slickstack VS guac-install

I recently came across SlickStrack, which is a utility for setting up WordPress on Ubuntu LTS. It sets it up with Nginx and some other configs, by which it attempts to enforce some best practices with regards to speed and security.

I know this page is like 5 years old and I cannot comment anymore (closed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14084265

......I never heard about that mod_PHP popularity was rising again compared with FPM pools. Is that totally fake news or that was true temporarily during 2017 only?

My understand that even cPanel hosting is still mostly using PHP-FPM with Apache and .htaccess (2021). Is there any case that using mod_PHP or disabling .htaccess can be faster than PHP-FPM or that is totally wrong.

For Nginx I know FPM is really the only option. And lots of arguments about ondemand, I see a lot of tutorials saying dynamic is better, but on this config file (PHP 7.4) and it says

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/modules/php-fpm/7.4/www-conf.txt

"ondemand is best for the majority of VPS servers (contrary to many online tutorials) .......only incredibly high traffic servers should use dynamic after tuning settings?

To be fair, in this case, SlickStack is the nginx configuration. It's maintained by nginx professionals and is readily available to view in their github repo. He didn't think it was necessary to spell it out in his forum post.

It maybe mine works because, you installed using docker and I used this guy's Guac install

I had it running in a Debian (9 or 10, it was a couple of years ago) LXC using this install script, maybe give it a try?

I'd suggest that instead of doing it on the base ProxMox install, do it in a debian 11 lxc container, using this install script that will do almost everything for you. You'll have to forward the public facing port from pmx to the lxc.

VPN, wireguard, blocking, chrome. I had a similar case and a perfect solution proved to be Apache Guacamole (https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/). Absolutely clientless RDP/SSH access to any server with any common browser (HTML5). Works as a proxy for RDP/SSH (magic) Simple install on Ubuntu via https://github.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install and an extra Nginx (see bottom of readme). Who needs OpenVPN anymore - I bet it cannot be locked down as long as you have the ubuntu public IP allowed.

I used the MysticRyuujin script to perform the upgrade and immediately had some issues based on an Ubuntu server 20.04.3 installation. No connections worked. The underlying issue is the guacd service listening on IPv6 and Tomcat working on IPv4.

However, I wanted to be able to access my guacamole instance remotely as well. I installed it using a script and have TOTP in front of it also, but I didn't like the idea of guacamole being accessible to the wider internet since it essentially has full access to my computers. I installed it a while ago in an LXC using this script.

I used the mysticryuujin's script here: https://github.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install