Setting up Transport Layer Security (TLS), or as previously known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), for Apache, Postfix and IMAP like Dovecot is fairly easy. You just need some digital certificates and configuration. If you don’t want to pay for certificates from trusted sources like Thawte or you just don’t need that kind of trust (for development purposes), you can always produce your own certificates.… Continue reading
After moving Rule of Tech to a new server and setting up monitoring I noticed that server-status and server-info Apache modules weren’t working as expected. As usual a little bit of Googling solved this problem.
The problem was that the .htaccess rules in WordPress were taking over non-existing server-info and server-status urls given in Apache’s config and were returning a page not found error.… Continue reading
CentOS doesn’t have a package for Sun JDK so it has to installed manually. It’s fairly easy but there are some steps to do that. This guide has been tested on CentOS 5.4 x64_86.
Step 1. Initial setup for building RPM
-!- Do this with a non-root user
$ vim ~/.rpmmacros %_topdir /home//rpmbuild %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
$ mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,RPMS,tmp,BUILD}