I’m presenting at Engage 2023
I’m happy to announce that I will be a speaker at the Engage conference in Amsterdam this spring with a very exciting session
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Category: Domino
Protecting your Domino container with fail2ban
Your Domino server could be victim to brute force attacks to guess user’s passwords and subsequently use your Domino server a spam gateway. Fail2ban is a elegant way to stop these brute force attacks. If you use Domino containers, you might have to do some extra configuration
Continue readingUnable to run program repaircleanup
HCL renamed a server task in Domino 11. RepairCleanup is now called RprCleanup. If you’re not aware of this, you might get confused.
Continue readingHCL Traveler and error 500
I had an interesting problem with HCL Traveler recently. It should be a very rare problem, but if your Traveler seems ok on the Domino side, but the url just gives an error 500 and the Traveler logs give error CLFAD0211E and/or CLFAD0246E, then this blog might save you a lot of time
Continue readingDomino containers revisited
Since I wrote my original 6-part series on Domino as a container, Daniel Nashed, the main contributor to the project, did some serious refactoring on the scripts, including some new options. This article discusses the changes.
Continue readingWorking with standard Certificate Authorities in Domino 12
The new Certificate Manager of Domino 12 has made it extremely easy to deal with TLS Certificates. Also when working with certificate authorities that use a web portal. However, some administrators still use old pre-12 procedures to request certificates. I’ve described in this article the proper way to do this in Domino 12.
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 6 : Creating your own customisations
In the final part of this series on Domino Docker, I look at how to add your own customisations to your Domino image.
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 5 : Adding add-ons on top of your Domino image
In the previous parts, I explained how to create a Domino image and deploy it. But what if you want to add fix packs to your Domino image? Or Traveler, Volt or Verse? The scripts of the domino-docker project make this super simple. In this part, I’ll show you how to do this.
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 4 : The domino_container script
In part 4 I’ll look in-depth at the script which forms the entrance to all the stuff that’s built into the domino-docker project: domino_container. This script lets you work with the Domino server without ever needing a docker command
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 3 : Running your first Domino server in a container
In part 2 we created a Domino container image. Now we want to start the image. In this part, I’ll show you what to do to make running, restarting and stopping images super easy.
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