Category Archives: Web servers

A web server (or Web server) is server software, or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can satisfy World Wide Web client requests. A web server can, in general, contain one or more websites. A web server processes incoming network requests over HTTP and several other related protocols.

NGINX: limit_req – limiting requests per IP
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9 August 2019

The next task is to set a limit per one IP to our backend’s API: add requests limiter on the /user/oauth/refresh_token URI set limit to 5 requests/minute from one IP if the limit is reached – return 429 Too Many Requests response Will use NGINX ngx_http_limit_req_module. limit_req_zone To make limiting works firs need to create… Read More »

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NGINX: multi-branch deployment with Ansible, NGINX map and HTTP Headers
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26 June 2019

We have a standard LEMP setup NGINX, PHP-FPM. Application – Yii-framework, deployed from Jenkins using Ansible role with the synchronize module on backend hosts in a /data/projects/prjectname/frontend/web,  directory which is set as a root for an NGINX virtual host. The task is to have the ability to deploy the same application on the same backend… Read More »

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Bitwarden: an organization’s password manager self-hosted version installation on an AWS EC2
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1 May 2019

We consider Bitwarden as a passwords keeper for our project with the main goal to have an ability to have separated access to secrets by user roles and/or ACLs. I.e. Pass or KeePass are good for self-usage by one person but they have no main things – a normal web-interface and role-based access to data.… Read More »

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TestRail: QA Test Case Management installation on Linux
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22 March 2019

TestRail – Test Case Management Software for QA and Development Teams. Well – that’s all needed as a description) Below – its installation on Debian Linux with NGINX, Let’s Encrypt, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, and Exim. Project’s homepage – www.gurock.com/testrail Installation official documentation – here>>>. Setup will be on an AWS EC2. LEMP and SSL Login to… Read More »

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NextCloud: installing server on Debian behind NGINX with PHP-FPM and client on Arch Linux
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17 March 2019

After the news that Dropbox adds a new limitation for users by the three devices only – I’m finally ready to install my own NextCloud to store and synchronize data. The sad thing is not exactly the three devices limit (and it will be applied for a new users only – old user who already… Read More »

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Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana, Loki, and promtail
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10 March 2019

After implementing the Loki system on my job’s project – I decided to add it for myself, so see my RTFM blog server’s logs. Also – want to add the node_exporter and alertmanager, to be notified about high disk usage. In this post, I’ll describe the Prometheus, node_exporter, Grafana, Loki, and promtail set up process… Read More »

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