December 21st, 2016 kennyr
Thanks to the suggestions on wetnet.net, this website is now TLS enabled. Compared to the normal process of getting certificates (which has always been a multi-step process and rarely can be done in less than a couple days), using LetsEncrypt was quick and simple. At least for the apache based system here. The big test will be in 90 days to see if the auto-update works like it is suppose to.
The next step is to figure out how to enable TSL for node-js on the DSTAR host. That is going to require more effort, no automated instructions or installation scripts.
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December 28th, 2014 kennyr
Might have noticed that my blog (this thing you are reading) has been dead for the last couple weeks. My main server had a harddisk failure a couple weeks ago and it caused the machine to not boot. I knew the drive was going and my plan was to replace it with an completely new machine. I even had the new machine built and everything moved over to it, except the blog. So old machine died and I thought, now I HAVE to spend the 30 minutes to move the blog.
But of course moving the blog turned out to be much, much harder then it should have been. I have moved the blog several times in the past, I had directions on how to-do it and I even had a working installation to work from, but it would not work.
So after spending most of today doing everything I could think of to spin up the blog with my backup, I finally gave up and just installed a fresh blog. After much Google searching, I found a reference that said if I just restored the wp_posts table into the new installation, it would restore all my posts. This mostly worked, I had to-do a little directory hacking to get my image upload directory to be visual.
I’m done for tonight, I’ll install the plug-ins that suck in twitter and G+ posts tomorrow.
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