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Monday, October 15th, 2007Here’s a tool that John Nash pointed me to that should be really useful if you need to test things in various OSes: VirtualBox is an open source virtualization product that can run on Windows, Linux or Mac and supports quite a large number of guest OSes. Nice.
Today’s question is about secure web sites
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006I’m having some difficulty formulating a search description that doesn’t return items that have nothing to do with what I’m looking for.
On the Spirou server, I have both Apache and Apache-ssl. I’ve got an index page (index.html) that shows up if you type http://spirou.res.crc.ca.
The question: can I have a different index page (which would have […]
Creating a dummy SSL certificate on Linux
Thursday, November 30th, 2006It looks like we’re going to give TellTable a serious reworking, which may result in our jettisoning the whole security aspect of it (or maybe just parts of it, we’ll see). So I’m no longer sure if I want to buy a security certificate for the Linux.
For now, I’m stuck with an non-functional security certificate. […]
Almost there
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006I found the correct file and made the changes. Now apache-ssl starts up, but I’m not sure if it’s actually working since when I type https://spirou.res.crc.ca, I get an error message saying the document contains no data. It does this even when I try to reach telltable.
So frustrating.
The error log says the certificate didn’t work […]
Installing a certificate
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006I went back to the company from which I got a trial certificate, and they say that you need to modify a line in the httpd.conf file. Except this server has seven of those:
/etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf
/etc/apache/httpd.conf
/usr/share/doc/apache-ssl/examples/httpd.conf
/usr/share/doc/apache/examples/httpd.conf
/usr/share/apache/default-configs/apache-perl/httpd.conf
/usr/share/apache/default-configs/apache-ssl/httpd.conf
/usr/share/apache/default-configs/apache/httpd.conf
So now I have to figure out which one is the correct one.
Oh yeah
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Ha, the problem is that the certificate being called is for spirou.dgrc.crc.ca, but of course the IT folks changed our external servers to res, so it should be spirou.res.crc.ca.
Now I need to figure out where the call for the certificate is being done so I can change the text.
Apache-ssl problems - we’re getting close
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Ah ha! Found the problem!
I finally figured out that I needed to read the error file in /var/log/apache-ssl/
Here’s the error message:
[Thu Nov 23 09:24:21 2006] [crit] Can’t open certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/spirou.dgrc.crc.ca.crt, nor /usr/lib/ssl/certs//etc/ssl/certs/spirou.dgrc.crc.ca.crt
[Thu Nov 23 09:44:49 2006] [crit] Can’t open certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/spirou.dgrc.crc.ca.crt, nor /usr/lib/ssl/certs//etc/ssl/certs/spirou.dgrc.crc.ca.crt
[Thu Nov 23 09:48:37 2006] [crit] Can’t open certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/spirou.dgrc.crc.ca.crt, […]
Log files in Linux
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006I’m still having trouble figuring out why apache-ssl isn’t starting up on Spirou, but I think I solved one problem (which was that I hadn’t restarted after upgrading the last time). I also found someone suggesting you do the following from the command line (as admin of course):
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
which seems to have updated […]
Apache-ssl problems
Monday, November 20th, 2006So it looks like apache-ssl didn’t start up on the server, and there seems to be some problem with connecting to the Xandros servers for updates (which may or may not explain the apache-ssl problem).
Random information I need for future reference, because I never remember:
Start up apache-ssl: /etc/init.d/apache-ssl start
Remove apache-ssl: apt-get remove apache-ssl
Install apache-ssl: […]
Linux tips and how-tos
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006I was trying to figure out how much RAM the new Linux server has, which brought me to New Linux User, a blog with lots of tips and how-tos for, well, the new Linux user. Nice URI, by the way.
Jon Watson happened to have two tips right on the first page on how to find […]
