The Engineer's Workshop

Networking

Securing Your Network: Configuring ACLs on an HP 1910 Managed Switch "The Easy Way"

Secure your network by learning how to set up access control lists (ACLs) on the HP 1910 (Comware) managed switch.

Web Development

How to Specify an Alternative Canonical URL in Craft CMS + SEOmatic

I recently did a bit of development for a friend's blog. In today's guide, we will learn how to specify an alternative canonical URL in the Craft CMS for use by SEOmatic. More generally, we will learn how to create a new field in Craft and then use that new field in a Craft template.

Virtualization

Expand Your Proxmox Storage: A Guide to Adding CIFS (SMB) Storage to Proxmox

Free up valuable local storage on your Proxmox server while simultaneously adding to your virtualization server's storage capacity. In this guide, we'll learn how to add CIFS storage (SMB/Samba shares) to Proxmox.

Programming

Connecting VS Code with a Remote Development Server

Previously, we discussed how to set up a remote development server that will allow you to work from wherever on whatever hardware (and OS) you choose. In today's guide, we will continue that work with how to set up remote SSH with Visual Studio Code.

esp32

Quick Start Guide to Adding ESP32 to the Arduino IDE Board Manager

The ESP32 is one of the best microcontrollers available to electronics hobbyists due to their integrated wifi, higher storage capacity, and . This is a quick guide on how to add ESP32 boards to the Arduino IDE board manager.

Linux

How to Set Up a WireGuard Client on Linux with .conf File

How to quickly set up WireGuard on a Linux client with wg-quick and a .conf configuration file.

Linux

How To Install a VNC Server On Raspberry Pi for Remote Desktop

A rapid-start guide to setting up a VNC server on an RPi for remote desktop, allowing you to quickly obtain a GUI into your homelab.

Networking

Raspberry Pi VLANs: How To Connect Your RPi To Multiple Networks

A guide for setting up VLANs on a Raspberry Pi. Use a single ethernet cable to connect your RPi to multiple networks at once! This can be used to allow your RPi to WOL devices across different subnets.

unRAID

How To Set Up WireGuard on unRAID

A quick-start guide for setting up WireGuard on Unraid. Benefits of WireGuard include easy deployment, lower latency, and improved battery life.

Programming

Develop from Anywhere: How to Set Up a Remote Development Server

Work from anywhere and develop remotely on any desktop. A beginner's guide for how to set up a remote development server.

Servers

Remote Start for Servers: How To Set Up Wake-on-LAN (WOL)

Start your unattended server wherever you are in the world over the internet. A complete tutorial on wake-on-LAN (WOL) with a reverse SSH tunnel using nothing more than a Raspberry Pi.

Homelab

The Homelab Lifeline: The Easiest Guide to Creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel

The easiest, quick step-by-step guide for accessing your homelab network remotely via a reverse SSH tunnel on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian/Ubuntu device).

Servers

Connecting Your Raspberry Pi Web Server To The Internet: A Beginner's Guide to Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS

A tutorial on connecting a Raspberry Pi/Ubuntu web server to the internet. Includes how to set up ddclient for dynamic DNS and how to configure port forwarding on a router/pfSense.

Virtualization

Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

An introductory guide to VLAN configuration on a Proxmox virtualization server so that you can group related VMs onto their own subnet.

Ghost

Beginner's Guide to Updating Your Ghost Blog

A step-by-step guide to upgrading the Ghost publishing platform to the latest version. Also includes references on how to back up your Ghost content.

Ghost

Backup Your Ghost Content to unRAID

Mount an unRAID share locally on an Ubuntu server. This article covers how to mount a directory on your Ghost server to backup Ghost content on your unRAID server. I'll then show you how to backup Ghost's content directly to this unRAID share.

Linux

How to Install HandBrake on Ubuntu

How to install HandBrake on Ubuntu, resolve the dreaded "unable to locate package handbrake-gtk" and missing "libx264-152" errors, and update Ubuntu repository distributions.

Linux

How to Upgrade Ubuntu to 19.10 Eoan Ermine Beta

The development release of Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) beta is out today. Follow these steps to upgrade to the newest Ubuntu release: Update Your Current Distribution1. Update your package

Linux

Adding a Portable USB Monitor to Ubuntu: How to Set Up the DisplayLink Driver

Dual monitors are essential for productivity. Now you can add a second monitor on-the-go with an portable USB monitor. In this tutorial we cover how to add a USB monitor in Ubuntu using the DisplayLink driver as well as how to create an alias in Ubuntu Linux.

Virtualization

How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine

How to add an additional hard disk to an ESXi virtual machine (VM) via the web client and command line (esxcli/vmkfstools) without vSphere.

Networking

How To Set Up VLANs On An L3 Managed Switch (HP 1910) With pfSense

Tutorial on creating VLANs from scratch and routing them on an L3 Switch with pfSense integration.

Microcontrollers

Weather Station Project: ESP32 with LoRa Telemetry

Monsoon season is rapidly approaching. Last year my neighbors were heavily affected by the weather when we received over a foot of rainfall in just a few hours. Flooding was

Projects

Project Management and Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space

A simple project management guide for developing your own engineering projects with Arduino, RPi, ESP32, or anything else you can think of.

Servers

Preparing Your Server for Vacation - The Unattended Server Access Checklist

Preparing Your Server for Vacation – The Unattended Server Access Checklist. 1) Check VPN Connection: 2) Check Reverse SSH Tunnel Backup: 3) VNC Server Available on Backup Devices: 4) Test Automatic Server Shutdown When Running on UPS: 5) Test Server WOL from Backup Device

Django

Django Error Silver Bullets

Common Django errors and how to fix them: no such table: main.auth_user__old; ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘sqlparse’