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How to setup Basic Auth password authentication for NGINX

How to setup Basic Auth password authentication for NGINX

Create a *.htpasswd file. Eg: touch /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.htpasswd Add an user to the file: echo -n 'user1' >> ./nginx/nginx.htpasswd Generate a password to the user using openssl ultility: openssl passwd -apr1 >> ./nginx/nginx.htpasswd The above command will prompt

How to wget download multiple links in the background

How to wget download multiple links in the background

First, create a text file (eg links.txt) containing all links you want to download. For example https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-geo_tags.sql.gz https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-page_props.sql.gz https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-page.sql.gz https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

How to setup a OpenVPN server

How to setup a OpenVPN server

Download install script wget <https://git.io/vpn> -O openvpn-install.shwget <https://git.io/vpn> -O openvpn-install.sh Execute the script sudo chmod +x openvpn-install.sh sudo bash openvpn-install.sh At this point you will be prompted to choose either UDP or TCP in protocol options,

How to check which ports are used by which processes in Linux

How to check which ports are used by which processes in Linux

Install net-tools sudo apt-get install net-tools Run this command netstat -tulpn | grep LISTEN A list of process IDs will be shown with the ports they listen to.

How to setup a Samba server in Linux and share SMB shares

How to setup a Samba server in Linux and share SMB shares

Note that this guide will create a public share with no authentications. First, install the necessary packages sudo apt-get update && \ apt-get upgrade -y && \ apt-get install ntfs-3g exfat-utils exfat-fuse samba samba-common -y Create a folder to share and implement permissions mkdir /mnt/shared sudo chmod 777 /mnt/