I got this question the other day from a Centos administrator: “The certwatch tool has been sending the me an email warning me that I need to renew the SSL Certificate. What do I do?” The email message read like the following (names have been changed): ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################ Certificate for hostname ‘www.yourlinuxguy.com’, [...]
(This article was updated for technical accuracy, and tested, 20100109. I’ve been chasing packages, across URLs, across the ‘Net… Ugh… ) My previous iFolder-related cheat-sheets here on this blog have been reasonably popular (see the ifolder3 category for reference). I get quite a few comments and requests for various configuration alterations and such, but I [...]
So you’ve built a Linux server, and you’re testing it out, and you want to enable SSL for encrypting your http traffic in testing or non-production use. Right. No prob. I’ve put together an extremely quick cheat-sheet on how to do it on a Suse server, and some of it applies to other distros as [...]