How to turn off the TLS default in FileZilla?
Posted onA short post for my colleagues at the customer support and anyone else wondering the same: how to turn off the FTP over TLS default in FileZilla?
Tag: TLS
SSL in WordPress: how to move WordPress to HTTPS? The definitive guide
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How to add SSL and HTTPS in your WordPress site, the definitive guide! Did you know that having an SSL certificate on your website is the de-facto standard nowadays? Google ranks sites having HTTPS higher in their SERP. But in WordPress, what do you need to do to set up, enable and install an SSL certificate in your WordPress website? You’ll learn the important steps to move WordPress from http to https in this post.
Ghost on IIS with HTTPS, how to resolve a “Too many redirects” error
Posted onWhen you use iisnode to host the Node.js blogging software Ghost on your IIS web server, and you set up an SSL certificate for your Ghost website, you may run into too many redirect issues when changing Ghost’s config.js file. This happend to me yesterday, and here is the solution.
How to enable HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) on IIS
Posted onSet up HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) in Windows Server IIS. Scott Hanselman wrote a great post on how to enable HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) on IIS web servers, and here is some more technical information about HSTS in IIS (and other security headers)…
Load Transposh Translation Filter over HTTPS
Posted onTransposh Translation Filter is the translation filter for WordPress, Transposh helps you multi-lingualize your blog with ease by translating your posts automagically. Unfortunately, Transposh plugin doesn’t load over HTTPS, which is easy to fix…
Send authenticated email over TLS from Zen Cart
Posted onZen Cart is an open source shopping cart software. Unfortunately, Zen Cart has had some difficulties in the past sending authenticated SMTP email from a website. Here is how to let Zen Cart send email over an encrypted TLS connection, when the following condition is met: StartTLS is required. Since Zen Cart v1.5.2 StartTLS support […]
How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS on IIS
Posted onAn HTTP to HTTPS redirect on IIS is often better left to the web server, with a simple httpRedirect redirection, than to a resource expensive URL Rewrite. Where possible, use the IIS httpRedirect element for IIS HTTP to HTTPS redirection, and here is how:
Monit monitoring on Ubuntu 14.04 VM on Hyper-V
Posted onMonit monitoring for websites and services, on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VM, hosted on a Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 Hyper-V. This post is about setting up a Monit monitoring service. Monit is a free and open source service monitoring application which can perform various event-based actions. Monit can send email notifications, restart […]
PHP script to check website availability with PHP/cURL
Posted onHere you find a PHP script to check if a website is online availability with PHP/cURL. The following PHP function checks if your website is online available or not. Website uptime and availability is important and you want your website to be always online available. When your website is down, you want to be notified […]
Send authenticated SMTP email over TLS from WordPress
Posted onHow to configure TLS for SMTP email in WordPress. I was suprised WordPress is not able to send email using an SMTP server out-of-the-box. Not to mention using authenticated SMTP or TLS transport for security. A quick Google search showed me multiple plugins to handle this, but I wanted to create something myself. Here is […]
Send email with Ghost using SMTP authentication and TLS encryption
Posted onHow to send email with Ghost publishing platform, with SMTP authentication over a TLS encrypted connection. Nodemailer is module for Node.js, for sending out emails, with support included for Unicode, HTML, SMTP, XOAUTH, SSL and TLS
How to test SMTP Authentication and StartTLS
Posted onHow to investigate and resolve StartTLS/TLS authentication issues on SMTP, IMAP, POP3 servers with the openssl client library, using the command line
Information about HeartBleed and IIS
Posted onInformation about HeartBleed and IIS. Via Erez’s IIS Blog:
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Apache 2.4
Posted onThe last few day’s I’ve been toying with Nagios, setting up a monitoring system. An Apache redirect to HTTPS was one of the tasks I wanted to accomplish. This would redirect the Nagios vhost from HTTP to HTTPS using an Apache 2.4.6 VirtualHost, and no resource expensive rewrite would be necessary.
Fix "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel" error
Posted onToday one of our clients received a System.Net.WebException error on a newly deployed ASP.NET web application. Part of the exception was: “System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.“. Here is how we resolved that issue.