April 2019 - Uncannier Software

Enabling HTTPS & SSL Using Let’s Encrypt & Certbot

Uncannier Software / April 22, 2019

In this post I’ll show you how to add HTTPS/SSL to an existing website that uses Apache HTTP Server. I’ll generate a free SSL/TLS certificate using Let’s Encrypt, specifically the Certbot ACME Client. Additionally, we’ll cover: how to enable automatic renewal of SSL/TLS certificates. how to setup re-writes in Apache such that all HTTP requests …

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Tomcat in AWS – Part 4 – Install MariaDB / MySQL

Uncannier Software / April 17, 2019

In this article we add MariaDB (MySQL) to our Tomcat Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server in AWS EC2. I cover the basics of how to integrate it with your Tomcat web applications. If you’ve been playing along at home, you know this is part 4 of a series that started here. Installation Installing MariaDB in Ubuntu …

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Tomcat in AWS – Part 3 – Installation and Security Hardening

Uncannier Software / April 14, 2019

This article is part 3 of a series that started here. In this post we get down to the business of actually installing Tomcat into the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS AWS EC2 instance created in earlier posts. I go in to some detail on how to secure your Tomcat installation. Installation We start by installing Java …

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Tomcat in AWS – Part 2 – Apache Web Server

Uncannier Software / April 10, 2019

In this article I cover how to install Apache HTTP Server into Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This article is part 2 of a series on how to create a Tomcat server in AWS. In part 1 we created an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server in AWS EC2. We now add Apache HTTP Server as a front-end for …

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Tomcat in AWS – Part 1 – EC2 Base AMI

Uncannier Software / April 7, 2019

This article is the start of a series covering how to create a Tomcat server in AWS EC2. I recently went through the process of migrating a Java web application to a Tomcat server in Amazon Web Services. It wasn’t diabolically difficult, but it was long and involved. In sharing this series, I hope to …

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