Been using the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 for the past 2 weeks and was bitten many times by the appalling inconsistencies, not to mention the unnecessary verbosity of the naming conventions, making it painful to write code to handle the requests/responses in a generic way across all the resources. A picture paints a thousand …
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Scenario: A third party security agency hired by your boss or client wishes to monitor the SSH logs on the bastion host of your application. The bastion host is setup on an AWS EC2 instance. Instead of giving direct access to the bastion host for pulling the SSH logs in /var/log/auth.log, we can forward the …
References: Enabling SSL for Solr Taking Solr to Production Steps: SSH into the server. Upload the private key for the renewed SSL certificate as well as the updated certificate chain (just the primary certificate for the domain will not do), e.g. STAR_example_com.key and STAR_example_com_fullchain.pem. If you are unsure, check out my earlier article on Things …
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Do not renew for more than a year. Starting 01 September 2020, SSL certificates will be deemed invalid by Apple and Google if their validity period is greater than 398 days – see this article and this article. If your domain/server needs to be accessed from Safari or Apple devices, you need to keep this …
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Was alerted this morning to server applications failing due to an expired SSL certificate, with logs showing cURL errors. The weird thing was there was still half a month to go before the expiry date. Also, this problem does not affect browsers as the major browsers have already been updated. Importing the renewed SSL certificate …
