CentOS Root Certificate Authority Failures

Oh CentOS why you so annoying! I love you and hate you all at the same time!

When trying to add the shiny Github RSS feed on the right of the page I came up with CS errors that WordPress could not validate the SSL CA. This happens because CentOS had an old certificate authority bundle: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

I found a blog post from last year here and made sense for my position!

Backup your existing file just so you don’t kill any kittens:

cp /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt /root/kitten-basket

Then use magic to get the new one, I used the one found in the other blog post referenced above.

curl http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem -o /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

I restarted apache (not sure if I needed to but made sense!) and yippee it works!

A very Merry Christmas to all

Just wanted to wish anyone who does actually stop by here a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

PHP Mcrypt on CentOS 6

Yay, CentOS 6 still doesn’t by default include mcrypt in it’s distribution on repositories.

There is hope, EPEL to the rescue again:

rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
yum update

You should see EPEL listed as the repos, then:

yum install php-mcrypt

Done.

**Please note the above download is for CentOS 6 x86_64**

Skipping characters whilst using nano over SSH from OS X Lion 10.7

Ever since upgrading to OSX Lion 10.7 I’ve been pulling my hair out. I spend a fair bit of time connected via SSH to remote servers using Terminal, ever since the upgrade when using Nano on a remote server I would get skipped characters and all sorts of wacky behaviour.

There is a fix!

Sneakily Apple changed the default way in which Terminal presents itself to remote servers, but you can go back!

Open Terminal and go to the Preferences (CMD+,) Hit Advanced and under emulation change “Declare terminal as” to xterm-color instead of xterm256-color.

Job Done