What we’re building Four pieces talk to each other in a straight line: Your token travels from Open WebUI to the MCP server on every request, so the server itself stores no secrets. If you ever need to connect an app that doesn’t speak MCP, there’s an optional helper called mcpo covered near the end. … Read more
I recently used an AI model through Open WebUI, connected to Open Terminal, to configure an HP printer sitting on my network. It even set a static IP. 🤓 That’s a wonderfully unglamorous example of what makes this combination so interesting. Not generating another paragraph of text. Not giving me instructions to copy and paste. … Read more
I recently discovered docker compose ls, and my immediate reaction was: “Wait… this has been here the whole time?” 😅👏 It lists your Docker Compose projects. No hopping between directories. No trying to remember which folder contains that one Compose file. Just a quick overview. That got me thinking: most of us get comfortable with … Read more
Date resolved: 2026-08-17Components: Open WebUI, LiteLLM Proxy, Azure-backed FLUX.2-pro, Docker networking Summary Image generation worked from the LiteLLM Playground but failed when invoked through Open WebUI’s built-in generate_image tool. Open WebUI returned only: The problem turned out not to be the FLUX deployment, prompt, API key, reverse proxy, or basic Docker connectivity. Open WebUI was … Read more
Streamlined SSH Tunnels for RDP: Jump Hosts and One-Liner Magic Imagine being a sysadmin ninja, crafting multi-hop SSH tunnels and punching through firewalls like a legend, all without breaking a sweat. If you’ve ever wrestled with layer-upon-layer of SSH hops to access a remote RDP session, you’re probably looking to add some real efficiency to … Read more
“Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.3 port 22: no matching cipher found. Their offer: 3des-cbc” ?! I’ve seen similar errors before, didn’t make good notes on how it was resolved.. so here are a couple of items. 1 – nano ~/.ssh/config and set the connection parameters for each server you often connect to using the example … Read more
Ok, I had to post this because it was causing me some headaches! I dabble with Linux Email servers and want to use Outlook to connect, but was seeing this issue where when connecting to an IMAP/SMTP service it wants to use the “email address” as the login ID as for use in 0365 or … Read more
Overview If you’re working in IT infrastructure, web hosting, or managing secure connections for multiple domains/subdomains, you’ve likely run across SAN certificates. These magic multi-host certs allow for Subject Alternative Names—a necessity when you’re consolidating domains or managing microservices architecture. In this guide, I’ll show you how to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) … Read more
