I updated my main laptop to Ubuntu 9.10 on it’s release. It called for a fresh install as this laptop get’s a lot of crap installed left right and centre and an upgrade was not going to clean it up. (Apache, Nginx and Lighttpd, tomcat, netbeans all installed and starting on bootup, argh, plus many […]
After installing Alfresco and admittedly suffering a few hiccups with it I seem to be making enough progress that I also decided to investigate Liferay as an alternative to Plone as our intranet portal and internal information site. There are some areas that Plone really does well such as the content type handling and content […]
It seems that a lot of python2.4 support was dropped from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. Support which without Plone would not run. I started recompiling python packages to bring back python2.4 builds, but this was turning into a slippery slope and would bring back problems if any python package was updated from Ubuntu again. Solution: Use […]
After the last post on the OpenLDAP trouble I had, I’ve continued trying new things with it and can confirm that wildcard domain certificates do succeed with OpenLDAP. When creating the certificate request enter for eg *.example.com in the common name field and you can then use the one certificate on all servers that fall […]
After deciding to learn to setup OpenLDAP yesterday I realised it was more than a days work, and that the documentation that I thought was going to be the most suited for my platform left a lot of holes for the beginner. I also had a firefox window with all the sites I used as […]