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Thanks to Elizabeth and Jimmy and Moises and Cathie for a great party!  Pictures are here.

Merry Christmas! Pictures are here.

The tree is up!

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun.  We had 20 people here at our house.  Check out the pictures.

First Baptist Church of Pompano Beach had our 2008 picnic yesterday at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach.  Check out the pictures.

Congratulations to our good friends Dan Cohen and Lauren Taub!  They were married October 12 in Lincon, Massachusetts.

After enabling SSL on a couple of apps, I got an email from one of my cron jobs telling me my SOAP API was no longer working.  (This is why you always want to have an entry in /etc/aliases forwarding root’s email to an account you will read)

The error message was “unable to get local issuer certificate.”  I thought, no big deal, there must be an easy way to get SOAP4R to find all the root CA certificates.  Unfortunately it took a while searching Google to find the right answer, so I’m posting it here to make it easier for the next person (which just might be me next week).

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Tonight I decided to set up SSL on two internal web apps I’ve been running for a while. I have a wildcard certificate *.stockpr.com just for this purpose. Each app was originally running on a separate hostname on a single IP address on port 80.

After I started setting up SSL, I realized that I might run into trouble because Apache has always said you can’t combine NameVirtualHost and SSL. The reason for this is that the SSL session is established before the HTTP headers are sent. Since NameVirtualHost relies on the HTTP Host header, which is unavailable since it hasn’t yet been sent at the time SSL is being negotiated, Apache can only use a single SSL cert per combination of IP and port.
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