A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
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 readingt’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 readingThat 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 readingA 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 readingI 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 readingLast 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 readingIt’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.
Continue readingA small tip that can make troubleshooting in Domino a lot easier. Domino thread IDs contain the PID of the Domino process!
Continue readingPodman 4 includes some major changes to the networking stack (the responsible service is called Netavark and aardvark for dns resolution). These changes are incorporated into podman-compose, but this comes with a major caveat, which I cover in this post.
Continue readingYour 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 readingThis is a collection of things I encountered during my work and were interesting enough to write down. Both for myself and for others. Topics include HCL Connections, HCL Domino, Linux, SQL etc.
