Web-Server Transition

Several years the kate-editor.org & cullmann.io pages got hosted on a Hetzner root server. To reduce costs and switch away from old hardware they got now moved to an OpenVZ based virtual server at Host Europe. On both servers CentOS 7.x is running, it did always provide a stable foundation for the services these sites use. As with any server move in the past, I always need to search how to best move the data/config from one server to the other....

April 8, 2019 · 2 min · Christoph Cullmann

Hugo Extended on CentOS 7

After first using the Hermit theme, I moved to the Hugo Coder theme to have a nicer front page and menu at the top. Unfortunately that needs Hugo in the “extended” version. The binary one can download on https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases doesn’t run on CentOS 7, unlike the normal variant you get there (too new libstdc++ needed). One has to recompile it to get that working. To make it easier for others, to do so, just:...

April 6, 2019 · 1 min · Christoph Cullmann