Some time ago I registered for a virtual training. The training material was made available in a web app. No PDF or a downloadable version of the material. Not a big issue, as long as I had internet access and only wanted to read the material. Problems started when I Read more…
In a previous blog, I showed how to download files using wget. The interesting part of this blog was to pass the authentication cookies to the server as well as using the file name given by the Content-Disposition directive when saving the file. The example of the previous blog was Read more…
In my previous blog I showed how wget can be used to download a file from a server using HTTP headers for authentication and how to use Content-Disposition directive send by the server to determine the correct file name. With the information of the blog it`s possible to download a Read more…
A 5xx error code is returned by a web server when something went wrong: The server was not able to process the request. For a reverse proxy, a common 5xx error message is 503, meaning that the backend server is not reachable. In the technical architecture of my blog site, the Read more…
A tool for download web resources is wget. It comes with a feature to mirror web sites, but you can also use it to download specific files, like PDFs. This is very easy and straightforward to do: wget <url> Example: wget http://localhost/doc.pdf This will instruct wget to download the file Read more…
Recently I restarted one of my Linux servers and the computer did not start up as expected. No external accessible service was running, like apache or SSH. This made the computer inaccessible from remote and left me in the dark. After a while, the server responded to ping, but nothing Read more…
The overall process is: Create CA Private CA key Create private key Check private key Public CA certificate Create public certificate Check public certificate Sign CSR SHA-1 Create CSR using SHA-1 Check CSR Sign CSR enforcing SHA-256 Check signed certificate SHA-256 Create CSR using SHA-256 Check CSR Sign CSR Check Read more…
The overall process is: Create CA Private CA key Create private key Check private key Public CA certificate Create public certificate Check public certificate Sign CSR SHA-1 Create CSR using SHA-1 Check CSR Sign CSR enforcing SHA-256 Check signed certificate SHA-256 Create CSR using SHA-256 Check CSR Sign CSR Check Read more…
The overall process is: Create CA Private CA key Create private key Check private key Public CA certificate Create public certificate Check public certificate Sign CSR SHA-1 Create CSR using SHA-1 Check CSR Sign CSR enforcing SHA-256 Check signed certificate SHA-256 Create CSR using SHA-256 Check CSR Sign CSR Check Read more…
WordPress is easy to update … if everything works. I updated my WordPress version many times without problems, patches are installed automatically. Only minor versions I do install manually. Last time I updated, an error happened. Luckily, not for my users, the public site was up and running. My admin Read more…