You can download all the source code for this site and browse it completely offline from GitHub.
PLDB.pub is registered with Google Domains and also uses Google Domains for DNS.
This site is served using NGINX on Ubuntu 20 running on the smallest Digital Ocean droplet. SSL certificate is generated using certbot.
This site does not use cookies or include any tracking scripts. You can view a report of web traffic to this site here.
The log reports are generated using goaccess and is run once daily via the cron job below.
0 5 * * * zcat -f /var/log/nginx/access.log* | goaccess -o /var/www/html/nginxStats.html --log-format=COMBINED
ssh root@pldb.pub
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
reboot
# Log back in:
ssh root@pldb.pub
adduser pldb
usermod -aG sudo pldb
su pldb
cd
sudo apt-get install nginx
# google "digital ocean certbot" and follow instructions.
# deploy the site to /var/www/html
# add the server stats cron job below with:
crontab -e
# Update nginx conf to allow CORS using the snippet below:
vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sudo systemctl restart nginx
CORS is enabled by putting the below code in our nginx config.
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range' always;
The custom 404 page is activated using the code below:
error_page 404 /custom_404.html;
location = /custom_404.html {
root /var/www/html;
internal;
}
PLDB is deployed using rsync.
Favicon designed with this and favicon files generated with this.