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Docker re-tag images

January 29, 2021 Posted in  General, Misc No comments

Often there are tags with images when they are pulled. If you want to rename that tag, all you need to do is the following steps.

  1. Pull the image
  2. Re-tag the image using docker tag imagename:current_tag imagename:new_tag
  3. docker rmi image:current_tag

When you re-tag, it will leave you with two different images with different tags and we need to get rid of the old one using step3.

An example given below

  1. Pull the image
    [abc@host ~]$ sudo docker pull busybox:old
    musl: Pulling from library/busybox
    2bafa357a9a5: Pull complete
    Digest: sha256:658f4fcf74879ed5a01bf310d018099413f3b2588c1565ac54c85253ba3fc6d4
    Status: Downloaded newer image for busybox:old
    docker.io/library/busybox:old
  2. Verify the image
    [abc@host ~]$ sudo docker images
    REPOSITORY TAG    IMAGE ID     CREATED    SIZE
    busybox ...
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Accessing Gmail with Roundcube

May 8, 2014 Posted in  General, Misc One comment

Requirement : I want to access my gmail under my own domain with the help of webmail.

Say my domain name is abc.com , I want to access it as http://abc.com/mail

Suppose I am on a cpanel server. Download and install Roundcube as follows.

root@me [/home/abc/public_html]# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/roundcubemail/roundcubemail/1.0.0/roundcubemail-1.0.0.tar.gz

root@me [/home/abc/public_html]# tar -xzvf roundcubemail-1.0.0.tar.gz

root@me [/home/abc/public_html]# mv roundcubemail-1.0.0 mail

root@me [/home/abc/public_html]# chown -R abc:abc mail

root@me [/home/abc/public_html]# cd mail

Now login to your cpanel and create a database for roundcube installation, create a database user and assign privileges. This can all be done from cpanel.

Once done, go to the installer link as ...

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Migrating emails from mailenable to exim

May 7, 2014 Posted in  Cpanel, General, Misc No comments

I wanted to transfer my entire sites from my Windows Plesk server to Linux Cpanel server. I could simply create the new accounts in the new server and copy the files. The main issue was with emails. My windows server was using mail enable, where as the the cpanel server uses exim.

I realized I will have to create all email accounts manually in the new server. A simple tool which will do everything in a click was not available. Losing email was not something I could let happen, so I decided to go ahead with creating accounts and then copying emails. I used imapcopy for it. If anybody wants to do it, you can do it as follows. I am copying the email account test@abc.com to new server. Its password is test123c on both servers.

root@abc [~]# cd /usr/local/src/

root@abc [/usr/local/src]#  wget ...

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Sharding in MongoDB

March 18, 2014 Posted in  Databases, General, Misc, MongoDB 2 comments

Sharding refers to the process of distributing data across multiple servers which helps in retrieving it easily. When the data set is huge, it is said that sharding significantly improves the query response time.

Let us see how we can implement sharding. Sharding requires a  minimum of three servers for test purpose. In production scenario, sharding may require more servers.

Sharding is implemented through the following :-

1) Config Servers – These servers contain the metadata as to where the data belongs to. Means, it holds data as to which shard each data goes. A minimum of 2 config servers in a huge databases system is recommended.

2) Query Router Servers – These servers are the ones that communicate with the application directly...

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Find the number of FTP connections along with the connected IP Addresses

March 10, 2014 Posted in  General, Misc No comments

You can use the following t o find which all IP Addresses are connected to server via FTP as well as the number of connections.

netstat -tpn | grep pure-ftpd | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -d”:” -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

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Configuring SSL in nginx

January 13, 2014 Posted in  General, Misc No comments

Suppose you have a domain greproot.com for which you want to enable SSL. Make sure you have a dedicated IP for the domain. Say, 1.2.3.4 is the dedicated IP address for greproot.com

First, decide where you want to keep your certs and keys. In my case, I am going to place it in /etc/ssl/certs/ and /etc/ssl/keys respectively.

[root@abc ~]#mkdir /etc/ssl/certs/

[root@abc ~]#mkdir /etc/ssl/keys



Now we need to generate CSR and key for the greproot.com, get the cert signed and then install SSL.




[root@abc ~]#cd /etc/ssl/keys


[root@abc ~]#openssl genrsa -out greproot.com.key 2048


[root@abc ~]# chmod 600 greproot.com.key


[root@abc ~]# cd /etc/ssl/certs/


[root@abc ~]#openssl req -new -key greproot.com.key -out greproot.com.csr




Now we have the CSR and key...
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Password Protecting a Site in nginx

			

			
				November 26, 2013 
				
				Posted in  General, Misc One comment
								
			
			
			

			
			
			
			

			
			
This post will explain how to password protect a site in nginx. It is very simple and it uses the normal htpasswd protection


Suppose I need to password protect the site greproot.com whose document root is /var/www/greproot/public_html


Simple follow the steps given below




[root@abc ~]#  cd /var/www/greproot/public_html


[root@abc ~]#  htpasswd -c .htpasswd admin        where admin is the username chosen. It will prompt for password, give a strong password.




Now, your login details are stored to the file /var/www/greproot/public_html/.htpasswd and we need to call this file from greproot.com’s conf.


Simply add the following two lines before the locations




[root@abc ~]# cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/


[root@abc ~]# vi greproot.com


auth_basic “Restricted”;

auth_basic_user_file /var/www/g...
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Extend partitions in 1&1 dedicated servers

			

			
				November 26, 2013 
				
				Posted in  General, Misc 2 comments
								
			
			
			

			
			
			
			

			
			
1&1 dedicated servers comes with pre-configured partitions which are too small in size. If you are to host websites, create databases etc, you should definitely extend those partitions, or you will soon be flooded with low disk space warnings.


This post will tell you how you can increase the partition size. In the example I consider here, the server has two disks with 1.5T space each. The server has RAID1, which means the total usable space is 1.5T. This is how my partitions are currently.




[root@abc ~]# df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/md1              4.0G  615M  3.4G  16% /

/dev/mapper/vg00-usr  4.0G  1.3G  2.5G  35% /usr

/dev/mapper/vg00-var  4.0G  334M  3.5G   9% /var

/dev/mapper/vg00-home

4.0G  136M  3...
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MongoDB backup/restore

			

			
				August 21, 2013 
				
				Posted in  Databases, General, Misc, MongoDB No comments
								
			
			
			

			
			
			
			

			
			
Want to know how the backup of mongo database can be taken. Read below…


Four tools are described here.


1) mongoexport


mongoexport can be used to take the backup of a mongo database. It takes the backup to a CSV, TSV or JSON files. The syntax is as follows.




mongoexport -d db_name -c test -o db_name.csv


where -d is the database name

-c is the collection name

-o is the file name to which the backup is to be taken




2) mongoimport


mongoimport can be used to import a backup to a database. You can import from the backup file as follows.




mongoimport -d db_restore -c test –file db_name.csv


where -d is the name of the database to which the file is to be restored

-c is the collection name

–file is the backup file




3) mongodump


For those who need a complete backup of the database, you can use mongod...
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SVN dump and restore

			

			
				July 15, 2013 
				
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Backup of SVN repo can be taken as follows. Suppose repo name is divz,


svnadmin dump reponame > reponame.repo


 


This dump can be used to restore the repo as follows.


svnadmin load reponame < reponame.repo



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