Cron jobs are a vital part of every sysadmins setup. Backups, log rotation, certificate renewal and whatnot. I've mostly just relied on them working as they should until now, but with my recent Huginn + Matrix obsession I figured I should have some sort of notifications. Crontab supports sending emails for your jobs, all you have to do is add MAILTO=youremail@example.com at the top. It defaults (on most distros) to sendmail, which I discovered was kind of a pain to set up. Instead I found t

I have a few domains/vhosts set up on my server and I recently disabled one of them. When I wanted to make sure that it wasn't online anymore and tried to access it I noticed that nginx had picked one of my other vhosts (from dokku) as the default server for https:443. That's no good. It's easy to remedy though, I found the fix here [https://serverfault.com/a/846214] but I'll put it here as well for keeping. Create default zone (sudo) touch /etc/nginx/sites-available/00-default ln -s /etc/ngi

So I do a lot of self-hosting these days. I've always been keen on trying out new stuff that turns up but most of the services I just set up, keep for a couple of weeks and never use. There are two exceptions which makes up most of my self-hosting "base": Huginn [https://github.com/huginn/huginn] and Dokku [https://github.com/dokku/dokku]. They are brilliant! Dokku I'll start with dokku since it's what powers most of my apps today. Huginn for example I run through dokku. > A docker-powered P

When moving this blog from a temporary url to my main jonnev.se I got the dreadful "Too many redirects". There is a simple fix which I found here [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/2796#issuecomment-51871863]. Add proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https; to the conf. Mine now looks like this: server { listen 443 ssl; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/jonnev.se/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/jonnev.se/privkey.pem; server_name jonnev.se www.jonnev

There are 2 things you need to do to get ghost to run in production mode with docker: Add the NODE_ENV docker run -d --name ghost -v /path/to/blog:/var/lib/ghost -e NODE_ENV=production -p 2368:2368 ghost This is for ghost v0.11.x. For v1.x.x have a look at this post [https://jonnev.se/ghost-v1-0-0-on-docker/]! Note: If you're having trouble with the permissions on files in the volume, for example when trying to pull/add a theme, add this to the command above: -u $(id -u $USER):$(id -g

So I figured I wanted to have a blog and in the process redo my homepage. A friend recommended Ghost and when trying out their hosted Pro version I thought it looked great! This is for ghost v0.11.x. For v1.x.x have a look at this post [https://jonnev.se/ghost-v1-0-0-on-docker/]! I wanted a clean and simple theme and when looking through the Ghost marketplace I found Steam [https://github.com/epistrephein/Steam]. I had some experience with Handlebars already and I quickly glanced through the