Project Uptime : Progress Report – 4
Continuing to lock down the server as part of project uptime a bit more.. I highly recommend enabling and using iptables on every Linux server. I...
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Project Uptime : Progress Report – 3
Things have been a bit hectic at work.. so didn’t get a lot of time to work on this project. Now that that the new server...
DID YOU KNOW : Windows mobile and wildcard certs don't work together
Wildcard SSL certificates allow you to use one certificate for all sub domains (up to one level) of a host. Say I got a wildcard SSL...
Project Uptime : Progress Report – 2
After I installed the new kernel as mentioned in this update, I was still seeing the server booting up with the older version. I tried to...
HOW TO : Check SSL certificate validity using curl
If you want to check the SSL certificate validation (expiry time, hostname match, self signed etc) using curl, you can do it by running [code]curl -cacert...
HOW TO : Generate MD5 fingerprint of SSL cert
Quick onliner on generating a MD5 fingerprint for a SSL certificate using openssl [code]openssl x509 -noout -md5 -fingerprint -in NAME_OF_CERTIFICATE_FILE [/code] If you don’t specify the...