Posts by scottk:
GoDaddy Cert, Safari and the BigIP
Ran into and issue after our deploy with Safari not thinking our secure cert for Gocomics.com was valid. It took some searching but I ran across a post on F5 DevCentral which show how to go to Verisign or the GoDaddy repository and download their intermediate certificate and add it to your chain. The steps are essentially import the certificate:
1. Log in to the Configuration utility.
2. Click Local Traffic.
3. Click SSL Certificates.
4. Click Import.
5. Select Certificate from the Import Type menu.
6. Click the Create New option.
7. Type intermediate for the Certificate Name.
8. Click Browse and navigate to select the intermediate certificate or chain certificate to import.
9. Click Open.
10. Click Import.
and then add it to that Client SSL Profile
1. Log in to the Configuration utility.
2. Click Local Traffic.
3. Click Profiles.
4. Select Client from the SSL menu.
5. Select the Client SSL profile to configure.
6. Select Advanced from the Configuration menu.
7. Select intermediate from the Chain menu.
8. Click Update.
Cake.. once you figure it out.
BigIP pwn3d
It took a whole lot of looking but I finally figured it out, SSL pass through on the BigIP LTM. When passing through a connection from HTTPS to HTTP the Virtual Server needs to have SSL Profile (Client) pointed to a SSL profile you created using your certs, HTTP Profile set to “http”, Port Translation […]
Not so friendly stable Ruby
Went to install ruby on a RHEL4 machine and wanted to get the latest and greatest, becaue the 1.8.1 packed for RHEL4 wouldn’t cut it. So I went out to the ruby site and grabed that package marked latest stable release. I believe this ended up untaring to be 1.8.8.1, which I then  installed. Upon […]
How To Create Linux LVM In 3 Minutes
In this 3-minutes Linux LVM guide, let’s assume that the LVM is not currently configured or in used. Having say that, this is the LVM tutorial if you’re going to setup LVM from the ground up on a production HP server with a new partition allocated within your raid controller How to setup Linux LVM […]
netcat dd
At one point I had this on here but I can’t find it via search this morning so I’ll just go ahead and add it again. Useful for cloning drive partitions when you don’t have the advantage of a SAN. ( taken from here ) On Slave, run nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda […]
RT respond on resolve
I’d done a search before on switching RT to reply to requestors on resolving a ticket rather than it being a comment and came up blank. Today provided this gem: In <path-to-your-RT>/share/html/Ticket/Elements/Tabs, search for the part where it says title => loc(‘Resolve’), (which, in my code, is $actions->{‘B’}), and change it from Action=Comment to Action=Respond […]
mac hosts again
they changed host flushing on osx, the latest way to do it is dscacheutil -flushcache so the post I made earlier is no longer valid mac hosts For future reference, I am not insane when when editing /etc/hosts and the changes don’t show up immediately on OSX. Mac uses lookupd so I need to send […]
Virtualization, Rails and CDNs
A few weeks ago we (not me, but my company) started work on our GoComics igoogle gadget for the release of igoogle v2. We weren’t really sure how well it was going to go over, it didn’t take long before we were suddenly at 150,000 users and we were listed along with the New York […]
Lost some boxcars
Pushed a new site live today and I got a call this evening from my VP, she was getting a 500 error on the site. There is no way this site is getting to much traffic and it works just fine when I pull it up from home. I start log hunting and make my […]
In the Cloud
Today I got my first EC2 instance running. It took a total of about two hours from registering for the service to a point where I had a full CentOS 5 install up and going serving out a static web page. Responsiveness of my server was fast ( even at the cheapest level ) and […]