David Herminghaus - /solved.

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DH — Wed, 17 May 2017 10:38:41 +0000

Sorry, guys!

Too little time, too much spam. Since I hardly manage to review comments at all and spam is still constantly increasing, I had no choice but to disable comments in general.

I will try to find a better solution than total blocking, however, I have to set priorities. Thanks for your understanding!

Bilderblock photo theme

DH — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:36:34 +0000

I had implemented my

Confluence and no end

DH — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:47:20 +0000

Last Thursday, our on-premises Confluence turned out to have died without announcement. No more responses, although the apache wrapper (local proxy) and also the shipped Tomcat itself still ran thoroughly. The log files, although excessively detailed, if not bloated (as with any contemporary Java application stack), did not tell too much, actually they said nothing that gave any hint.

Java

MySQL

A point in|on HTTP basic auth

DH — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:21:57 +0000

The story of HTTP basic auth is actually quite funny. It is definitely the most mature, and probably the most often mistaken authorization, maybe even security approach I know to exist. At least in web terms.

Confluence, Active Directory and SSL: Worked around

DH — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:29:04 +0000

At least in the 5.8.9 on-premises installation of Atlassian’s (otherwise quite handy) Wiki replacement, called Confluence, Windows Domain owners face an issue which at least I would locate somewhere between “strange”, “paranoid overkill” and “counterproductive nagging” although it is most likely but something they have imported with some Java SSL library.

Change JIRA attachment folder path

DH — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:25:48 +0000

As of Atlassian, setting a custom path for attachments in Jira is considered “a potential security risk”, and thus deprecated. This is not about arguing on whether admins without a sane idea of security concepts should be considered in on-premises application concepts at all (which I do not think, as you may guess). Instead, I will assume that you, like me, half-way know what you are doing and thus explain my workaround for this, as I figure, severe issue. (Honestly, just have virtualization clusters and SAN in mind.

LAMP based dynamic DNS over HTTP(s) on premises

DH — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:33:15 +0000

For internal infrastructure tasks, we needed a simple, robust and reliable tool for dynamic DNS updates.

We were not aware of any DDNS provider completely meeting our requirements. Neither did various approaches out in the wild. Also we prefer processing sensitive data on premises anyway. In the end, I decided to refactor a set of legacy tools I once had quickly written (and which soon had become a “persistent interim” for some years).

API

DevOps

Automation

Networks

Freezing a Drupal (6) site

DH — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:05:12 +0000

For many years, I had run a site on Drupal 6. For some reasons, continuing was no option, as was migration (upgrading). By the way I have to thank Drupal 6 for, all in all, forgiving me more than one basic mistake (my first Drupal project ever) and serving pretty stable along some five years. Which is good. Despite this, I am happy that this performance hog now sleeps (almost) for good.