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Let’s Encrypt Apache using OpenBSD

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The other day, I discovered that my StartSSL certificate was not trustable anymore. That caused one of my vhost to display the Your connection is not secure alert page. Here’s how I switched to Let’s Encrypt using Apache 2.4 and OpenBSD 6.1.

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Monitor Apache SSL with Munin

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On my munin-node-1.4.5p5, I can only graph HTTP activity ; no HTTPS. There is a plugin though that enables graphing both HTTP and HTTPS. Grab the plugin here ; Copy it in /etc/munin/plugins/ in replacement for the original Munin plugin ; Configure /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/openbsd-packages to know about the Apache ports to monitor: (...) [apache_*] env.ssl yes env.port 80 env.ports 443 (...) Restart munin_node Wait about 5 minutes and check your new shiny HTTP/SSL graphs!

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VNC server on OpenBSD

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Here are quick notes on how to setup a VNC server on OpenBSD. This allows a remote connexion to a X11 session running on an OpenBSD server or workstation.

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My SMTP cheat sheet

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Today is the day when my SMTP server didn’t want me to relay mail after authentication… This is probably my fault as I may have change something without remembering it. Anyway, here the commands to use to talk SMTP to your favorite server.

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Force HTTPS WordPress admin

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If you want WordPress to force TLS encryption for the admin part of the site, then:

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