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Sideshoots - associated subjects => News, Help and Assistance => Topic started by: grahame on December 27, 2018, 17:17:25



Title: Server - works setting up SSL hosting
Post by: grahame on December 27, 2018, 17:17:25
A note that the server had been a bit bouncy (up and down) over the last few hours and there may be some more of that to come - playing about with SSL certificates which I never find simple ... often feel that one of the qualifications you need to set up and install the darned things is a rugged determination ...


Title: Re: Server - works setting up SSL hosting
Post by: Red Squirrel on December 27, 2018, 23:31:23
Yes. Utter utter utter utter pain.


Title: Re: Server - works setting up SSL hosting
Post by: MVR S&T on December 28, 2018, 00:28:00
Was that O2's issue recently..


Title: Re: Server - works setting up SSL hosting
Post by: grahame on December 28, 2018, 02:10:55
Yes. Utter utter utter utter pain.

And I may have screwed something up ... server went down / just looking to see if it was a co-incidence


Title: Re: Server - works setting up SSL hosting
Post by: grahame on December 30, 2018, 07:05:19
Yes. Utter utter utter utter pain.

And I may have screwed something up ... server went down / just looking to see if it was a co-incidence


I think it was a co-incidence; I was worried having rebuild the program that serves the site (the Apache web server) to include SSL modules.   I am, however, aware that if you now try and access the Coffee Shop through https - which previously was not available - you're now likely to get a warning from your browser in very concerning words (which actually needn't be concerning in this case).   Big thanks to the for member who alerted me and made constructive suggestions - I'm following up, but with a config change (if I can work it  out) to change the certificate to per-domain; our server has some 20 and I want to see https in use in due course for the coffee shop too.

First https site on the server: https://www.melkshamremembers.org.uk - nothing to do with Transport ...



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