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A New Open Source Platform for people to share their links of Favorite content over the internet

Imdad Rind — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:08:57 +0000

I have Created an open source Platform where a user can share the links of their favorite content over the internet like (Insat reels, TikTok, Youtube vids, Facebook posts, Twitter/X Tweet/Post, Sub-Reddits, anything)

on it you can create an account and post your favorite content's link

(this one the upload page where user share the link 👇)

You can follow and unfollow people and can see the public post of your following

you can have your post to be public or private

there is also a an explore page where users get see all the public post around the world .

There is much more to know but i would like you see it yourself it would be nice.

But the only problem is that it is still incomplete i have worked on all the core features but i am struggling with UI or Frontend as you might see i am more fond of Backend .

That's why i need some help with the Frontend if anyone is welling to work on it i will be grateful.

i am using ASP.NET Core MVC for this project and Tailwind CSS on frontend

this is a community own project and it will be always and when it is almost complete we can host it and let people enjoy .

Thank You ❤️

Install Oh-My-Posh On Windows Command Prompt (cmd) Via Clink

Imdad Rind — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:39:31 +0000

If you are a fan of CMD and want the beauty of oh-my-posh but you do not want to switch to Windows PowerShell so you on the right place

The problem is that CMD directly does not support oh-my-posh on it so that's why we need to do via Clink

Let's Start 😺:

Step : 1

First of all we need to install oh-my-posh

winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget

this commdand will install these things

oh-my-posh.exe - Windows executable
themes - The latest Oh My Posh

after installing oh-my-posh you should restart your Terminal for the path to be set

if the path does not automatically set you can do manual by copying the bin path of oh-my-posh and adding it as new path in Edit the system environment variables

Step 2 :

Now Download & Install CLink from
Clink

after installing clink open new Terminal you see some Changes

As you know that cmd directly does not support oh-my-posh on it
so Clink 👍

Step 3 :

Now we need find the path to Clink scripts directory which we can do by running this command

clink info

after running this you will get path to a lot of Clink associated but you need to select the path script

in the case of this image C:\User\WS\AppDate\Local\Clink is the path to scripts directory yours will be something similar

Step 4 :

Opening or going to Clink scripts directory

there you need to create a file named oh-my-posh.lua

Step 5 :

Open that file and and write or copy & past the following

load(io.popen('oh-my-posh.exe --config="C:/Users/me/jandedobbeleer.omp.json" --init --shell cmd'):read("*a"))()

here you should replace this C:/Users/me/jandedobbeleer.omp.json config with your own configuration.

Step 6 :

Restart you terminal or cmd then your good to go

you might not have the best experiences with but it is something or you might do it better than me

Thank You ❤️

Thank you for giving me the honor to let you know how to do the thing i am very grateful to you

Reference 😊

And am thankful to all the people who worked on the product, documents and the problems & issues with it

Oh-My-posh Windows install
Clink downalond link
Change your prompt from PowerShell to CMD
config oh-my-posh with Clink
using git-posh or/and oh-my-posh with Command Prompt(cmd, not Powershell) inside windows terminal
oh-my-posh Support for CMD

Configure a Private DNS on Debian

Imdad Rind — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:57:29 +0000

note : i am doing this on Debian 10 (buster) and running it on virtual machine and i am using the root or am the root user . so use sudo befour every command

Get important tools

Step 1:

First of all we need some important tools for configure a private DNS so Install Bind9 and tools

 sudo apt install bind9 bind9utils bind9-doc -y

Configure DNS

Step 2:

After installing Bind we can proceed to our main objective to configure a DNS

First open the name.conf.options

 nano /etc/bind/named.conf.options

After opening the file Edit the file to add a acl ( access control list) and in it write your server ip address and clint ip address

acl “trusted” {
    192.168.18.1; 
    192.168.18.11;
 };

In this acl section first ip 192.168.18.1 is our server ip and 192.168.18.11 is our client

After that in the option section write the following

recursion yes;
Allow-recursion {trusted;};
listen-on {192.168.18.1};
allow-transfer {none;};
forwarders {
    8.8.8.8;
    8.8.4.4;
};

Step 3 :

Now open named.conf.local for defining zones.

 nano /etc/bind/named.conf.local

In this file we define our forward and backward zones

In forward zone we write out domain name in the name section and we provide and path to the forward zone file

And in backward zone we do similar things but in the name section we write our revers ip , in my case it is “18.168.192”

Step 4 :

Now we need to create a folder for our zones

 mkdir /etc/bind/zones

Step 4.1
Copy db.local for making forward zone and name after your domain name

sudo cp /etc/bind/db.local /etc/bind/zones/db.hello.com

Step 4.2

Copy db.127 for creating reverse zone and name it

 sudo cp /etc/bind/db.127 /etc/bind/zones/db.192.168.18

Step 5
Open forward zone file

 nano /etc/bind/zones/db.hello.com

After opening the forward zone do the following

First, you will want to edit the SOA record. Replace the first “localhost” with ns’s FQDN, then replace “root.localhost” with “admin.hello.com”. Every time you edit a zone file, you need to increment the serial value before you restart the named process. We will increment it to “3”.

