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Kvad avatar
Azure SQL MI Backups
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SQL MI backups - Yes, a lot of it is a black box but some of it is discoverable but not great from what I've found so far.

How do I find out when full backups are taken? Historic information?

How can I determine how long these backups take to happen / complete?

In regards to failover (BCP) once failed over do we need to wait for a backup to complete before failing back to the original region? Does the  ...

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Jordan avatar
Nmap showing port is filtered, but apache files are listening to port 80
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I am having trouble with apache on my Ubuntu server. It is not a local machine, I am accessing it through SSH. When I run nmap -sS 127.0.0.1 it shows this:

Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT   STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp open     ssh
80/tcp filtered HTTP

ports.conf is setup listening to port 80 like so:

Listen 80

<IfModule ssl_module>
        Listen 443
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
 ...
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Multiple Sites with Multiple Subdomains Under apache2 (debian 10)
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I am trying to run multiple WordPress websites, not all from the same domain, on my VPS. To be frank, while I know you can have multiple subdomains (of a single domain) running on apache2 (I've been doing it for the last couple of days :)), I'm not sure you can do both multiple domains and multiple subdomains.

Here's part of the /var/www/ directory structure I'm using:

/var/www/olbert.com/board/public_ ...

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Installing Node on a server with no internet, with ansible/nvm?
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I have a little puzzle.

I'm trying to get Ansible to deploy NodeJS to a server(s) that do not have access to download Node from the official website. Really, no access to the web (And enabling isn't an option). But I am able to send stuff to the servers from a trusted box.

I'd like to get the node deployment and versioning codified, hence trying to use Ansible with NVM. But NVM doesn't seem to have  ...

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How to allow an ip address to access a specific port on the server without blocking other traffic
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First off, am using Firewalld and my configuration is as follows:

  • All traffic is allowed (nothin fancy).
  • Server has MySQL and Apache2 (Linux Debian)

I need to allow MySQL remote connections to a specific ip address (my ip) without shutting out http connections. The MySQL config file only allows one ip and thus I can't directly add my ip there cuz then Apache2 won't be able to connect over http tha ...

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PATCH request returns 404, POST and GET work
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I'm working on a web application that interacts with a custom REST API. It's basically a table of data that's updated through the application. I'm trying to use the PATCH method for the updates, but Apache is returning a 404 error when I send the request.

The weird thing is that GET and POST requests to the same URL work fine. I can change the code for the REST API as a work around, but my unders ...

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Josh Woodcock avatar
Configure OpenVPN server to use Google Cloud Identity for authentication
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I am trying to figure out how to configure an OpenVPN server to use Google Cloud Identity for authentication.

I see there is an article about adding an LDAP application in the admin console for GSuite here: https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/configuring-google-secure-ldap-with-openvpn-access-server/ but I think that is no longer supported since Google seems to be trying to launch google cloud i ...

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Extending a partition in ubuntu 14
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I've been trying to follow several of the guides and articles on this forum and others on how to extend my current Linux LVM partition.

Here are the current partitions I have. I don't understand how both sda2 and sda5 are the same blocks is my first issue. And my second is that I don't know which to select to extend?

:/var$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes
255 heads, 63 sec ...
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How to officially install latest Docker into offline RHEL 8 x86_64 machine?
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I have an offline RHEL 8 x86_64 machine that I would like to install the latest version of Docker onto, ideally without needing a RHEL package mirror. This machine will never be connected to the Internet.

The official Docker docs provide a link to manual instructions: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/rhel/#install-from-a-package. But following the link it provides (https://download.docker.com/ ...

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azk avatar
Ansible - can't refer to module parameter value
ph flag
azk

This is my playbook

---
- hosts: mytestserver
  become: true
  become_method: sudo
  gather_facts: true

  vars:
  # To get vgname and lvname from ansible_mounts's device 
    mt: "{{ MT }}" #Extravariable
    disp_pth: "{{ item['device'] }}"
    disp_tmp: "{{ disp_pth | basename }}"
    DISP: "{{ disp_tmp.split('-') }}"
    VGname: "{{ DISP.0 }}"
    LVname1: "{{ DISP.1 }}"
    DISPP2: "{{ DISP.3| ...
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Nebek avatar
How to give web server user read permission to /etc/shadow file?
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I would like to have a local Linux user to be able to be authenticated (login) using the Nginx PAM module. I am using a CentOS 7 server. Specifically the below is what I am trying to do...

The README for the ngx http auth pam module says:

Note that the module runs as the web server user, so the PAM modules used must be able to authenticate the users without being root; that means that if you want to us ...

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400 Bad Request errors (infrequent) on public Amazon S3 assets
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We are hosting S3 public assets (images) under a local path using a reverse proxy from NGINX to S3.

We have noticed periodic errors in our logs (400 errors) which are very infrequent, but are causing issues for visitors. We can tell these are AWS errors since the content type returned is application/xml. Loading these same assets right after the logged error returns the correct response.

I've enable ...

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Domain name + hosting on server 2019
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I have a registered domain (eg: www.mydom.example), a public IP and Server 2019. I need to set up my server in order to host my own website. I can currently browse my website externally via my public IP and this works fine.
I need help with linking my domain name (eg: www.mydom.example) to my server so that I can access the site using my domain name (eg: www.mydom.example).

I tried a few tutorials on ho ...

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Automate the creation of database/user/password into K8 for Bitnami helm chart postgresql
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I'm deploying the https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/postgresql into k8s and wondering how can I automate the following

  • creation of a database
  • create a role with password as owner of the database above

I've seen the extraDeploy https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/master/bitnami/postgresql/values.yaml#L43 parameter but this seems like will create a k8s specific resource (not  ...

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Keith Stein avatar
Certificate for Azure Point-To-Site VPN via Custom HostName
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I have a feeling there's something about this I don't understand.

I have a working point-to-site VPN connection between my computer (using Windows' native rasphone component), and our Azure Virtual Network Gateway. The gateway uses a self-signed root certificate that I created, and my computer has a client certificate signed by the root which it uses to authenticate.

In the VPN configuration on my co ...

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