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An easy way to Install OpenVPN in CentOS – snippet

Source: https://zulfah.my/files/openvpnsetup/vpn_install.txt

Got this while surfing the internet. A no brainer way to install and setup OpenVPN in CentOS. The only thing left is to open port 1194/udp 1337/udp from firewall / router

yum update -y && yum -y install nano unzip wget gcc make rpm-build autoconf.noarch zlib-devel pam-devel openssl-devel

cd /home

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm && rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum update -y && yum -y install openvpn

cd /etc/openvpn

wget https://zulfah.my/files/openvpnsetup/configuration-OpenVPN/server.conf.txt

wget https://zulfah.my/files/openvpnsetup/configuration-OpenVPN/easy-rsa-2.2.0_master.tar.gz

mv server.conf.txt server.conf

tar -zxvf easy-rsa-2.2.0_master.tar.gz

cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa-2.2.0_master/easy-rsa/2.0

rm -rf vars

rm -rf openssl-1.0.0.cnf

wget https://zulfah.my/files/openvpnsetup/configuration-OpenVPN/easyrsa/vars

wget https://zulfah.my/files/openvpnsetup/configuration-OpenVPN/easyrsa/openssl-1.0.0.cnf

chmod 755 *

source ./vars

./vars

./clean-all

./build-ca
*change hostname

./build-key-server server
*change hostname

./build-dh

cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa-2.2.0_master/easy-rsa/2.0/keys

cp dh1024.pem ca.crt server.crt server.key /etc/openvpn

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

service iptables save

nano -w /etc/sysctl.conf
*change net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

sysctl -p

echo 0 > /selinux/enforce

cd /etc/openvpn

wget https://zulfah.my/files/openvpnsetup/configuration-OpenVPN/openvpn-auth-pam.zip

unzip openvpn-auth-pam.zip

service openvpn start

chkconfig openvpn on

useradd testuser -d /dev/null

passwd testuser
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Python code: List most popular URL from Apache/NGINX ‘access.log’ file

Found a great Python code snippet for listing the most popular URL from Apache / NGINX ‘access.log’ file. Very practical!

import collections

logfile = open("access.log", "r")

clean_log=[]

for line in logfile:
    try:
        # copy the URLS to an empty list.
        # We get the part between GET and HTTP
        clean_log.append(line[line.index("GET")+4:line.index("HTTP")])
    except:
        pass

counter = collections.Counter(clean_log)

# get the Top 50 most popular URLs
for count in counter.most_common(50):
    print(str(count[1]) + "\t" + str(count[0]))

logfile.close()

The code is very handy if you want to find out the most popular URL or pages in your website, crucial information for optimization, IMHO.

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Using a new Google API or Service? It might not last long…

I read an interesting analysis on the lifespan of some of the Google service and API that has been cancelled: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/22/google-keep-services-closed

Based on the analysis at the time of the writing, Google service has a mean lifespan of 1,459 days.

An interesting point to ponder, especially if your applications/services depends on one or more Google services.

Screenshot below:
google-service

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What ever happened to 1Malaysia Email – Tricubes, Pemandu, anyone??

What ever happened to 1Malaysia email, a project that said to be valued at 5.3 milions (MAVcap funding) ?

Source:

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How to test if PageSpeed module is running (on NGINX)

You can run a simple test using curl to verify whether the PageSpeed module is running or not on NGINX.

curl -I -X GET {ip addresss | web address}

curl -I -X GET 192.168.1.47

The output would come out something like this…
xpagespeed-test

You will see “X-Page-Speed” header with its version (in my case its “1.9.32.4-7251“)

If it DOESN’T work

There’s two possibilities:

It doesn’t work! First possibility…
There’s possibilities that you NGINX isn’t configured for PageSpeed, in that case, run:

nginx -V

You should should see a list of nginx compiled modules, if PageSpeed support compiled in, ngx_pagespeed-release-{version} should be listed.

Sample output:
nginx-ensure

If this is the case, then you SHOULD compile nginx PageSpeed module.

It doesn’t work! Second possibility…
Your did not configure PageSpeed module. To configure pagespeed, just create “/etc/nginx/conf.d/pagespeed.conf” file, and fill it with PageSpeed basic config.

#file /etc/nginx/conf.d/pagespeed.conf
        pagespeed on;
        pagespeed FetchWithGzip on;

        pagespeed FileCachePath /run/shm/pagespeed_cache;
        pagespeed RewriteLevel CoreFilters;

Save the file and restart nginx http server.

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OpenTracker – simplistic, lightweight PHP bittorrent tracker

I just remembered that I used to run a simplistic and lightweight php bittorrent tracker out from my webserver, the tracker slowly attracts users until it used up all the allocated web server bandwidth.

This is a pure tracker with no statistic or control panel, just drop it in the web directory, create the required mysql db connection and schema and you’re good to go. You only need to include the tracker “announce” url in the newly created bittorrent file and start seeding!

Download OpenTracker by WhitSoft Development
Download OpenTracker (Mirror) from Mypapit Personal Blog