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Day: July 27, 2024

  • Guacamole – Day 1

    Guacamole – Day 1

    To setup Apache Guacamole I’ll be following the install guide here:

    https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/installing-guacamole.html

    Looks like the first step is to have a working Java Servlet, which I don’t have. I’m going with Apache Tomcat as it’s been around forever so there is lots of documentation. Also, Ubuntu has package files which always makes things easier.

    ‘apt search tomcat’ shows me that Tomcat 9 is the version that Ubuntu has included with LTS 22. So I’ll just do ‘apt install tomcat9’, and see how far that gets me.

    The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre-headless java-common libeclipse-jdt-core-java libgraphite2-3 libharfbuzz0b libpcsclite1 libtcnative-1 libtomcat9-java openjdk-11-jre-headless tomcat9 tomcat9-common
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    That gets me the above packages, and once that install is finished, I’m going to install the suggested packages. They all look useful…

    Suggested packages:
  default-jre pcscd libnss-mdns fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei | fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-indic tomcat9-admin tomcat9-docs tomcat9-examples tomcat9-user

    After that finished I confirm that Tomcat is running with ‘systemctl status tomcat9’, and then point my browser to the webserver’s internal IP on port 8080 and I see this lovely message.

    That was much easier than I expected. I think that’s it for day one as it’s 6 am and I’m almost done with my shift.

  • Site is back up!

    Looking at the logs it’s been down since October 22, 2023. I’m not sure if that is when my fiber IP changed, or when the line from the fiber jack to the router in the basement broke. The line quite working right before I had to work from home, so I just put the wifi router directly into the fiber jack so I could work, and I just yesterday got around to fixing that. I ended up just replacing RJ45 connectors on both ends of the cable.

    After the box was back on the internet, I updated my current public IP with namecheap and started running updates on Ubuntu. I didn’t realize when you run ‘apt upgrade’ that it will move you to the latest LTS version, so I spent about half an hour figuring out why Apache would not start. Turns out one of the several warning messages I clicked through was telling me it was going to install PHP 8.1, and remove 7.6. Since I made sure to tell it not to update any of my config files, this caused Apache to crash when trying to start. I just had to disable the old module and enable the new one.

    So the site is back up but just a quick run through certbot and it’s secure again too!

    All this is in preparation for me to setup Apache Guacamole on the site. This should allow be to get around all the filtering at work so I can remote into my home computer and work on things I can’t on my work PC. My next post will probably be about setting that up. It i fairly complicated. No prebuilt apt packages.