Intro: Since a while now the wonderful idea of creating the service Letsencrypt has made lots of admins happy. Here is how we can also use Letsencrypt with ISPConfig 3.1. Ref: https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/ssl-how-to-for-ispconfig-3-with-letsencrypt.74738/ STEPS: Define ISPconfig to use the new SSL certificate with symbolic links. (If you don’t know how to use symbolic links this how-to …
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Issue free and CA signed SSL certificates for web servers from LetsEncrypt
Introduction: SSL Certificates provide two functions: 1. Authentication 2. Encryption Encryption can be achieved without authentication but, for some reason, someone decided to join them together in one certificate. It seem to make sense for banks and serious e-commerce sites which need to be properly authenticated. Therefore when the HTTPS protocol got developed it was …
Installing TeamPass in Debian Jessie
Introduction: TeamPass is a very good Web application which can store securely Passwords for single person or teams. Here are the steps I used to install it in Debian Jessie. These instructions can also be used with no or minimal changes to install TeamPass in other Debian or Ubuntu systems. These instruction are partly based …
Enabling SPDY and Strict-Transport-Security to NginX in Ubuntu 14.04
In Ubuntu 14.04 NginX is been compiled with the SPDY capability. To use it one must enable it inside the server {…} block for each virtual host. eg. server { server_name mprofi.com www.mprofi.com; root /var/www/mprofi.com; index index.php; # # Added to handle HTTP and HTTPS and SPDY listen 80; listen 443 ssl spdy; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.mysite.com/fullchain.pem; …
Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in NginX
Here is a working method of redirecting any requested HTTP URL to HTTPS in NginX VirtualHosts that handles both HTTP and HTTPS. For example, to have a single vhost support both HTTP and HTTPS you have normally the following directives: # Support for HTTP and HTTPS listen 80; listen 443 ssl; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.myserver.com/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.myserver.com/privkey.pem; …