My servers have been using free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates for some time now, but I was really excited to hear about support for wildcard SSL certificates in 2018. Wildcards…
September 17, 2018
I use JIRA in a cloud infrastructure where it's obviously desirable to serve the contents over SSL, therefore I set up an NGINX as a JIRA reverse proxy for unencrypted requests…
November 11, 2017
It's not uncommon to need to validate if an SSL certificate / private key combination is valid. The easiest way to do this is with OpenSSL, an open source library that... is a…
September 29, 2017
I always wanted all of my sites to run over SSL, but it also didn't seem worth the expense of buying certificates for all the domains I own. Enter Let's Encrypt which offers free…
April 24, 2016
I use the Admin Columns Pro plugin on several of my WordPress site to easily customize the layout in my admin tables. As it is a premium plugin updates to it are not hosted on…
November 2, 2014
As time progresses some of my VPS machines are starting to show their age running CentOS 5. As CentOS is based on Redhat, the yum repositories often contain older versions of…
October 18, 2014
NGINX reverse proxies can be a very powerful tool for many reasons and recently came to the rescue as I was at a loss as to how to provide access to a legacy website when…
July 21, 2014
To properly install a GoDaddy SSL certificate on an NGINX install, you will need to include the gd_intermediate.crt and gd_bundle.crt the SSL certificate file for your server.…
April 9, 2014
A self-signed certificate can be used for many things, but in this case it is to provide HTTP over SSL from Apache, HTTPS. In many cases a CA signed certificate is not required -…
March 12, 2014
There is a lot of info to be found on the Internet about the "502 Bad Gateway Error" when trying trying to move a directory or files when your repository is hosted on Apache…
November 2, 2012