A touch of originality always comes in handy.

As we said, finding authentic and original content is becoming increasingly difficult. However, the sites on this list are different. Indeed, they have originality as a flag, even too much in some cases. In this way, they offer the Internet user something different from what is everywhere, with different themes to what we find every day. There is no doubt that the websites we are going to see now will be a turning point in our way of seeing the network. Moreover, there is no doubt that we will focus our searches towards the pages that offer us something more than what we already see every day.

On the other hand, even if they are original and curious, they do not have to be operational or usable. In fact, that is not their main function. In fact, we are talking about totally original content that will certainly make us have a good time. Without further ado, let’s take a look at some of the most curious websites that we can find on the Internet.

Homer Web’s Page

If you’re a fan of The Simpsons, you’ll remember an episode in which Homer creates his first web page with a bunch of messy, noisy, nonsensical GIFs. Despite this, this design showed the personality of this character and his hilarious way of living. Well, you can experience firsthand what Homer designed. In addition to seeing all the details that you may have missed in the series itself and that you had not noticed.

In addition, Homer Web’s Page allows you to watch episodes online, download wallpapers, games, sounds and GIFs.

Million Dollar Homepage

There are some websites that serve no purpose and where we can hardly interact. However, even so, they are curious and above all strange. This is something that happens when we visit Million Dollar Homepage. In effect, this is a website where the only thing we are going to see is advertising, without any other pretension.

The page was created by a student back in 2005 with the sole purpose of trying to earn some money. Well, Alex Tew, that’s the student’s name, has succeeded. In fact, with this website, full of blocks of ads, he has achieved thousands of visits, if only out of curiosity to see a page that is not really useful for anything. What’s more, he was selling 1 pixel of the website for the value of a dollar. Counting with a total of 1,000,000 pixels in total, which were sold completely as it is read in the web page itself. Undoubtedly, some of the most curious websites we can find.

GeoGreeting

GeoGreeting at least offers us something, although it is more curious than really useful. This website uses the Google map to search for buildings or houses that it considers to be suitable for what we have written in the search. Something that really has little utility. However, it follows the path of originality that we have marked in this list.

Once you have typed in what you want, the system will search for the building or buildings that are the same. Or at least what the algorithm considers most similar. In short, it is a world-wide search and finally offers us many possibilities.

First Person Tetris

First Person Tetris is a highly original way to play the famous Tetris game. Indeed, you’re doing it on an old TV, with a console that you can’t find anymore. Moreover, using a different operating system than usual. You can move the tiles with the keyboard, but to move them in position, what moves are the perspective of the screen, not really the tile. This change contributes to the curiosity of this website.

It is an addictive website, especially if you like this game that, even though years go by, still has millions of followers all over the world.

World Highest Website

If you hate scrolling on a website, we don’t recommend you to open this one. Among the weirdest websites we have found is World Highest Website. In effect, a website with almost 20 kilometers that you will have to scroll through. You can start scrolling until you get tired. However, the website has a “magic” elevator that you can play using the key combination Ctrl + Home. This will allow you to go all the way to the end to see what hides the world’s longest website. And one of the rare ones.

Ultimately, we have seen some of the strangest and most curious websites. So, you are guaranteed a good time of entertainment and fun. See you later!

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By way of introduction, WordPress is an open-source CMS (Content Management System) that allows us to deploy a website or a blog quickly but including a lot of advanced features.

In addition to this, we can upload new information from a control panel via a web interface so the ease of administration is complete. It is worth noting that a huge amount of websites are deployed with WordPress, this gives you an idea of how complete it is.

So, let’s get started.

Install WordPress on Debian 11

Install LAMP on Debian 11

As WordPress is a web application created with PHP and requires a database manager like MariaDB, then we can use the LAMP stack for our purpose.

To do so, first read our post about Apache and PHP

How to install Apache on Debian 11?

Also, you will need these PHP modules for WordPress to work at least in a basic way.

php7.4 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-common php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-soap php7.4-gd php7.4-xml php7.4-intl php7.4-mysql php7.4-cli php7.4-ldap php7.4-zip php7.4-curl php7.4-zip php7.4-curl

And then complete the LAMP installation with MariaDB.

How to install MariaDB on Debian 11?

Now with MariaDB installed, the next step is to create a new database and MariaDB user dedicated to WordPress. To do this, enter the MariaDB shell

sudo mysql -u root -p

And create the database with the name you want:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

After this, create a new user with permissions on the database.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on wordpress.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress_pss123';

You can replace the username and password with any values you want.

Refresh permissions

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

And exit the console

exit;

With this, we have the system ready for WordPress.

