Category: Web
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Why Your Cloudflare Tunnel Randomly Drops (and How to Fix It for Good)
You set up a Cloudflare Tunnel months ago to expose a service from your homelab. It worked flawlessly, you forgot about it, and life was good. Then one day someone messages you: “Your site’s down.” You check the box and everything looks fine: the service is running, the machine is up, nothing in the logs…
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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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Installing phpMyAdmin and WordPress on Rocky Linux
This guide walks through installing phpMyAdmin and WordPress on Rocky Linux, giving you a database you can manage from the browser and a working WordPress site on top of it. Adjust the paths, IP addresses, and database names to match your own setup as you go. It assumes you’ve already got a LAMP stack (Linux,…
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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.…