Re: [users@httpd] How to restart apache after reboot on ubuntu 16.04?

2016-08-17 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/17/16 4:12 PM, Dr James Smith wrote: > It may be possible to write your own auto-renewal script > relatively easily for LetsEncrypt. I have done for Apache as (a) I > don't use the standard paths and setup, (b) I wish to use HPKP on > my

Re: [users@httpd] How to restart apache after reboot on ubuntu 16.04?

2016-08-17 Thread Dr James Smith
It may be possible to write your own auto-renewal script relatively easily for LetsEncrypt. I have done for Apache as (a) I don't use the standard paths and setup, (b) I wish to use HPKP on my servers for additional security and "Lets Encrypt" auto scripts generate a new key each time which

Re: [users@httpd] How to restart apache after reboot on ubuntu 16.04?

2016-08-17 Thread R
It seemed like the auto-renewal process for ssl from LetsEncrypt is not supported yet for nginx, at least according to this article on its publication date: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04 My needs are really simple and I

[users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer and multiple balancer configurations

2016-08-17 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; we use an apache2.4 and mod_proxy_balancer in front of various backend systems that aren't per se able to deal with load balancers in front of them so we use the approach outlined in [1] and mod_headers to set a ROUTEID cookie. What so far I was unable to figure out: How does this setup

Re: [users@httpd] How to restart apache after reboot on ubuntu 16.04?

2016-08-17 Thread Dr James Smith
Depends on your backends - nginx is good if it is serving primarily static files and or proxying back to quick responding backends. It seems to be less well suited to slower/heavier backends. Apache always seems to work - slower mind you - but always seems to work... So if reliability is your

Re: [users@httpd] How to restart apache after reboot on ubuntu 16.04?

2016-08-17 Thread Erik Dobák
why did not you use nginx anyway? should be faster and modern. did not have the chance to try that yet myself. still using apache everywhere. On 17 August 2016 at 03:18, R wrote: > Ugh sorry, I had a test installation of nginx on the machine, which was not > fully