XGQT's blog: Posts tagged 'net'

XGQT.Org gallery

2026-07-01T21:30:00Z

Sigal script
See also

My image gallery is up on xgqt.org/gallery.

It is a million times better than Instagram and also it has no likes or comments - that’s a feature!

I build it with Sigal which outputs to static HTML pages.

Sigal script

out="/var/www/xgqt.org/htdocs/gallery"
mkdir -p "${out}"
sigal build                         \
      --config ./sigal.conf.py      \
      --title Gallery               \
      ./pictures/ "${out}"          \
      "${@}"

Running nginx under a local user

2023-05-18T23:17:24Z

Config

First let’s prepare a suitable nginx configuration file.

This one is pretty bare but it works well for our case:

worker_processes 1;
daemon off;
pid ./nginx/temp/nginx.pid;

error_log /dev/stdout info;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    client_body_temp_path ./nginx/temp/client 1 2;
    proxy_temp_path ./nginx/temp/proxy;
    fastcgi_temp_path ./nginx/temp/fastcgi;
    uwsgi_temp_path ./nginx/temp/uwsgi;
    scgi_temp_path ./nginx/temp/scgi;

    server {
        listen 127.0.0.1:8080;
        server_name localhost;

        access_log /dev/stdout;
        error_log /dev/stdout info;

        root ./;

        location / {
            autoindex on;
        }
    }
}

Server config is set up for serving all static files from the current directory.

Startup

Preparation

Based on how you want to store _temp_path files it might be necessary to create (or clean up) additional directories, for example:

1 2	rm -r ./nginx/temp mkdir -p ./nginx/temp

Run in current directory

1	nginx -c ./nginx.conf -p ./

BTW, you may want to replace ./ with "$(pwd)" and occurrences in the config with static paths.

Bonus: other simple servers

Some of no-dependency-except-itself http servers it’s good to know about:

Python http.server

1	python3 -m http.server -b 127.0.0.1 8080

Busybox

1	busybox httpd -f -p 127.0.0.1:8080 -v

You can read more about configuring busybox’s httpd on OpenWRT docs.

Old Access Point

2020-09-01T22:00:00Z

Introduction

On some old routers, namely TP-Link's TL-WR840N version 2, there may not be a option to switch to access point mode. This is what you have to do to access that mode indirectly.

Steps

Power off the router
Unplug RJ cable from the WAN port
Connect the router to a PC (using one of the LAN ports)
Power on the router
Log it to the web console entering your router's IP, you can find out the IP by executing ip --color a (on a Linux box) if the router's DHCP server is still active
In LAN settings give your router a static client IP that fits into a network you want to connect it to; example: 192.168.100.100/24 (make sure no other hosts are associated with that IP in the target network)
Restart the router
Log in to the web console entering the IP you have set
Turn off the DHCP server (DHCP -> DHCP Settings -> DHCP Server: Disable & Save)
Power off the router
Plug the cable from a network you want the router connected to to one of the LAN ports
Power on the router
Log in to the web console entering the IP you have set
Turn on the wireless network and set it up (SSID, password, etc.)
Done! :D