Intalling redmine on an old linux centos machine was not straightforward for me, after installing ruby from source (repo had an old version and I wanted to have redmine 3.0) I got stuck in little things (missing libraries) so finally … Continue reading →

# check if ruby is installed gem -v cd /usr/src wget http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.2/ruby-2.2.1.tar.gz tar -xvf ruby-2.2.1.tar.gz cd ruby-2.2.1 yum install libffi yum install libffi-devel yum install openssl ./configure –with-openssl-dir=/usr make make install # ruby gems wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-2.4.6.tgz ruby setup.rb

On one of the servers I needed to do an upgrade for mysql so I found am easy way to do it following the instructions from the mysql website. As a summary this is what you need to do: wget … Continue reading →

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm yum install fail2ban

I mantain a self-hosted JIRA instance and wanted to also use my existing domain SSL certificate for it. 1. prepare your existing certificate (crt), private key and the CA cert (you can re-download them from your SSL vendor if needed … Continue reading →

I was woken up yesterday morning by my service that checks the health of the server. I am an early bird but not that early, the good side was that nobody noticed the server went down at that hour so … Continue reading →