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How to redirect all http to https in NGINX

Cloud Insidr 2018-09-06 Leave a Comment

How to redirect all http to https in NGINX

When setting up https on an existing server, you need to provide a redirect for all those visitors arriving via http backlinks. Here is how to do this.

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Filed Under: encryption, NGINX Tagged With: HTTPS, NGINX, permanent redirect

How to install the most recent version of OpenSSL on Windows 10 in 64 Bit

Cloud Insidr 2018-06-02 25 Comments

How to install the most recent version of OpenSSL on Windows 10 in 64 Bit

In the age of cyber warfare, being paranoid is the only reasonable attitude and that means, among other things, being paranoid about software updates.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cloud, edge and everything in between, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: cyber security, Linux, OpenSSL, Windows

How to fix the NGINX error “Failed to read PID from file”, quick and easy

Cloud Insidr 2017-12-16 7 Comments

How to fix the NGINX error “Failed to read PID from file”, quick and easy

Here’s a tip on how to fix the error message:

nginx.service: Failed to read PID from file /run/nginx.pid: Invalid argument

quick and easy. This fix should do it for you.

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Filed Under: NGINX Tagged With: NGINX, systemd

Maximize your PHP session security by fixing errors and closing the session adoption vulnerability that allows session fixation attacks

Cloud Insidr 2017-02-20 Leave a Comment

Maximize your PHP session security by fixing errors and closing the session adoption vulnerability that allows session fixation attacks

When the server can’t write to the session data directory, if will use /var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp/ and complain in the error log. You don’t want any of these errors, but a setting considered insecure will not even be reported as such. Here is how to bolster your PHP 7 session security with NGINX and php-fpm.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, NGINX, php-fpm, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: NGINX, permissions, PHP 7, php-fpm, session, session adoption, session fixation

How to set up remote access via SFTP to a web server root directory on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora using key pairs

Cloud Insidr 2016-11-27 3 Comments

How to set up remote access via SFTP to a web server root directory on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora using key pairs

Your users want to access a web server instance as a staging or production environment for DevOps… They want access to the web server document root of the sites they manage. Your job is to maintain the integrity of the whole system in terms of cyber security.

If you happen to be running a web server on Linux—for example in EC2 on Amazon AWS—and need to provide site owners remote access in a secure and responsible manner, here is how to do it.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Linux, NGINX, SELinux, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: DevOps, Dreamweaver, Linux, NGINX, SELinux, SFTP

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