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DNS Based Challenge Verification SSL Certificates

Introduction Letsencrypt offer free SSL certs but the one caveat is they have a short 90 day expiry. There is the option to setup automatic renewal using file based verification if the web server is accessible publicly, however if you need

David Messenger 30th January 201830th January 2018 Apache, Certificates, SSL, Web Hosting No Comments Read more

Install Apache2 mod_wsgi Ubuntu

Introduction First place to start is the docs: https://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/develop/user-guides/quick-installation-guide.html Advises to install dev packages for apache and python if not installed. Use the latest version from source rather than using the versions in the repos. Once you’ve built from source,

David Messenger 9th February 2017 Apache, Linux, Ubuntu, Web Hosting No Comments Read more

Generate a CSR Using Openssl

Generate a CSR Using Openssl

Introduction Just a quick refresher on generating certificate signing requests. Generate the RSA key Create a RSA key for your Apache server, since every distro is different in where to place the certificates, we are just going to place it

David Messenger 24th May 201628th November 2016 Apache, Certificates, Linux, openssl, SSL, Web Hosting No Comments Read more

Stop Apache Asking for SSL Passphrase after Restart

Stop Apache Asking for SSL Passphrase after Restart

Introduction After upgrading my sites to SSL/TLS I had an annoying issue where after a reboot, I would have to kill the Apache process and start it again manually because it would fail first time because it did not have

David Messenger 22nd February 201623rd February 2016 Apache, Certificates, Linux, openssl, SSL, Ubuntu, Web Hosting, Wordpress No Comments Read more

How to Auto Redirect Apache Default Webpage to a Specific Page CentOS

How to Auto Redirect Apache Default Webpage to a Specific Page CentOS

Introduction Not much to add here as its the same as an older post: https://ip-life.net/how-to-auto-redirect-apache-default-webpage-to-a-specific-page/ Fix The only difference required in CentOS is to actually make the index file in the /var/www/html/ location: # touch /var/www/html/index.html Then modify as per

David Messenger 18th June 20152nd August 2015 Apache, CentOS, Linux, Web Hosting No Comments Read more

Cacti Validation Error

Introduction You try and add a new graph/s to a Graph Tree in cacti but you get “Validation error”. Fix Try editing the: /usr/share/cacti/graphs.php file and comment out the following line and restart apache. //input_validate_input_number(get_request_var_post(‘drp_action’)); service httpd restart  

David Messenger 5th June 2015 Apache, Cacti, CentOS, Linux, Network Monitoring No Comments Read more

How to Auto Redirect Apache Default Webpage to a Specific Page

How to Auto Redirect Apache Default Webpage to a Specific Page

Introduction I wanted the default webpage of an internal server to go to the Cgi-bin directory so I could see my configs. Configuration Here’s what I did. Log into the server via SSH. #sudo su So I could modify the

David Messenger 25th February 201525th February 2015 Apache, Web Hosting No Comments Read more

404 Errors With Permalinks Set To %postname%

404 Errors With Permalinks Set To %postname%

Introduction I wanted to change my blog from the ugly default links of database entries to something more meaningful and pleasing to the eye. I decided to use “post name” as the permalink settings but low and behold it wasn’t so

David Messenger 22nd February 201525th February 2015 Apache, Linux, Web Hosting, Wordpress 1 Comment Read more

Configuring an Apache Reverse Proxy for Multiple Domains

Configuring an Apache Reverse Proxy for Multiple Domains

Introduction I was given a task by my new employer to implement a reverse proxy. This is something in my career I had never done before or was even aware was used on a daily basis to protect back-end web

David Messenger 15th February 201516th November 2019 Apache, Linux, Ubuntu, Web Hosting No Comments Read more

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