Matt, setting up ssl with apache is no big deal. Most mainstream distributions offer detailed documentation on how to do that, with ready precompiled packages. You do not have to use a different OS or a different server.
If you are using either a redhat/fedora/centos flavor or a debian flavor, enabling ssl with apache should be relatively straightforward. I do not mean that enabling it with other distributions is particularly difficult, but with the one I mentioned is really simple, just install the relavant packages and enable the ssl engine configuration file that comes with them. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:26 PM, MattDale <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using windows/django1.4/apache2.2 for a couple intranet apps and > it has been working well. I recently had our admin open up a port in our > firewall to deploy another app publicly. We weren't using the app and there > were issues when testing, since both the admin and myself are newbies to > deploying publicly with Apache with SSL. So we left the server as is and > tested UX for this app on an external host. We installed a new system wide > firewall last week which the admin thought would help with our issues so I > went to do some server prep today to bring the app on an internal server > again. > > A check of the access logs found a specific external IP address hitting > the server every 1/4 second with strange URLs that look to be commonly used > php urls since June 7,2013. It has been getting hit for DAYs and I just > wasn't monitoring the server. Each of the requests either 302'd or 404'd > and there are thousands of them. I stopped the server, and sent an email > to the admin to close that port down. > > Since neither I nor the system admin know much about deploying, is there > anywhere I can look to hire someone to help get this app deployed safely? > Our policies require SSL and we are willing to use other OS or servers, we > just need someone who knows what they are doing. > > We are in the NYC vicinity. > > Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Apostolakis email:[email protected] Web Site: http://nick.oncrete.gr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
