Still not sure what would be the right upgrade path for the server.
Certainly the move to linux servers seems to be working well. Probably better than os x for server use.
Category Archives: Technology
Technology related blogs
Apple event
Wow – apple is finally moving back to something good with its hardware
The Mac mini got the update it needed.
The new air looks reasonably good, and better than the MacBook pros as they have a proper keyboard
And the ipad. That ipad. Looks really good.
This was a really big event – apple is going in the right direction again
And then it goes down
Which is not what you want to be remote trouble shooting, just before boarding, from the airport in the lead up to a 12 hour flight, with no sleep overnight in the lead up to all of this
No idea why the websites went down, but fixed anyway now. Or you wouldn’t be reading this .
Now with SSL
Finally – now working with SSL.
So you can see this site via an encrypted link:
HTTPS://veltman.org
as well as the unencrypted old school link
HTTP://veltman.org
I think it was worth the effort…
SSL working
Got SSL working now on the web server, but not for the proxy yet..
Reverse Proxy working
Wow…
Several hours later, and this website is now hosted on an Ubuntu server.
Technically speaking, no mac required. More importantly, we now have a reverse proxy server working!
Unlocking macOS security features
How to add in a run anywhere option to security:
spctl --master-disable
From admin terminal obviously, and –master-enable to renable
Turning off gatekeeper auto lock:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.GKAutoRearm -bool NO
And obviously the -bool YES to reenable the 30 day lockout
Getting Hacked
Looks like a couple of my websites fell foul of the hacking of the fast secure contact form. Really annoying that I had to undo this.
References on both painscience.com.au and also veltman.org to the script that had inserted this into the headers of all my themes:
<script src='https://json.stringengines.com/pson.js?n=1' type='text/javascript'></script>
I think that what appears to have happened here is that the fast secure contact form was bought by a malicious programmer who then put an update that inserted this malware. Its since been pulled by the wordpress site from the list of plugins.
The original author did do one final update on his website that I’ve downloaded, so I’ll probably need to install that on my servers as it was a useful plugin.
Live and learn.
Increasing the maximum file size for uploads
Just for the record, this needs to go into the .htaccess file in the /etc/apache2 folder.
php_value upload_max_filesize 64M php_value post_max_size 64M php_value max_execution_time 300 php_value max_input_time 300
Updating the Server
It should be easy, but its not.
Thinking about going over to virtualhostx v7 and avoiding running a separate VM. Seems like a good way to go, if it would only work!