If you are a Linux geek like me you probably have a text file in your home directory with all your favorite command line ‘fu tricks. I thought I would share some of the ones I have collected over the years which can come in useful for remote servers where the only access you have…
When purchasing SSL certificates for your website online you will be required to generate a SSL CSR, or Certificate Signing Request, to obtain a SSL CRT, or Certificate. In the process of generating your CSR you will be required to provide numerous pieces of information including Country, State, City, Company, Department, server common name, contact email…
After modify some Perl modules with CPAN I started getting the below errors in the Apache error_log. Errors: [Sun Jul 12 14:15:03 2009] [notice] child pid 4329 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sun Jul 12 14:15:27 2009] [notice] child pid 4331 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sun Jul 12 14:15:30 2009] [notice] child pid 5065…
I have had a server running ISPConfig 2.x for quite some time and have been wanting to make the transition to ISPConfig 3.x as soon as I had a chance. That chance presented itself earlier this weekend and I am glad to say there were no major issues thanks to the amazing how to from…
Most of the logging options for LiteSpeed web server are very basic and general however I wanted to detail them to help others make educated decisions when it comes to the logging configuration. There is one option I use outside of the normal log configurations which is configured in a tab other than the log…
When attempting to upload files via the WordPress admin to your blog you might receive the below error. This error can be caused for a couple different reasons of which the main reason relates to permissions. Resolving the issue is a security risk but depending on how convenient you want it to be to upload…
After purchasing a wildcard SSL certificate I was hoping to be able to redirect all traffic from http://example.com to https://www.example.com. There were two main goals which were to redirect all traffic to www.example.com and to require HTTPS. There is one flaw with this plan as it requires two valid certificates to work 100% of the…
The below error will be seen in the ssl_error_log typically located in /var/log/httpd for numerous reasons. Below is an explanation of what two of those reasons might cause Apache to not start and how to resolve the problem.
As you add services, contacts, contact groups, commands, and devices to Nagios the bulk editing begins to become very tedious. Monarch is a great tool to manage Nagios configuration(.cfg) files. To install Monarch follow the instructions provided in the README.txt that comes with the product. Below I provide instructions to assist in that installation along with…