I recently upgraded my Nextcloud instance on a Fedora server and faced several challenges, from compatibility issues with PHP 8.2 to database schema errors. Here’s how I navigated through the process.
Initially, I encountered an error stating my Nextcloud version was incompatible with PHP 8.2. To address this, I decided to upgrade Nextcloud instead of downgrading PHP.
Continue…When working with linux remotely, SSH is the most important tool you have. SSH enables you to access your server remotely and securely.
But SSH is not perfect in its default installation, and there so many ways to enhance the security of SSH on your system, so you minimize the risk of someone getting unauthorized access to your box.
One of these ways is changing SSH from the standard port (Port 22) to any other non-standard port.
Here, I will change the SSH port from 22 to 22002, as an example.
Continue…Continue…The lack of native support has always been a problem, in anything, especially for things 0 should have been simple and intuitive, like having a subtitle on an article.
Trying to upload a file from a web application, to a Python Flask backend, with authorization header. The straight forward way to upload a file to a Flask endpoint, with post request would like something like this:
Continue…A python flask app runs on a Werkzeug’s server during development, by default, but it is highly recommended to use another web server when deploying to a production environment. The two major options available are Nginx and Apache.
Since I’m more familiar with the apache web server on fedora, here’s the way to setup the server and deploy a flask app.
There are two ways for doing this, one by installing the wsgi module in apache, then configuring it, while the other method installs the wsgi module via pip, so it’s installed inside your python environment.
I’ll go with the first method, here. [more on the subject can be found in the mod_wsgi — mod_wsgi 4.9.0 documentation]
Continue…Flask is a python framework to make it easier to handle client requests and create proper server responses. In it’s simplest form, Flask is a module that will enable your application to interact with a client via HTTP protocols.
Continue…This is quick log and guide on how I restored my home server after the old installation was damaged. This is based on Fedora 34, and is an updated version from my previous Migration guide from Arch to Fedora 30
Continue…This is outdated, and many information here is not applicable. Refere to the updated version here
Arch is an amazing linux distro, but being cutting-edge is the opposite of being stable. For my home server, I don’t need the latest and greatest as much as I need a stable server that does what it does with as less maintenance as possible. Hence, Archlinux is to replaced with a more stable Fedora distro.[Yep, I hate Ubuntu – though I believe it is a good distro all-around .. just don’t like it, personally].
Storage-wise, I have one harddrive for the system installation, and two identical hard drives (4TB each) making a RAID drive, for the data.
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