Certificate Renwal under cloudflare
When the 90day cpanel certificate would expire was getting this message from autossl: DNS DCV: No local authority: “askitops.com”; HTTP DCV: “Sectigo” forbids DCV HTTP redirections. This was coming out of Sectigo validation. Did some searches discussing what to do – this document had me disabling cloudflare to renew the certificate https://community.cloudflare.com/t/installing-cloudflare-origin-ssl-in-cpanel-which-is-the-right-method/397424 or disable ssl…
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Converting the site to test using cloudlflare free program. I am mainly researching what would be needed for clients. Since this a wordpress document I found this blog to help on the details https://themeisle.com/blog/cloudflare-for-wordpress-tutorial/#:~:text=How%20to%20set%20up%20Cloudflare%20for%20WordPress%201,5.%20Verify%20that%20your%20connection%20is%20complete%20 After setting up your cloudflare account – convert your DNS from your current provider to Cloudflare. Cloudflare will query your current…
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Oracle patching can be an adventure (to say the least). One of the harder items I found was just where to get the appropriate patch to apply. I’m noting some places to look in Oracle support to find what is current Database Which Patch’s are available?MOS notes about patches, patch sets, PSU, SRU and bundle…
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I’ve been working with OCI (Oracle Cloud infrastructure) the past few months. Oracle has its own cloud environment a competitor to Azure and AWS. One of its offerings is IAAS (Infrastructure as a service). This allows you to define your own virtual machines to support Oracle databases and applications. Oracle provides many server templates, which…
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Yes, while Oracle 19c is supported on RHEL 8 now, please now that only Oracle 19.6.0.0.0 (JAN2020 DBRU – Patch 30557433) or later applied as well. $ export CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OL7$ <19c OH>/runInstaller -applyRUInstallation on red-hat 8 worked, there are some issues1 Like you said, the base release does not recognize red-hat8, so we still have to…
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I can’t always remember the MOS notes for certifications and I’m frequently asked Can I use X version of Oracle with Y version OS. So here it is: MOS Note 1304727.1
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A place to record tips, tricks and frequently asked questions for our Itops clients.
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