yak's questions

I set up a FTP server on a virtual machine in my private network. I have an external ip address - x.x.x.x and use pfSense to forward ports. My FTP server is vsftpd, my OS is newest Ubuntu 16.04.

FTP internal address is 192.168.1.34, external address of server itself is x.x.x.x.

I know I should forward both port 21 and 20, and I did it. Here'e NAT rules from pfSense:

listen=NO
listen_ipv6=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
pam_service_name=vsftpd

rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
rsa_private_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
ssl_enable=NO

allow_writeable_chroot=YES

port_enable=YES
pasv_addr_resolve=NO
connect_from_port_20=YES
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=40000
pasv_max_port=40100
pasv_address=x.x.x.x

For me everything seems fine, but when I try to connect to my server, I'm getting Error: Connection timed out. Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing.

I did sudo ufw disable.

I have a Wordpress blog, let's say that it's address is like yakblog.org and it is a Wordpress blog installed on Ubuntu 12.04 server.

Now, I would like to run a Django application as one of the sub page of my blog, so I could access it like this: yakblog.org/testproject.

Here's the EXACT situation: https://community.webfaction.com/questions/17758/wordpress-on-root-domain-django-in-subdirectory (although I don't use webfaction). Also, I tried the solution given here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26013379/run-django-project-inside-wordpress-on-suburl-of-wordpress-using-apache-and-mod, but then I have a Wordpress message: This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

However, I encountered some problems doing this, and I'm not sure if it's possible with my set up. Ok, so here's what I did to achieve what I need:

1. Created a Django project at /var/www/yak/public_html, so in /var/www/yak/public_html I have such structure:

2. Then, added a line WSGIPythonPath /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file

3. Here's my virtual host code:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
       ServerName  yakblog.org/testproject 
       ServerAlias www.yakblog.org/testproject 
   
   #RedirectPermanent / http://yakblog.org/testproject
   
   WSGIScriptAlias /testproject /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/testproject/wsgi.py
   
   DocumentRoot /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/
   
   <Directory />
           Options FollowSymLinks
           AllowOverride None
   </Directory>
   
   <Directory /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/>
           Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
           AllowOverride All
           Order allow,deny
           allow from all
   </Directory>
   
   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
   <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
           AllowOverride None
           Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
   </Directory>
   
   ErrorLog /home/yak/logs/error.log
   
   # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
   # alert, emerg.
   LogLevel warn
   
   CustomLog /home/yak/logs/access.log combined
   
   Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
   <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
   </Directory>
   
   </VirtualHost>
   

The problem is when entering http://yakblog.org/testproject I can't see my application, but only the list of files in this directory:

My web server hosts many pages. However, I need to secure only one of them with SSL. I know how to create self-signed certificate and how to install it on Apache2. My problem is quite different: since my web server hosts many pages and I need to secure only one of them, what exactly (and where and how) should I configure? Thanks!

Im using x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu.

I have 2 Dell servers: PowerEdge R710, Dell PowerConnect Switch 6224 and an array: Dell EqualLogic PS4100.

I need to install ESXi on my 2 servers. (Im just learning about VMWare, SANs, I have only basic experience with computer networks).

Connections between my network components:

I need to install ESXi on both my Dell Servers. Then, I need to install some virtual machines on my Dell Array (Storage). My question is that how can I install ESXi? Locally, on server's HDD? Or in a shared storage? I think that the best solution would be to install ESXi on local, not remote (array) hdd (on DPE R710, not in DELPS4100). Is that right?

Will it be then possible to use shared storage from both servers? I mean, will my both servers see Dell Equal Logic array? Should I do some partitions on Dell EqualLogic? And how to do this? Please don't laught at me, but saw this array and I don't even know how to connect to it to do some management - create partitions, etc (do I really need that?).