If you’ve done any work with virtual machines for any amount of time, you’ve probably ran into the problem that virtual machines tend to fill up their disks quite rapidly. On a Windows VM it usually isn’t a problem, since… Read More ›
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Generating Certificate Signing Requests using OpenSSL
Requesting SSL Certificates can be a bit of a hassle, so today I’m going to show you how to easily generate SSL certificates with the help of OpenSSL and your CA of choice.
Disabling Insecure Ciphers on NGINX – NGINX Tricks Part 4
HTTPS is everywhere these days, but not many people think that much about which cipher suites are considered safe. Cipher suites determines what encryption algorithms are used to secure the communication over HTTPS, and as time goes on older cipher… Read More ›
Adding Custom Root CA Certificates to Debian
Adding custom root CA certificates to Debian is rather easy, but there are some non-obvious pitfalls that you might encounter. Here I’ve tried to collect most things to a single post for your convenience. Adding Custom Root CA Certificates Debian… Read More ›
Enabling HTTP/2 on NGINX – NGINX Tricks Part 3
As you might have heard, there’s a new version of HTTP out there that’s far superior to HTTP/1.1. I won’t go into what exactly has changed in HTTP/2, but it’s faster and more secure, and allows for some even more… Read More ›
Redirecting IP Traffic to HTTPS – NGINX Tricks Part 1
Lately I had a peculiar issue, I wanted to secure a web server running NGINX with HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt, but almost all traffic to said web server request the web page using the IP address of the server, since… Read More ›
Getting started with Let’s Encrypt & Certbot – LE Series Part 1
I’ve been enjoying myself immensely playing around with Let’s Encrypt these last few days, and discovered a couple solution to common problems and issues, so I thought I’d make a small guide mostly for my own reference on how to… Read More ›
Configuring Ubuntu to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
Configuring Debian to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
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