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htaccess-examples

I was testing authentication against Active Directory (LDAP) using Apache 2. The following worked for me in a .htaccess file but only after adding:

LDAPVerifyServerCert Off

in the main httpd.conf file. I presume this is related to the server name in the SSL certificate on the Active Directory server.

AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative Off […]

SSL CERT EXPIRE certwatch

Certwatch checks for Apache certificates which are due to expire. By default on Red Hat / Centos there is a cron job in /etc/cron.daily which runs and sends its output to root. To configure it:

vi /etc/sysconfig/httpd

Add a line such as:

CERTWATCH_OPTS=”–period 30 –address test@rmohan.com”

It is also possible to switch it […]