Solving tech problems

Creating virtual host aliases under Apache

System Administration

Sometimes you want to create folder alias for your website like this: /images to be mapped to /home/your_account/public_html/images. To do this, you need to edit Apache httpd.conf file which is located at /etc/httpd/conf It is clever to put all aliases in one file in the same directory and name them aliases.conf and then only to reference this file from httpd.conf. You will include aliases.conf in httpd.conf like this: <IfModule mod_alias.c>     Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/alias </IfModule> You define alias in aliases.conf file like this: Alias /images /home/your_account/public_html/images <Directory “/home/your_account/public_html/images”>     Options Indexes…read more

Re-keying and Re-issuing MultiSAN SSL certificate in CPanel

System Administration

I have lost 6 hours of my time when I was trying to add new MultiSAN SSL on server. We already used one and we just added one new SAN placeholder for one subdomain. Server: CentOS Linux + CPanel Entered new SAN, using saved CSR and Re-issued the SSL certificate Went to https://panel.mydomain.com > SSL/TLS Manager and added the new SSL under SSL/TLS Manager > Certificates (CRT) > Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates. Nothing helped because when I visited https://subdomain.mydomain.com it said that it is using old SSL…read more

You can not outsmart the banks and insurance companies

Banking and Finance

In last 7 years inflation in Slovenia is bellow 3% (chart is from national statistical office) If you have life insurance at insurance company Generali then they will rise each year the amount you need to pay each month for at least 3%, no matter if costs of living per year raised only 0,2% (as it was in 2014). They have insured themselves as insurance company so their profit from this part will be 15 times more then it should be. Conclusion: better trust in your own abilities to turn…read more

Trello is a great tool

Products and Services, Thoughts

Trello.com is nicely done, efficient and very clear task management tool. You can use it for managing your weekly plans/tasks and you can create multiple boards and then moving task from the left to the right. For example, you can have three simple boards: What need to be done What is done and in testing phase What is finished, tested and published It is even efficient to follow Scrum methodology in a simple way – nice for small teams and their collaboration. We really like it and use it on…read more

Statistics about successful and brilliant people

Thoughts

If we look at any country or certain population we will see that there is always about 4% of extraordinary and brilliant people (experts in their field). This can be a big problem for smaller countries/populations. When we have a large pool of people (i.e. bigger country), or if there is a lot of people concentrated on a small place (like New York) then you have more probability to meet one of these. Usually, there will be also larger companies there, that are managed by one of these extraordinary people…read more

Long live and prosper Mr. Spock

Thoughts

Farewell, Mr. Spock, you will be missed. The circumstances are logical, but again, we humans are emotional beings. Hope that there is still something behind this mortal life and that you will continue to long live and prosper in another dimension. Or, some new Genesis project. (credits to Dave Daring on DeviantArt.com)

Who is spreading the snow panic?

Thoughts

Heavy snow is coming, be aware of cataclysmic snow storm, you have been warned! I really do not understand what is it with media today that they don’t have nothing better to cover then  a few snowflakes. Who is behind this artificial panic attack? If you know, please post here as comment. They just announced which schools and kindergartens will be closed (I even got an SMS from my child’s kindergarten). Brrrrr – it will be tough – take precaution measures and don’t think, just listen! Don’t see any snowflakes…read more

Cannot resolve %windir%

System Administration

I faced once strange problem that somehow system environment variable %windir% could not be resolved. This means that all shortcuts that are pointing to C:\Windows\System32 will not work. You will not be able to set it directly by clicking with right mouse button on Computer icon and you will get this message To solve this just open this directly from Start > Run… and set this environment variable c:\Windows\System32\systempropertiesadvanced.exe In my case %windir% was pointing to undefined %SystemRoot% so I just added it and make it point to C:\Windows This…read more