 · 2 min · 237 words · Matt G

Compiling R1Soft Backup Agent on Ubuntu 16.x or 14.x

** UPDATE FOR UBUNTU 16.X ** it’s a little different with these versions of ubuntu, you can follow the instructions below, but when it comes time to updating your grub config, do this instead. # grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg Which, will output all the kernels, which now you just have to ‘count’ the entries, so for example if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then menuentry_id_option="--id" menuentry_id_option="" export menuentry_id_option menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-8e6c4ba1-8970-4c10-8245-ff967b14dad5' { submenu 'Advanced options for Ubuntu' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-8e6c4ba1-8970-4c10-8245-ff967b14dad5' { menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 4....

August 3, 2016 · 4 min · 757 words · Matt G

Compiling Mod_Geoip2 for use with EasyApache 4 (EA4) and cPanel via command line (CLI)

We’ve recently switched to using Easy Apache 4 (EA4) on our cPanel installs as it’s ‘basically not beta’ now. And we ran into a problem where a site needed to have GeoIP installed but it wasn’t available to us through the WHM control panel. After some extensive searching and trial and error, we were able to come up with instructions that worked for our particular install which I’ll document below incase someone else needs these....

May 10, 2016 · 5 min · 963 words · Matt G

Setup Auto Updating Apt-get Update/Upgrade with Logging

Here’s some quick steps on how to setup automatic apt-get upgrade and apt-get update on your ubuntu server, with the capability of logging and sending someone of your choosing a notification of the updates and what the output was. I pieced this together from various sources around the web into a step by step quick tutorial both for myself, and others to use to make it easier when wanting to set this up across servers....

May 31, 2015 · 2 min · 319 words · Matt G

For The Leet Folk. How to Set Up PHPBay with LigHTTPD Rewrites Instead Of Apache.

Tonight I was setting up PHPBay and noticed they don’t seem to have any instructions on their site, or in their documentation or anyone in forums (and, only 3 pages of google results for this.. so I guess nobody else runs LigHTTPD with PHPBay). So, if you happen to be like me, and prefer speed and simplicity to large bloated http servers this may help you out. I’m not a super ninja with rewrite rules, so I had my buddy Eli Sand from nerdscene give me a hand on these....

December 18, 2009 · 2 min · 218 words · Matt G