Install nginx on FreeBSD

Posted on Sat 23 April 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, Nginx

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Nginx is a real fast and easy to configure webserver. It can work in proxy mode like squid and handles much traffic nicely.

If you want to install this great webserver on FreeBSD just use the ports collection and run the following commands:

cd /usr/ports/www/nginx

make install …


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FreeBSD powerfull, stable and nice

Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD

Linux became the standard operation system for servers in the Internet over the last years. Most web server, gateways or mail server are built on this stable and well developed OS. But there is an

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other giant in the backround working. FreeBSD has an long history and is known for …


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Install Tor bridge on FreeBSD

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, Tor

If you want to run tor on FreeBSD 8.0 you first have to update your port tree. If you not used with port please see the FreeBSD documentation.

This should fetch and install the newsest port tree:

portsnap fetch
portsnap extract

Now we need to install openssl from port …


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