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When using Apache in front of Domino you need the NE rewrite attribute
Over the last week or so I have been moving to using an Apache server in front of my Domino servers. This has been working really well until I had a problem with Mark Leusink's Auto Login's module The code includes some code that calls a url constructed as...
Solving the SSL V3 / SHA-2 / TLS / MD5 / Poodle problem on Linux – Part 3 – Converting a Domino SSL certificate / Private Key to Apache
Part 1 - What is the problem Part 2 - Installing a simple Linux Reverse Proxy on the same box ( 20 mins ) Part 3 - ( This Post ) Converting your Domino SSL Certificate to work with Apache (30 mins ) Thankfully this post is now obsolete - see this IBM article which...
Solving the SSL V3 / SHA-2 / TLS / MD5 / Poodle problem on Linux – Part 2 – Deploying Apache with Domino
Part 1 - What is the problem Part 2 - ( This Post ) Installing a simple Linux Reverse Proxy on the same box ( 20 mins ) Part 3 - Converting your Domino SSL Certificate to work with Apache (30 mins ) The Fix This fix is to add an Apache Server in front of Domino where...
Solving the Domino SSL V3 / SHA-2 / TLS / MD5 / Poodle problem on Linux – Part 1
Part 1 - ( This post ) What is the problem Part 2 - Installing a simple Linux Reverse Proxy on the same box ( 20 mins ) Part 3 - Converting your Domino SSL Certificate to work with Apache (30 mins ) Update : IBM has published a plan to release fix packs to address...
Don't try to extract the private key from the Domino.kyr file
Update - the method does work - see this post. Not sure why the technote says it doesn't I have been making some good progress with addressing the SSL issues by using an Apache Server in front of Domino and running on the same box - from a HTTP / HTTPS point f view it...
More Domino SSL woes – MD5 CSRs not accepted
So we moved suppliers for SSL certificates after our last one stopped doing SHA-1. We settled on https://www.startssl.com as they were recommended and seem to have a good approach. Unfortunately they will not accept CSR requests using an MD5 checksum as it is not...
SNTT – getting access to a Git derived nsf/ntf when you are not in the ACL
Sometimes when you pull down a git based Notes design you find that you cannot open the NSF that you have crated from the On Disk Project because you do not have access in the ACL. Open the folder structure of the ODP at file system level and use a text editor to...
Adding Jar and zip files to SourceTree Repositories
When we use JAR files such as DocX4J for exporting from XPages we need to store these within the git repositories so that the developer can add them to their /jvm/lib folder when building the XPage application. If the correct jars are not present the build fails. The...
Draft Engage / BLUG Slides – Seeing the Wood for the Trees
I am very honored to be speaking at the fantastic Engage User Group ( formerly known as BLUG ) this week. The session is called "Seeing the Wood for the Trees" and is about how I and my colleagues use Domino Designer, Git Source Control and some mostly Atlassian...
Users losing authenticated access to XPage Apps when using SSO / LTPA Tokens [solved]
One of our keenest users at a customer site was getting very frustrated because they kept loosing edits to documents late on a morning. We checked our session time outs and our "Keep Alive" custom control but everything looked fine. Eventually I realised it was my...