Building your own (Domino) containers? Don’t forget to prune Docker
Docker doesn’t clean up after itself. Images, layers, and especially the build cache can grow silently, until your disk fills up. Time to prune.
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When a “Successful” Install… isn’t: A Domino on Linux Gotcha
If your Domino installer “succeeds” in seconds but installs nothing, you might be dealing with a hidden X11 forwarding issue. Here’s the subtle clue that gave it away, and the simple fix.
Continue readingLinux Installfest at Engage
Next week, a large part of the HCL software community will gather in Ghent, Belgium, for the annual Engage conference. I will be a speaker again this year, but in a special role. Daniel Nashed, Bill Malchisky and I teamed up to provide a 3-session workshop style Domino on Linux Installfest.
Continue readingHow to fix SELinux permission denied errors with Nginx config files
If you’ve ever been hit by a “permission denied” error while enabling a new site in nginx and your file permissions look alright, you’re probably facing a SELinux file context problem. This article explains how to fix it.
Continue readingCreating an IBM HTTP Server key db from a .pfx file
t’s a question that I get quite often. “Can you create a IHS key database for me from this pfx certificate”? Multiple of our customers use IBM HTTP Server. Either for HCL Connections, but also as a reverse proxy for other services. Most of those customers use a wildcard certificate for their IHS server that has to be renewed each year. As I hate this kind of repetitive work, I created a script to do it for me. As it could be of use to others, I decided to create a blog article about it.
Continue readingEnd of Life for CentOS 7 AND CentOS 8 Stream
That CentOS 7 would go end-of-life at the end of last month, shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone any more, although many CentOS 7 servers are still around. That CentOS Stream 8 went end-of-life in May 2024 did come as a surprise to me.
Continue readingCreating multiple VLANs on the WAN Connection of your router with OpenWRT
A detour from my normal articles. This one is on how to configure multiple VLANs on your WAN connection using DSA in an OpenWRT router.
Continue readingInstalling wireguard on CentOS Stream 9
I saw a need to have a VPN server at home, so I can connect to my internal network rom anywhere. I chose Wiregaurd as a solution. In this article, I describe how I got Wireguard to work on my CentOS 9 Stream host.
Continue readingNginx as reverse proxy and SNI
Last week, I realised that Domino wasn’t honouring my internet site settings. The default Internet site would deal with all requests. The solution was in a proper proxy configuration at the site of my reverse proxy, Nginx.
Continue readingMaking this blog reachable over IPv6
It’s not difficult to make your site available over IPv6, but IPv6 does work differently from IPv4. This article describes what I did to make my site available over IPv6.
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