Sep
24
2016
While generating a Microsoft Exchange (or IIS web server) certificate, take the opportunity to add extra domain names and reuse it on Apache web servers. This will save you a few bucks and time, unless the CA provides a certificate for multiple platforms. PFX is a popular exchange format on Microsoft software such as Exchange […]
Tags: Apache, Certificate, Exchange, iis, Openssl, SSL
Sep
13
2015
Apache configured as a reverse proxy forwards requests to a web backend. But your browser throws an enigmatic 503 error: “Service temporarily unavailable”. The first thing I do is looking at the http logs in /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log, where I am getting some permission issue:(13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 192.168.1.250:8080 (*) failed You may […]
Tags: Apache, linux, Proxy
Oct
05
2010
Configure Apache to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS protocol. This can be achieved with mod_rewrite. RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off filters incoming requests which protocol isn’t HTTPS.
Tags: Apache
Sep
26
2006
Steps to authenticate Apache against Windows Active Directory with LDAP module.
Tags: Apache, Authentication, ldap, linux, Windows