Adding TLS configurations in Apache: cat > /etc/ssl/private/myserver.key chmod 0640 /etc/ssl/private/myserver.key chgrp ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/myserver.key cat > /etc/ssl/certs/myserver.crt cd /etc/apache2/sites-available cp default-ssl.conf myserver-ssl.conf vi myserver-ssl.conf – add ServerName if needed – RedirectMatch ^/$ https://myserver.mydomain.com/appname (if needed) – edit SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile a2ensite myserver-ssl a2enmod ssl vi 000-default.conf – add ServerName if needed – Redirect / https://myserver.mydomain.com/ […]
Tag: linux
Sending Twitter DMs in Zabbix Actions
When configuring actions in Zabbix for example for problem alerts, there is a built-in method for sending email notifications. Here are the instructions for sending alerts as Twitter direct messages. These instructions are based on a Debian 8 Jessie installation where Zabbix has been installed from the packages in the Zabbix repository. You maybe want […]
SoftEther VPN with a VPN Address Pool
For replacing a physical remote access VPN implementation with a VPN server in a virtual machine, one of the options is SoftEther. There is a lot of documentation in the site but somehow I felt the material was hard to absorb. In this post I describe the reference implementation I managed to complete with SoftEther. […]
Setting Up a Syslog Server
In the field of networking it is very useful to have a centralized location for your logs as the system itself (the network) is distributed. Syslog is the usual method of collecting the logs. There are lots of different solutions to collect syslogs, ranging from general-purpose servers or virtual machines running some syslog daemon software […]
Installing VMware Tools on Debian Linux
[Updated on 1-Apr-2017: For a long time now I haven’t bothered with installing VMware Tools manually anymore. Instead I’ve just used the open-vm-tools package included in Debian, so a plain “apt-get install open-vm-tools” does the job. I’ve understood that some features are missing when compared to the original VMware Tools, so be sure to check […]