#ChromeOS #CloudReady #Chromebook #Chromebox Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0720.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- What is ChromeOS Flex? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Try the cloud-first, fast, easy-to-manage, and secure Chrome OS for PCs and Macs. Chrome OS Flex is a free and sustainable way to modernize devices you already own. It’s easy to deploy across your fleet or simply try it to see what a cloud-first OS has to offer. - https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/   -------------------------------------------------------------------- Creating the Installation Media -------------------------------------------------------------------- PRO TIP: I repeatedly had issues booting the flash drive created by the Chromebook Recovery Utility. I found that the utility downloads ChromeOS Flex to the user's local temp directory (%temp% or %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp). Browse through the scoped_dir directories to find the compressed ChromeOS Flex image. I grabbed the file and used Balena Etcher to write it to a flash drive to correct the booting issue      01. Open a Chromium based browser, install the Chromebook Recovery Utility extension    02. In Brave Browser, open a new tab and navigate to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions    03. Search for Chromebook Recovery    04. Click on Chromebook Recovery Utility    05. Click the Add to Brave button ≫ Click Add Extension to confirm    06. After the extension installs, click the puzzle piece next to the hamburger menu ≫ Click Chromebook Recovery Utility to launch it    07. Inside the Chromebook Recovery Utility click the Get started button    08. Click the Select a model from a list link    09. Select Google Chrome OS Flex from the manufacturer dropdown    10. Select Chrome OS Flex from the product dropdown ≫ Click Continue    11. Select the USB flash device to write ChromeOS Flex to ≫ Click Continue ≫ Click Create now    12. Wait while Chrome OS Flex is written and verified    13. Once the flash drive is setup, remove it and plug it into a USB port on the target device   -------------------------------------------------------------------- Installing ChromeOS Flex --------------------------------------------------------------------    01. Power on the target device and boot to the ChromeOS Flex flash drive      01. After the Chrome splash screen displays, click the Get started button    02. Click Install CloudyReady 2.0 to select it ≫ Click Next    03. Click Install CloudyReady 2.0    04. Click Install to confirm erasing the hard drive    05. After about two minutes the instal ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A61GqbYDxAA

#WebServer #Portable #USBFlashApps #PHP Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0126.html 01. Download lighttpd for Windows http://lighttpd.dtech.hu/ 02. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe 03. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 04. Extract the lighttpd .zip file 05. Copy the extracted lighttpd folder to the root of a USB flash drive 06. Navigate to /lighttpd and double click lighttpd.exe to start the portable web server with the default configuration -------------------------------------------------------------------- Add PHP Support (Optional) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 01. Download the zip version of PHP for Windows https://windows.php.net/download 02. Extract the downloaded PHP .zip file 03. Copy the extracted PHP files to /lighttpd/PHP 04. Navigate to /lighttpd/conf and edit lighttpd.conf in a text editor 05. Add the following lines to lighttpd.conf cgi.assign = ( ".php" =- server_root + "/PHP/php-cgi.exe") 06. Find static-file.exclude-extensions and add ".php" to the listing 07. Find index-file.names and add "index.php" to the listing 08. Find mod_cgi and remove the # to uncomment it 09. Save the changes to lighttpd.conf 10. Navigate to /lighttpd and double click lighttpd.exe to start the portable web server with PHP support ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mki6hW3AA6s

#Organizr #Dashboard #Windows Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0796.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Organizr? -------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZR aims to be your one stop shop for your Servers Frontend. Do you have quite a bit of services running on your computer or server? Do you have a lot of bookmarks or have to memorize a bunch of ip’s and ports? Well, Organizr is here to help with that... - https://organizr.app/   -------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation --------------------------------------------------------------------    01. Download XAMPP  https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/    02. Download Organizr  https://github.com/causefx/Organizr    03. Download Microsoft Visual C++  https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe    04. Install Microsoft Visual C++    05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file ≫ Extract All...    06. Right click the downloaded Organizr .zip file ≫ Extract All...    07. Rename the extracted folder organizr    08. Cut the organizr folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory    09. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example    10. Navigate into XAMPP/PHP and edit php.ini in a text editor    11. Find the list of extensions and make sure the following are enabled by removing the ; at the start of the line          extension=pdo_sqlite          extension=curl          extension=sqlite3    12. Save the changes to php.ini    13. Navigate into XAMPP/Apache/conf and edit httpd.conf in a text editor    14. Search the file for    15. Overwrite the existing values with the following          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks          AllowOverride All          Require all granted          RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          RewriteRule ^ /organizr/api/v2/index.php [QSA,L]    16. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location    17. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe    18. Click the Start button next to Apache    19. Back in File Explorer, while holding Shift, right click in the whitespace ≫ Open PowerShell window here    20. Run the following command in the open PowerShell window to generate a random string          [Convert]::ToBase64String((1..20|%{[byte](Get-Random -Max 256)}))    21. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/organizr    22. Set the Installation Type to Personal ≫ Click Next    23. Complete the registration form by entering a username, email address and password ≫ Click Next    24. Copy the randomly generated string from PowerShell and paste it in the Hash Key field    25. Enter a Registration Password ≫ Click Next    26. Enter organizr.db as the Database Name and C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\organizr\data\ as the Database Path ≫ Click Test / Create Path ≫ Click Next    27. Review the summary ≫ Click Finish    28. Welcome to Organizr   Source:  https://docs.organizr.app/installation/prerequisites/installing-php   ### Connect with me and others ### ★ Discord: https://discord.com/invite/EzenvmSHW8 ★ Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/i12bretro ★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/i12bretro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zgbi-1MwKk

#FTPServer #AmazonFireOS #FireTV Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0356.html 01. Search for ES File Explorer 02. Install ES File Explorer 03. Launch ES File Explorer 04. On the home menu, click the View on PC button - Alternatively, expand Network on left navigation - View on PC 06. Click the big Turn On button to start the FTP server 07. The IP address and port will display, by default anonymous access is enabled 08. To set authentication click Settings below the Turn On button 09. Select Set Manage Account ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iV9X5oVTnA