As I’ve been customizing my servers, I’ve come to the time where it is time to customize my shell environment, which leads to Stupid BASH tricks. Some of these are useful, some are not, but they are all Fun.

I have gone into detail regarding configuring my server already. I have written my SSL with Let’s Encrypt guide. I also wrote my Rsync with SSH guide. This article is about how I finished the steps of securing and customizing my server This article is about how I finished the steps of securing and customizing my server.

I looked over my website creation process, and decided that I needed to find a quicker, more secure way to move my website from my local computer to my webserver.

SSL allows two computers to communicate securely. Secure communication can be used with web traffic, email traffic, and FTP Traffic. I am going to speak about setting up SSL with web traffic, and email traffic in mind, because for secure file transfer I prefer to use SFTP, which provides its own secure connection.

Over the last month or so, I’ve been experimenting with building a portable Raspberry Pi2 based system. My goals for the system were to utilize parts I alreadyhave as much as possible, to be able to browse in a web browser, and to have a usable Shell. The Parts I already had are: [Raspberry Pi 2, Micro USB Power Supply, 2.8 TFT Resistive Touch Screen, WIFI USB Dongle]