Apache: SSL with Virtual Hosts Using SNI
With SNI, you can have many virtual hosts with HTTPS sharing the same IP address and port, and each one can have its own unique certificate. SNI is supported by all major browsers except Internet Explorer on XP, Safari on XP, wget, Android and Java.
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Using Passenger for development (with optional SSL)
- install apache
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-devsudo gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-module- follow the instructions
Manually: configure a vhost in /etc/apache2/sites-available and link it to `/etc/apache2/s...
Using Thin for development (with SSL)
Note: These instructions are for a quick per-project setup and may require you to change code. If you generally need SSL for development, you probably want to use [Passenger](https://makandracards.com/makandra/549-using-passenger-for-developme...
Working around OpenSSL::SSL::SSLErrors
If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with older SSL/TLS versions.
You might get an error like: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=unknown state
...
Speed up Capistrano deployments using a remote cached copy of repository
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying to.
Simply add
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :copy_exclude, [ '.git' ]
to your config/deploy.rb and Capistr...
RestClient / Net::HTTP: How to communicate with self-signed or misconfigured HTTPS endpoints
Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like missing an intermediate certificate).
Using RestClient will then raise RestClient::SSLCertificateNotVerified errors, or wh...
How to enable SSL in development with Passenger standalone
Here is how to start your Rails application to accept both HTTP and HTTPS in development.
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gem install passenger -
Create a [self-signed SSL certificate](https://makandracards.com/makandra/15901-howto-create-a-self-signed-certificate...
Heads up: Deployment with newly generated SSH key (using ED25519) might fail
If you use a newer SSH key generated with the ED25519 algorithm instead of RSA (see Create a new SSH key pair), the deployment with Capistrano may fail with the following mes...
Using Apache Benchmark (ab) on sites with authentication
Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (ab) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the site you're about to test is placed behind a login, follow these steps to succes...
Problems with Rails 3 Remote Links and Forms Using jQuery .live() in IE
There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.