Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

7.10 ssl apache2

For the records: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4466&page=5

NameVirtualHost *:443
<virtualhost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem

DocumentRoot /var/www/
<directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</directory>

<directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
# Commented out for Ubuntu
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</directory>

</virtualhost>

NameVirtualHost *:80
<virtualhost *:80>

Heron nvidia-glx-new after upgrade

This was the only way I could get nvidia drivers working after the upgrade to Heron Beta.

sudo apt-get –purge remove nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings

sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-*
sudo update-rc.d nvidia-kernel remove
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

Then I had to do sudo nvidia-xconfig

reboot again

good to go.

Tags: Hardy, Linux

Twitter, the Evil

Yes, twitter has taken away from my blog time, no doubt. Twitter is an evil evil web based circle of hell, and I can’t stop. Somehow, I will get out of the habit, but first, I must twitter more.

For the record $HOME/bin works by default in Ubuntu, so you can make youself a /home/yourname/bin directory, put your scripts in there, and run them. Bang!

Tags: twitter, bash

Why Open Source Is So Damn Cool

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Day 1 - Training

Today was every so slightly frustrating. While the training was good, the VMs for the class were created on windows. Not only that, but somehow the paths were hard coded, so one of the VMs was referencing C:\blahblah and would not open. After about an hour of hacking away, I could not get it to run. This ticks me off, because VMs should be agnostic, which is the whole point, so you can only take the error so many times on linux before you want to throw a brick at the windows users in the room.
It is very apparent that my skills in security have greatly increased over the past year, mainly due to running Linux full time, and having to concentrate on server side operations. I like being in the top 25% of the class as far as understanding the content.
A couple notes. I need to keep up my documentation for open ports on servers. Documentation seems to be where I need to focus, even though I have been over the past year, I need to step it up.

owasp.org for web vulnerabilities, a nice little site I need to investigate more.

More to come…

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