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Create self signing SSL Certificate

lalit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:10:58 +0000

Generate server key
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 4096
Create certificate signing request
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
Sign the certificate signing request with the server key
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
Make the server key that does not need the password
openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure
Do some house cleaning
mv server.key server.key.secure mv server.key.insecure server.key
Use the following files in apache configuration
server.key server.crt

Force SSL on apache

lalit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:17:53 +0000

mod rewrite should be enabled on apache. Add the following to your apache config file.
######################################### #### XXX: BEGIN EDIT FOR MOD_REWRITE #### #### This is intended to force HTTPS #### #### for all inbound HTTP requests ####


####

# This module (mod_rewrite) simply tells Apache2 that all connections to

# port 80 need to go to port 443 – SSL – No exceptions

####


LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so





RewriteEngine on
####

# The line below sets the rewrite condition for mod_rewrite.so.

# That is, if the server port does not equal 443, then this condition is true

####
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
####

# The line below is the rule, it states that if above condition is true,

# and the request can be any url, then redirect everything to https:// plus

# the original url that was requested.

####
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R,L]

#### XXX: END EDIT FOR MOD_REWRITE ####

Enable register_global through .htaccess

lalit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:36:10 +0000

I would not recommend to enable register_globals, but if you need to enable the register_globals for a particular web folder, you can edit the .htaccess file and append the following to it

php_flag register_globals on

Restart apache and you are on your way.

Mounted cifs folder does not display images

lalit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:09:43 +0000

To host a test website, I had mounted a folder on my Linux server from my Vista machine. When I opened the browser and went to the website, I was unable to view the images. The website worked fine except the images were not showing up. Upon a little research it turned out that I had to disable the “EnableSendfile” in my httpd.conf file.

EnableSendfile Off

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