Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/30/2017 09:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: than my site traffic is. So once I've restored normal http operations, I'll come back and see if I can find some help converting it to https. Thank you david...@freevolt.org. If you were running wordpress, there are plugins to automate the convers

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:31:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 03 May 2017 05:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > I'm too old for that shit). > > At 82 & long retired, so am I. But I'm still carving xml right now, > prettying up

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 May 2017 05:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I've been looking at nginx myself, and wondering if it was any > > easier to setup. Apache2 can be a mutant bear with 6 sore paws. > > This is a nice descriptio

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I've been looking at nginx myself, and wondering if it was any easier to > setup. Apache2 can be a mutant bear with 6 sore paws. This is a nice description ;-) Remember that in

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 17:18:13 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:42:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on > > this machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it > > via the NAT menu. > > You will ne

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 17:13:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I don't understand that: do you find Apache's config worse, or > > lighttpd's or nginx's? > > Sorry I was unclear: I meant I find Apache's config the worst. It was > the

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:42:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Humm, is this sounding like I should open up a fwd to port 443 on this > machine in dd-wrt? As it is, I am only NATing port 6309 to it via the > NAT menu. You will need to open another port up for HTTPS, yes, and 443 is the default.

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:24:42PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I don't understand that: do you find Apache's config worse, or > lighttpd's or nginx's? Sorry I was unclear: I meant I find Apache's config the worst. It was the first HTTPD I used, and I spent many years supporting it professiona

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 May 2017 06:35:19 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty > > tight sandbox, but not running https. > > > > Where can I find a tut that is a com

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 11:35:19AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [...] > one of the instruction sets you were following was suggesting to use > mod_rewrite. Personally, I think that's overkill [...] Good advice. Debugging Apache's mod_rewrite turns

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:35:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My web site (see the sig) is local, on this machine, in a pretty tight > sandbox, but not running https. > > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it do > an auto-redirect to itself, b

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread davidson
On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2017 20:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: [trimmed] lynx support at lynx.isc.org has been deleted. And it won't work without talking to isc.org first. Even after being re-installed. Lynx

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread davidson
On Mon, 1 May 2017, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 01 May 2017 01:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: Development of lynx continues unabated: http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html The most recent reference seems to be to 2015: "Finally (as of 2015) " I linked to that page b

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, May 01, 2017 02:54:05 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, May 01, 2017 12:57:58 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2017 11:18:21 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I hadn't heard anything about this, so I tried Googling. The only > > > thing I've found so far is reference to

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, May 01, 2017 12:57:58 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2017 11:18:21 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I hadn't heard anything about this, so I tried Googling. The only > > thing I've found so far is reference to an optional add-on / plugin > > ("HTTPS Everywhere", iiuc) that would

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 11:18:21 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, April 30, 2017 09:32:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > All this got started because > > the next firefox says it will not look at a plain http site, and I > > was > > I hadn't heard anything about this, so I tried Googling. The onl

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 09:32:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > All this got started because > the next firefox says it will not look at a plain http site, and I was I hadn't heard anything about this, so I tried Googling. The only thing I've found so far is reference to an optional add-on / plugin

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 09:28:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:32:33PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/ > > > > > > makes a sensible default. > > > > except I am then trapped in my home dir. > > *boggle* > > You can press 'g' and then paste (or typ

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-05-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:32:33PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/ > > > > makes a sensible default. > > except I am then trapped in my home dir. *boggle* You can press 'g' and then paste (or type) whatever URL you want into the terminal. You are not "trapped" any

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 April 2017 20:51:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2017 01:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: > > Development of lynx continues unabated: > > > > http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html > > The most recent reference seems to be to 2015: > "Finally (as of 2015)

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 April 2017 20:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > >>> Gene Heskett: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Diet

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 01 May 2017 01:19:21 david...@freevolt.org wrote: > Development of lynx continues unabated: > > http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html The most recent reference seems to be to 2015: "Finally (as of 2015) " Lisi

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread davidson
On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: Gene Heskett: On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: Gene Heskett writes: Where can I find a tut that is a complete in

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:07:47 -04 Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] > > I don't have 2.4, 2.2 here on wheezy. > > Looking in the docs/2.2/envvars reference and trying some of the commands > I find I apparently must specify the port # somehow. apache2ctl cannot > connect on port 80. It apparently us

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 30-04-17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > Gene Heskett: > > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > > > >> Gene Heskett writes: > > > >>> Where can I find a

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Gene Heskett: > > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > > >> Gene Heskett writes: > > >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to > > >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Gene Heskett: > > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > >> Gene Heskett writes: > >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have > >>> it do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Gene Heskett: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: >> Gene Heskett writes: >> >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it >>> do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of >>> the accessing client as long as the client can

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it > > do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of > > the accessing client as long as the client can handle the https > >

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

2017-04-29 Thread Felix Dietrich
Gene Heskett writes: > Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it do > an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of the > accessing client as long as the client can handle the https stuff this > conversion will return to the client? For the apach