05.20.08

Enabling ssl on your apache2 with debian etch

Posted in Debian, Linux at 11:08 pm by

This is in now way the definitive guide to getting ssl to work on your host. This is what worked for me.

First you need to get openssl

apt-get install openssl ssl-cert

Generate a self signed cert. This will protect your traffic however it will give warning in the browser of the user.

If you don’t want these warnings you will have to get a cert from a trusted certificate authority.

openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem

It will ask some questions, you can fill in what you want on most of them, however

Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []: *.yoursite.com

Make sure you give the name of your top level domain there.

Give the pem file the right permissions:

chmod 600 /etc/apache2/apache.pem

You want the server to listen on the ssl port, so you change /etc/apache2/ports.conf to

Listen 80
Listen 443

You add the Listen 443 line.

Now you want have to edit the default file

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Change
NameVirtualHost *
To
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443

I looked long for this part, for some reason I have to add this to my default file, else ssl doesn’t work on my

other virtual hosts.


SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/apache.pem
SSLEngine On


Then you have to
add

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/apache.pem

to the definition of your host which you want to run with ssl.

sample:

ServerName sample.com

#other directives

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/apache.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/apache.pem

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
That’s it.

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05.18.08

GIT Version system tutorial

Posted in Debian, Linux, Miscellaneous, windows at 3:53 pm by

GIT Version system

Git is a distributed file versioning system. It was initially created by Linus Torvalds. Linus is better known for the creation of linux.

This is some quick guide on getting started with GIT for people with a windows desktop and a linux server.

Download the windows GUI version of git from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list

Install it.

To create a new repository, only needed if you are starting a new project. If you are going to contribute to a existing project skip to the next section

Open a command line. navigate to the place where you want to start a new repository. Create a new directory for the repo.

sample:
md init_repo
cd init_repo
git init
cd ..

git clone –bare init_repo repo.git

Now upload the repo.git directory to your webserver. I do this with winscp, but you can use whatever way you like.

SSH into your server. Install git

example:
apt-get install git-core

To get a existing git repo.

Open a command line.
Navigate to the directory where you want to have the repo.

git clone ssh://username@host.com/path_to_git_repo

I’m using ssh instead of the daemon as I don’t really see an option to password protect the repo.

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