Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

TruffleShuffle said:
Has anyone tried to install windows 10 on theirs yet? It took me about 6 months to get 8.1 installed so i'm not surprised its only getting 3% of the way into installing W10 and stopping.

Has anyone managed to get W10 to install?
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Why would you want to use a Technical Preview of an OS on something we can assume is a home server? You'd be a lot better of using something more mature.
 
Frozennova said:
Why would you want to use a Technical Preview of an OS on something we can assume is a home server? You'd be a lot better of using something more mature.
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Uptime isn't important to me. I have three machines. A Windows 8.1 PC which is my main PC, and i'd not like to risk it. A Mac Powerbook. And my HP Proliant which was originally bought a couple years ago to use as a media server.

Its use as a media server however has been minimal as about a year later I no longer own and CDs or DVD's, instead using Spotify, Sky & Amazon Prime.

So it's only use is for Amazon Prime, web-browsing, or Spotify through the downstairs TV and sound system. All things that i'm not too fussed about messing about with.
 
hey guys

i run an esxi on an internal USB drive and have a few VMs on my drives. Im looking to create a backup of my WHOLE system. I'm debating getting another N54L to create a back up of it or could I just get an external eSata drive with enough storage to back up my whole server? Is there software that would automatically back it all up?

Currently running 2x 2TB WDReds (no RAID or backup, so I NEED to create some form of redundancy)

on another note:
if I was to get 2 additional drives and create a RAID array inside the N54L, would I need to wipe my drives first? If so I'll definitely need the external backup option.
 
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Morning all

I have setup up a wamp server to host my owncloud everything seems to work fine when connecting externally via ssl https://servername/owncloud one thing i noticed is that if i just type my external ip instead of the /owncloud at the end it actually loads up my wamp server configuration page. I guess this is correct as port 443 is forwarded to the wamp server ip. Not good really though so just wondered how you go about stopping that from appearing? if anyone uses wamp as a web server would really appreciate your help?

Cheers guys
 
Does the configuration require a username and password to reach it? If so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Still, you could implement a whitelist so only local IP's can reach that subdirectory.

<Location /owncloud>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.0.1
Allow from 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
</Location>
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Thanks for that mate, if you go to https://servername/owncloud then you are prompted as expected to login with an owncloud account. But when typing just the external IP there is no login required it takes you straight to the wamp server config page. I guess anyone on the web could see this if they typed in my IP. I would rather the config page not be visible at all to anyone but obviously the /owncloud access is fine.
 
That's pretty poor security. Maybe ask on their forums, sounds like something is amiss. I don't use the wamp software myself but have some knowledge of Apache from my uses with it on Linux boxes.
 
liamcrane said:
Thanks for that mate, if you go to https://servername/owncloud then you are prompted as expected to login with an owncloud account. But when typing just the external IP there is no login required it takes you straight to the wamp server config page. I guess anyone on the web could see this if they typed in my IP. I would rather the config page not be visible at all to anyone but obviously the /owncloud access is fine.
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Are you accessing the server from an external network?
 
WAMP isn't meant for things like this.

it's a simple install and forget for local dev/testing.

For own cloud you need a proper install of apache configured for security in mind
 
KIA said:
Are you accessing the server from an external network?
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Yea i tested from work and had the same result as if i was on my home lan, the wamp server config would appear if i didnt add the /owncloud to the end of the ip

Frozennova said:
WAMP isn't meant for things like this.

it's a simple install and forget for local dev/testing.

For own cloud you need a proper install of apache configured for security in mind
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Was not aware of this, i had considered using IIS but wamp just seemed the easier and most user friendly option. I have setup this via ssl so thought security shouldnt be so much of an issue
 
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Swarfega said:
Ok.
I am looking to install Steam OS (Linux) on the Microserver and use that as a client from my main PC to get games on my TV in the lounge. I can't seem to find many people doing this setup so not completely satisfied my plan will work ;)
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Did it ?

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It works...I installed steam on both Gaming PC and the microserver HTPC in the lounge and streamed BL2 fine at 1080p :)

Interesting....I like playing FPS games on the Keyboard and mouse in my man cave with headphones on and a monitor but for Driving games I like to use a gamepad so this streaming will come in handy for chilling on the sofa playing on my 120" projector screen...Goes off to download Grid 2 on steam....:p
 
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can anyone recommend a hardware RAID controller for the N54L?

Want to setup RAID 5 (or 10, not 100% yet) but I use ESXi and know it can be fussy and not read software arrays
 
Just ordered a N54L ... but my monitor (lovely Korean IPS thing) only has DVI-D (dual link). Are there any really cheap, low profile graphics cards with DVI-D (dual link) available?


Or do VGA male to DVI-D male adapters exist?
 
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