Next, delete the three records at the end of the file (after the SOA record).

Now, add the A records for your server & hosts that belong in this zone. This includes any server whose name we want to end with “.hello.com.” (substitute the names and private IP addresses).

Befour that add NS Record for you server

Save and close the db.hello.com file.
Final result

Step 6:

Now open reverse zone file

Reverse zone files are where we define DNS PTR records for reverse DNS lookups. Each reverse zone specified in the named.conf.local file, create a reverse zone file. We will base our reverse zone file(s) on the sample db.127 zone file. Copy it to the proper location with the following commands (substituting the destination filename so it matches your reverse zone definition):

nano /etc/bind/zones/db.192.168.18

In the same manner as the forward zone file, you will want to edit the SOA record and increment the serial value.

Now delete the two records at the end of the file (after the SOA record). If you’re not sure which lines to delete, they are marked with a “delete this line” comment below.

At the end of the file, add your name server records with the following lines (replace the names with your own).

Note that the first column consists of the last two octets of your servers’ private IP addresses in reversed order.

Step 7:

Remember to check your conf and zone for errors file by following command

Named-checkconf
Named-checkzone

Google it to know how to use

Or let me be generous

Run the following command to check the syntax of the named.conf* files:

named-checkconf

eg,:

named-checkconf /etc/bind/named.conf.options

To check the “hello.com” forward zone configuration, run the following command:

named-checkzone hello.com /etc/bind/zones/db.hello com

And to check the “18.168.192.in-addr.arpa” reverse zone configuration, run the following command:

sudo named-checkzone 18.168.192.in-addr.arpa /etc/bind/zones/db.192.168.18

Step 8:

Restart the Bind by this command

 systemctl restart bind9

Step 9:

Open network interface file for adding dns name and ip

 nano /etc/network/interfaces

Add the following and remember to change the address to you ones

Step 10:

Install resolvconf

sudo apt install resolvconf

Step 10.1

Restart your networking services, applying the new changes with the following commands

ifdown --force eth1 && sudo ip addr flush dev eth1 && sudo ifup --force eth1

Step 10.2

 cat /etc/resolv.conf

To check the settings for dns

Step 11

Final step to check if domain name or dns is working
Open your bowser and your url
In my case which is

http://hello.com

Thank You ❤️

thank you for reading this far if there is any problem or any suggestion or anything just contact me

Reference

How To Configure BIND as a Private Network DNS Server on Debian 9

digitalocean.com

Install SNMP & MRTG on Debian 10 (buster)

Imdad Rind — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:06:54 +0000

Note : this document is only for debian 10 or maybe 9. The process for debian 12 is somewhat different maybe also for 11 too and also i am doing it on VirtualBox

Step 0:

Install the following which are needed to setup snamp

apt install apache2

In my case these were not needed

apt install php7.3 php7.3-gd php7.3-cli

Step 1:

Open your terminal and enter the following

apt install snmp snmpd -y

Step 2:

When snmp and snmpd are installed successfully then open flowing file

nano /etc/snmp/snmp.comf

Step 3:

After opening the file scroll down and do these

Uncomment

rocommunity public localhost

Edit and write

Write the location of the system like “ rack , city, country”
sysLocation "Turbat, Balochistan"

Write the information of admin
sysContact "emdadR, 1103852@stud.uot.edu.pk"

Step 4:

Restart snmp

Service snmp restart

Step 5:

Now type to retrieve information from an snmp agent for…

snmpwalk -v1 -c public localhost

Step 6 :

On this step we need to install “mrtg”

apt install mrtg

Step 7:

At the step we need to make a folder in “ /var/www/html ” for mrtg files and webpages

mkdir /var/www/html/mrtg

Step 8:

Create config file for mrtg

cfgmaker public@localhost > /etc/mrtg.cfg

Step 9 :

Open “ mrtg.cfg “ file for making some changes

nano /etc/mrtg.cfg

Step 10 :

Scroll down and find

“ # for Debian
WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg
”

And edit it to

WorkDir: /var/www/html/mrtg

Step 11:

Create a index file for mrtg Graph

Indexmaker /etc/mrtg.cfg > /var/www/html/mrtg/index.html

Step 12:

Open the your browser to see the data traffic with mrtg

When you open your browse and enter the following in URL section

Your machine IP Address where apache is installed
Like in my case it installed on my client machine

`192.168.18.11/mrtg

`
Or

Your dns name
Like in my case it is

`http://hello.com/mrtg`

note : i have configured a private DNS on another machine that i have
that's whay i have this .

hello.com

ThankYou ❤️

thank for getting this far

Reference

Billy R Install SNMP & MRTG Debian 10 - YouTube