Download the WordPress package

The next step is to download the latest stable version of WordPress for Linux. This step will be done from the /tmp folder and using the wget command.

cd /tmp
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
--2021-09-11 17:41:50--  https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Resolving wordpress.org (wordpress.org)... 198.143.164.252
Connecting to wordpress.org (wordpress.org)|198.143.164.252|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 15087630 (14M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘latest.tar.gz’

latest.tar.gz                             100%[=====================================================================================>]  14.39M  10.6MB/s    in 1.4s

2021-09-11 17:41:52 (10.6 MB/s) - ‘latest.tar.gz’ saved [15087630/15087630]

When the download is finished, unzip it, move it to the Apache root directory, assign the appropriate permissions and make Apache the owner of the folder so that it will not have any problems running.

tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
sudo mv wordpress/ /var/www/html/
sudo chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/wordpress/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/

Next, create a new VirtualHost to better manage the WordPress website

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

And add the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@your_domain.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
     ServerName your-domain.com

     <Directory /var/www/html/wordpress>
          Options FollowSymlinks
          AllowOverride All
          Require all granted
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Replace the ServerName and ServerAdmin values with the appropriate values which are your domain and Admin email.

Save the changes and close the editor.

Now enable the new Apache site and the Apache rewrite module.

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/wordpress.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite

Apply changes by restarting Apache

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Install the Let’s Encrypt certificates

As your site will be on the internet, you should enable HTTPS and for that, you have to generate and install the Let’s Encrypt certificates which we can do with the help of Certbot.

So, install Certbot and the Apache plug-in.

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache

And generate the certificates, with the following command

sudo certbot --apache -d [your-domain]

Replace [your-domain] with your domain. During the process, you will have to enter an email address and accept the license terms.

Afterward, if the process is successful you will be notified and you can restart Apache and finish the process.

Install WordPress on Debian 11

Now open a web browser and go to https://yourdomain and you will see the following screen starting the installer.

Start by selecting the language of the installation.

Then the installer will notify you of the information needed for installation.

After this, enter the parameters of the created database such as database name, user, and password.

If everything went well, you will see a screen informing you that the process was successful.

Now, enter the information of the website you are creating. Also, on that screen, you will have to create the WordPress administrator user. Then, press the Install WordPress button.

If everything went well, you will see this screen

Now you just need to log in with your credentials.

And see the WordPress dashboard indicating that everything went well.

Enjoy it.

Conclusion

In this post, you have learned how to install WordPress on Debian 11 using Apache as the web server. This process has been done step by step in a way that anyone can do it. Now that you know how to do it, give it a try.

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Laravel: API-based for all types of backends

We are talking about one of the most known and used frameworks to create backends. In addition, it works with PHP language, which is very well known. Laravel offers an extensive API with excellent features. Which allows you to create web pages quickly with stable performance and easy to maintain. Some of its main features are:

• Allows you to add a secure and robust authentication system in a very simple way.
• Makes web pages much faster thanks to its internal cache.
• Allows controlling vulnerabilities and other bugs in a much easier way than with other alternatives.

Spring Web MVC: uses Java to query databases

Spring is based on the Servlet API. Therefore, it is based on Java. Moreover, it is specially designed to send requests to a database or to other servers. In addition, it allows you to configure the view resolution and take care of controlling the regional configuration of the web. Finally, it manages the theme and the file upload from the frontend. Among its main characteristics are:

• Each of the framework functions is properly separated and isolated from everything else. Thus, the controller, validator, modeler, etc. do not interfere in the operation of the others. This is possible thanks to DispatcherServlet
• It offers great configuration possibilities.
• Advanced filters that allow sending requests via GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE.
• It has a system of simulations to check that everything works correctly.

Ruby on Rails: a fast, simple and powerful framework

Ruby on Rails is another of the most popular and widely used web development frameworks. As its name suggests, it is programmed in Ruby, so it is organized in objects. Additionally, it has a very clear and light structure. You can hire Ruby on Rails developers to increase the adaptability of the program for all types of infrastructures. Some of its main features are:

• Web applications are supported by the MVC pattern.
• It requires less code than other frameworks, which allows us to create web applications in 30% to 40% less time.
• It avoids code repetition and, therefore, reduces the information inside the system and the probability of errors. This is made possible by Don’t Repeat Yourself.
• The code is fully scalable, so we can adjust it according to our needs.
• It has very secure life cycles.

ASP.NET: Microsoft’s technology for everyone.

When using .NET we are logically talking about Microsoft. This is a free, multiplatform and open source framework. Its main function is to create all kinds of web applications and services in .NET and C#. In addition, it is able to run on Windows, macOS and Linux. When running on Windows, it uses Windows Forms, WPF and UWP for creating web applications. Here are some of its main features:

• Allows programming from almost any operating system.
• Improved performance.
• Use of several versions in parallel.

