This repository contains the code for my website, jort.dev.
I was inspired by the design of jschr.io.

The setup instructions assume a fresh Arch Linux installation.

Download nginx:

sudo pacman -Syu nginx-mainline

Enable the service:

sudo systemctl enable --now nginx

A webpage is now live at localhost.
It is serving the HTML from the /usr/share/nginx/html folder.
Nginx runs as the http user. Enable your user and the nginx user to edit the files within this folder:

sudo chown -R "$USER":http /usr/share/nginx/html

Clone this repository within the /usr/share/nginx/html folder:

git clone git@github.com:jort-dev/jort-dev.git /usr/share/nginx/html

Make a backup of the default Nginx configuration:

cp /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx_conf_backup

Update the Nginx configuration at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to match the one from this repository: conf/nginx.conf.

Check the updated config file for errors:

sudo nginx -t

Restart the Nginx service:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

A domain ending with .dev requires HTTPS in the browser.
Install Certbot:

sudo pacman -S certbot certbot-nginx

Install certificates for all the server_name variables in the server blocks in the Nginx config:

sudo certbot --nginx

Enable automatic certificate renewal:

SLEEPTIME=$(awk 'BEGIN{srand(); print int(rand()*(3600+1))}'); echo "0 0,12 * * * root sleep $SLEEPTIME && certbot renew -q" | sudo tee -a /etc/crontab > /dev/null

Check the updated config file for errors:

sudo nginx -t

Restart the Nginx service:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

This section describes various parts of how to set up the server the site is hosted on.

• Identify the disks with lsblk.
• With ntfs-3g installed, label the disks.
• Edit the /etc/fstab file as seen here. Use auto as type.
• Test the fstab configuration by running sudo mount -a. The disks should now be mounted at the defined paths.

Follow the instructions on the Arch Wiki and here.
As mount point, I created the directory /mount, in which I created a folder old_hdd, to which I mounted the HDD. On the HDD is a folder for plex: plex I followed the permission instructions for the plex folder and all its parent folders:

• /media
• /media/old_hdd
• /media/old_hdd/plex

The server is constantly under attack, see:

journalctl -u sshd | grep Failed

To protect against attacks, we are going to use fail2ban.
Below explaination is also found on the wiki.

To automatically ban IP addresses with suspicious behaviour:

sudo pacman -S fail2ban
sudo mkdir /etc/fail2ban
sudo vim /etc/fail2ban/jail.local

Enter the following configuration in the jail.local file:

[DEFAULT]
bantime = 1d

[sshd]
enabled = true

Start the banning service:

sudo systemctl enable --now fail2ban

The better solution against attacks is to only allow public and private key connections instead of passwords.

• project overview like https://flathub.org/

• Can SSH in server locally and remotely
• dhcpcd is running (systemctl list-unit-files)
• Can't ping google.com or install packages etc
• Can ping 8.8.8.8
• /etc/resolv.conf is empty or only contains comments
• Hostnames are correctly configures in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname (they are the same)

Because 8.8.8.8 is pingable, internet drivers are working. When pinging google.com etc, a DNS server is used to determine the IP behind google.com. Google.com cannot be accessed, so there must be something wrong with the DNS servers.

ChatGTP solution:
Add nameserver 8.8.8.8 to /etc/resolv.conf, and then run sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved.

Old Solution:
openresolv automatically copies an IP from /etc/dhcpcd.conf to /etc/resolv.conf. /etc/resolv.conf was empty, so this did not happen. For me, openresolv was somehow uninstalled, probably during a system update. To fix: manually populate openresolv. In /etc/dhcpcd.conf, the static domain_name_server=192.168.1.1 So in /etc/openresolv. I added: nameserver 192.168.1.1 This gets reset when dhcpcd is restarted, so I installed the openresolv package, which populates the file automatically.

This happens when Nginx is updated. To fix, do a force pull:

git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/master