Tag Archive: VirtualHost

Ubuntu, Apache, VirtualHosts, and SSL – part 2

In my first post about Ubuntu, Apache, VirtualHosts, and SSL I covered generating self-signed certificates and implementing them for Apache VirtualHosts. What I didn’t cover was — if you implemented this without a correct base configuration — you’d end up with some unexpected results if you tried to visit your base domain over SSL. It’s …

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Permanent link to this article: http://mikebeach.org/2011/05/18/ubuntu-apache-virtualhosts-and-ssl-part-2/

Forcing SSL for phpMyAdmin

After configuring WordPress to force SSL in the administration area, I was in phpMyAdmin and realized that it’s also not configured to do the same by default. From the phpMyAdmin Wiki, add the following line at the end of your /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php file $cfg['ForceSSL'] = TRUE; This will cause sessions to force SSL. If you’re having …

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Permanent link to this article: http://mikebeach.org/2011/05/16/forcing-ssl-for-phpmyadmin/

Forcing the WordPress administration over SSL

From the WordPress administration over SSL guide, add the following directive to your wp-config.php file: define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true); This will cause logins and admin pages to force SSL sessions. If you’re having issues making this work for you, check out my article involving Apache and SSL. Questions, comments, and feedback are welcome.

Permanent link to this article: http://mikebeach.org/2011/05/14/forcing-the-wordpress-administration-over-ssl/

Ubuntu, Apache, VirtualHosts, and SSL

The goal of this guide is to provide you with an Apache SSL configuration with a unique self-signed certificate for each VirtualHost. These self-signed certificates are not intended for e-commerce or public-facing web sites. Rather, they are intended for SSL encryption of administration areas on personal websites or administration programs that have HTTP interfaces. Of …

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Permanent link to this article: http://mikebeach.org/2011/05/04/ubuntu-apache-virtualhosts-and-ssl/

WordPress, suPHP, and Ubuntu Server 10.04

If you have WordPress running under an unprivileged user account, you may have noticed that when trying to install or delete a plugin that it prompts you for FTP information. This is due to a rather unintuitive way that WordPress checks for file access: The following code is from the get_filesystem_method() method in the wp-admin/includes/file.php …

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Permanent link to this article: http://mikebeach.org/2011/03/20/wordpress-suphp-and-ubuntu-server-10-04/