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Apache SSL

imported from wiki, 16 February 2005

Introduction

This article will show you how to generate a Certificate Authority (CA), a server certificate and then how to sign this certificate yourself. Finally it will describe how to configure Apache and have a working SSL web server.

I recommend you read the whole article before going straight in to it too.

Software needed

I was using a base distribution of Debian stable, Apache 1.3.26, mod_ssl 2.8.7 and openssl 0.9.6c.

This should be generic enough to use with any distribution but the configuration may vary if you’re using Apache2 for example.

So obviously you need Apache, mod_ssl and openssl [continued…]

4th December2004

imported from wiki, 16 February 2005

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 4th December 2004

Where: SeminarRoom1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.

Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_12_2004

Who was there

8th January2005

imported from wiki, 15 February 2005

When: 13:00 – 17:00, Saturday 8th January 2005

Where: Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Portsmouth.

Who was there:

What happened:

Quite a quiet meeting, but it was nice to welcome Rhys from NickWhitelegg‘s UNIX course and Lee, who found out about the LUG from this website.

Partitioning Schemes

imported from wiki, 13 February 2005

A frequent exchange on the MailingList is:

:”How should I partition my disk?” :”That depends”

This page explains why it depends, and what the benefits and drawbacks are for the various options.

Why partition at all?

What partitions might I use?

A typical configuration might include:

/ /boot /home /usr /var /tmp

Other filesystems might be:

/usr/local /opt /var/log /var/mail

How big should they be?

Examples

Home server (internal file/mail machine)

hrm@vlad:hrm $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/primary/root 256M 88M 169M 35% / /dev/sda1 126M 39M 87M 31% [continued...]

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