Category: Debian 11
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Setting Up Passwordless SSH Login between a Client and Two Servers
Setting up passwordless SSH login with key pairs makes connecting to your servers both quicker and more secure, since you’re no longer typing a password every time or relying on one to keep people out. This guide covers generating a key on your client machine and configuring passwordless logins to two separate servers. Step 1:…
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Optimizing Nextcloud: Administration Settings for Increased Performance
If you open your Nextcloud instance in a browser and go to the Administration Settings after a fresh install, you’ll probably notice a set of warnings and recommendations, since many of the server-side technologies aren’t optimised for Nextcloud out of the box. Any red warnings are worth dealing with, and this guide walks through the…
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Securely Access Your Home Server Using Cloudflare and a Domain
If you’re running a service at home, like Nextcloud, and want to reach it securely from anywhere without opening ports on your router, a Cloudflare Tunnel is one of the cleanest ways to do it. The cloudflared daemon makes an outbound connection to Cloudflare, so your server stays reachable through your own domain over HTTPS,…
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Set Up a Debian 11 System as a Server with Nextcloud (LAMP)
In this guide, we’ll set up a Debian server running Nextcloud, a popular self-hosted cloud storage platform, on a LAMP stack. It assumes you’re starting from a freshly updated Debian install with an SSH server already running, and by the end you’ll have a working Nextcloud instance you can log in to and, optionally, point…
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Host your own website using WordPress on Debian 11
In this guide, we’ll install WordPress on a Debian server with Apache, going all the way from a fresh system to a working site you can log in to. Along the way we’ll bring PHP up to 8.2, set up MariaDB with a dedicated database and user, and configure an Apache virtual host to serve…
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How to Install a LAMP Stack on Debian 11
In this guide, we’ll set up a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) on a Debian 11 server. A LAMP stack is one of the most common foundations for hosting dynamic websites and web applications, and once it’s in place you’ve got everything you need to run anything from WordPress to your own custom app.…