If you are seeing this error this month (May 2025) and have tried searching the web for a fix you will find that there will be no fix that keeps SSL Stapling enabled. LetsEncrypt no longer includes OCSP URLs. Here’s how to update your configuration.
Deploying circuits.web with Nginx/uwsgi
I’m a very minimal person when it comes to frameworks, I don’t generally like something that needs to generate an entire application file structure like you’d see with Django. When I was searching around for various frameworks to get me started with python and web development, I investigated the usual; DJango, CherryPy, Web.Py. I fell in love with circuits due it’s ease and simplicity, yet it can be quite powerful. This article will show you how to get Nginx setup with uWSGI along with a sample circuits.web application.
Configuring Nginx for Nibbleblog 4.0.3
Within is a revised Nginx configuration to utilize friendly urls in NibbleBlog 4.0.3.
Allowing secure WordPress Updates with SSH2
So you want to be able to do automatic updates and plugin/theme installations, but you don’t want to leave your files wide open, or give your unprivileged PHP process too much access around the clock. This guide shows you how to set up wp-config.php with SSH specifically for php use only.
Updated Nginx rules for New W3TC
If you have previously used the W3TC disk-enhanced rules for nginx, you may find that the newest version of W3 Total Cache no longer works with these rules. This new set of rules includes support for W3TC’s own gzipped file naming.
GeoIPLookup: Geolocation from the CLI
If you have your own server or use a Linux/BSD desktop at home there’s little reason why you can’t just quickly do a GeoIP lookup from the command line. Here’s how to install it on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and FreeBSD along with a trick or two.
FreeBSD Jail with Single IP
You have a FreeBSD VPS with only a single IP, but you wish to utilize the security/isolation of jails such as thru ezjail-admin, what do you do? Utilizing OpenBSD’s PF can allow you to run a FreeBSD Jail and serve your web and ssh traffic directly to the jail.
FreeBSD Update Annoyances [pkg-config-0.25_1]
So today I got around to running portmaster again to update to the latest packages, and came across an all too familiar package upgrade error with pkg-config-0.25_1. You may have seen the above before with other updates in the past, this is the quick write up on how to correct this and any future errors of similar nature.
Securing Nginx and PHP
Nginx Flood Protection with Limit_req
I’ll show you a very simple demonstration of Nginx’s Limit Request module and how it may be helpful to you in keeping your website up if you are hit by excessive connections or HTTP based denial-of-service attacks.