Junction Troubleshooting

A couple of year ago – I wrote a post about handling SSL Junctions being marked as unavailable.  The fix I did then was to disable Client Cert Auth on the back-end.  Since then – I’ve come across a couple more issues and have some better solutions and more understanding of the issue. For the …

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Username Mapping for Client Certificates

I recently had a chance to migrate a basic Client Certificate environment from TAM 6.1.1 to ISAM 9.0.1.0.  If you haven’t looked at Client Certificate mapping – my colleague Phil Nye has a great primer. However – when I checked out the documentation – the Client Certificate mapping page states it is due to be deprecated …

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Junction always marked as “not available”

Ran into an interesting challenge this week.  Created an SSL Junction to a server.  Had the usual warning about untrusted SSL appear – so I added the public key into the pdsrv keystore and that message disappeared.  But the junction was still marked as down.  And no-matter what I did – the junction would stay …

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Django Errors with Dreamhost

I was just setting up a Django environment on Dreamhost – and couldn’t work out what was going on.  Every time I tried to reach the admin page – I got an Internal Server Error 500 message.  Not very helpful. First step was to check the Apache Error log.  From my home directory it was:  …

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