by Dean | Jan 13, 2016 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, Networking, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I was talking to someone the other day about the security of My Book It. It is something that I have always tried to build into the program with everything that I do. So far I think that I am doing a pretty good job of the security of the data. But as I was talking...
by Dean | Dec 7, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I have been wanting to change My Book It from a default of HTTP to a default of HTTPS. While doing this I also wanted to ensure that everything kept working for the users to prevent issues. (or at least minimize them). For this to run smoothly I needed to do a number...
by Dean | Sep 27, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I have been looking into SSL certificates for My Book It. When the site was being created, it was decided that My Book It would use sub domains to provide the school with the ability to have their school name at the start of the address. (I think this is a fairly...
by Dean | Sep 11, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IPv6, IT, Linux, Misc, Security
So now that my IPv6 setup is installed and has been working for a few weeks I thought it might be a good idea to go through a few gotcha’s. To be absolutely honest there was only one big one that kinda caused all my issues. (Which is actually kind of...
by Dean | Nov 5, 2014 | General IT, IT, Linux, Security
Steps for setting up public/private key authentication over SSH. Download and run PuttyGen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Click on the Generate button to generate the key set On the server run the following commands ##From Home...
by Dean | Oct 14, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
Now that My Book It is up and running, I have a lot of different things to keep track of. There are backups, maintenance tasks, student counts, invoicing, plus more to keep track of. Most of these systems are automated, they have their time to run and most of the time...