In this example, a FreeBSD bootable USB memory stick will be prepared, so it can be used to boot a computer and install FreeBSD on it.
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FreeDOS is a free and open source operating system variant of the classic MSDOS from the 90’s, just like DRDOS and PCDOS from the time. FreeDOS can be used to run legacy business software and classic games for MSDOS. In this example, FreeDOS 1.3 is installed as a guest in VirtualBox 6.1 on a FreeBSD 13.2 desktop computer.
Continue reading “How to install FreeDOS on FreeBSD.”In this example, the VirtualBox kernel module 6.1.36_1 for VirtualBox 6.1.36_1 on FreeBSD 13.2 is installed from ports to a fix version mismatch.
Continue reading “How to fix version mismatch for FreeBSD VirtualBox kernel module.”An overview of two-factor authenticatation (2FA) and how it works.
Continue reading “How to protect online accounts with two-factor authentication (2FA).”This is the procedure, with examples in FreeBSD, for how to create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server, including, how to create a seperate system user account, create the document root directory, setting permissions and constructing the virtual host configuration in Apache.
Continue reading “Create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server.”Free and open source editor for editing PHP scripts, HTML documents and similar programming languages in Microsoft Windows.
Continue reading “Notepad++. Free and open source editor for Windows.”This is the procedure for how to install WordPress from the command line on a FreeBSD or similar UNIX- or Linux based web server.
Continue reading “How to install WordPress from the command line on FreeBSD.”Open dconf-editor and go to org, gnome, control-center and last-panel. Set the value to default. This worked for me. Thanks to bpurgar for the solution in FreeBSD Bugs. See more at Bug 259007.
Configure FileZilla to access and use an SFTP server in order to upload and download files. Tested with FileZilla 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 13.1 on 2022-11-04.
Continue reading “How to use FileZilla to access an SFTP server.”This page describes, how to block web browser and bot user agents from accessing and scraping a website by configuring the Apache .htaccess control file. Written 2022-08-11. Tested with Apache 2.4.54 for FreeBSD.
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