The article I did a few weeks ago on customizing the Mac OS X Server Wiki banner seems to have been a little incomplete. I discussed customizing the banner for a full web browser. However, the banner looks differently when viewed from an iPhone. I’ve had a couple of questions about how to customize the banner for iPhone so I figured I’d finish what I started. As I mentioned in the last article, you can simply customize (or replace) the banner-bg.png file located in the /usr/share/collaboration/css/serverhome_static/img directory. This will alter the appearance when viewed from a full web browser. You can also simply edit the following files (same directory) to…
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Customizing the Wiki Banner
One of the best features of Mac OS X Server is the built-in blog and wiki services. While it is not the right solution for every type of environment, it is a very good medium for internally hosted user generated content. Especially if you are using Active Directory or Open Directory. One of the most common requests I get when setting up a blog and wiki server is to customize the portal so that it is branded to the organization that it’s being set up for. One of the easiest ways to do this is to just edit (or more likely replace) the banner-bg.png file located in /usr/share/collaboration/css/serverhome_static/img directory. There are…
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Using OpenSSL to Test Connectivity
When you’re testing connectivity to servers and you’re using SSL on those servers then your traditional ways of testing connectivity may been a little augmentation. For starters, you’re going to use the openssl to test connections. For example, if you have a web server you might traditionally attempt to telnet into port 80 and check you banners; however, if you have an SSL certificate on it then you might be better served connecting to port 443 using the openssl command. In the following example we’ll tell openssl to be a generic client (s_client) and connect (-connect) to https://krypted.com/ over port 443: openssl s_client -connect krypted.com:443 The output would then look…