Applications for new users.

April 7, 2009 Posted by

Often a lot of new users have used windows for several years before switching to linux and half the problem is that they have no idea what the equivalent program is to run. This document is a small idea just to get you started. Media I have done this one first because often the first […]

Linux Overview

April 7, 2009 Posted by

What is Linux? Strictly speaking, Linux is the kernel of a computer operating system. A kernel is software that enables communications between computer applications and hardware, providing system services like file management, virtual memory, device I/O, and more. An Operating System needs more than just the kernel. The GNU organization ported, wrote and developed many […]

How to create an SSL certificate for Apache

April 7, 2009 Posted by

Ok heres a script which takes you through the annoying part #!/bin/sh SERVER=zeald.com PRIVATE_KEY=$SERVER.private.key CERTIFICATE_FILE=$SERVER.crt SIGNING_REQUEST=$SERVER.signing.request VALID_DAYS=365 echo Delete old private key rm $PRIVATE_KEY echo Create new private/public-keys without passphrase for server openssl genrsa -out $PRIVATE_KEY 1024 echo Create file for signing request rm $SIGNING_REQUEST openssl req -new -days $VALID_DAYS -key $PRIVATE_KEY -out $SIGNING_REQUEST echo […]