In the following lines, we will continue to explore the best open source frameworks to create a website.

Cake PHP: very fast framework for creating PHP apps

This PHP framework allows users to have a very fast development. Which is essential for the creation of web applications. It also offers a fast and structured working method. And it has tools that allow to code logically all the content of the application. Let’s take a look at some of its main features:

• It allows to build a prototype very easily.
• It has an MIT license, so we can create without problems all kinds of commercial applications.
• Furthermore, it has a lot of integrated tools that allow to improve the creation of web applications. Thus, it is possible to manage translations, input validation, SQL, XSS and CSRF protection, database access and an internal cache to improve performance.

Django: The ideal framework to make things fast.

If you are short on time, this is the best framework to use. Django is based on Python. And because of its nature, it is meant to create web applications quickly with as little code as possible. The apps created with it stand out for their clean and intuitive design. Here are some features.

• It allows the creation of rich and dynamic APIs for the use of databases.
• It has a very complex authentication system based on user, groups, permissions and sessions.
• Helps development to be free of security flaws, offering protection against clickjacking, SQL injections, remote code execution and more.

In this way we have seen the best open source frameworks to create a website. We always strive to show you the best options for your benefit. Bye!

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Microweber is a free CMS (Content Manager System) and modern open source that allows you to create and manage websites in a fairly easy and comfortable way thanks to its drag and drop system.

Thanks to the fact that it is built using Laravel, we can expect quite a large stability. It also has an online store that allows you to purchase the templates you need or create and sell.

So, let’s install Microweber CMS. It is easy.

1. Upgrade the system

First, you need to update the system. To do this, you must have a user who can run commands as a superuser.

Just run:

:~$ su
:~# apt update && apt upgrade

The great advantage of doing this is that you will have the latest security patches available on your system. So the system will be more stable and robust. Quite an advantage for your server.

2. Install Apache Web server

Then you need to install and configure a LAMP server. The first component is already installed which is Linux. Now let’s go for the second one that is a web server. There are several, but I will install the Apache web server.

:~# apt install apache2

Then, enable and start the service.

:~# systemctl enable apache2
:~# systemctl start apache2

Now, check the service status.

:~# systemctl status apache2

Everything is OK.

3. Install and configure MariaDB

Now it is necessary to install MariaDB to continue with the installation of Microweber. We love MariaDB in this site, for being one of the best solutions for the open source database.

:~# apt install mariadb-server

It then enables and initiates the MariaDB service.

:~# systemctl enable mariadb
:~# systemctl start mariadb

Next, configure MariaDB to set the root password.

:~# mysql_secure_installation

After defining the administrator password, the configuration script will ask you other questions. You can answer as you like because it is not vital for this tutorial, however, I answered Y, N, Y, Y.

Now, you need to create the database that Microweber will use. In addition, it is recommended for security reasons, to create a user dedicated to the program.

:~# mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE microweberdb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON microweberdb.* TO 'microweberuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'microweberpss';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

4. Install and configure PHP

Now it’s PHP’s turn.

:~# apt install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-common php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap php7.0-mysql php7.0-gd php7.0-xml php7.0-cli php7.0-zip

Now, in order for Microweber CMS to run properly, it is necessary to make some changes to the PHP configuration. Edit /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini and make the following changes.

:~# nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 150M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = YOUR_TIMEZONE

Note: use CTRL + W to find easily the options.

Finally, restart Apache web server.

:~# systemctl restart apache2

5. Install Microweber CMS

Now it’s time to install Microweber CMS. Before I install two packages to be able to download and unzip.

:~# apt install unzip wget

After that, now download it.

:~# cd /tmp/
:~# wget https://microweber.com/download.php -O microweber-latest.zip

Now, unzip the downloaded file.

:~# mkdir /var/www/html/microweber
:~# unzip microweber-latest.zip -d /var/www/html/microweber

Now for Microweber to run correctly, you need to change the permissions to the folder.

:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/microweber/
:~# chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/microweber/

Finally, enable the rewrite module on Apache.

:~# a2enmod rewrite
:~# systemctl restart apache2

6. Complete the Microweber installation

Now you can open your web browser and access http://IP_SERVER/microweber and complete the installation.

Scroll down, and set the blog template.

Next, create the admin account.

Finally, press the Install button.

And that’s it.

Conclusion

To create a blog is something that thanks to Microweber CMS is possible in an easy and fast way. Installing Microweber in Debian is within everyone’s reach.

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