Archive for November 2008
Managing local development websites on your Mac
I recently had my hard drive fail in my MacBook Pro I use for work, which, while a little painful, gave me the opportunity get a fresh, clean install of everything—especially my Apache config files. Like a lot of developers, my Apache config files had been hacked to pieces. This was a great time to […]
Generate a self-signed SSL certificate for local development on a Mac
Generate a host key First, make a home for the new SSL files—I use /etc/apache2/ssl. Open up a terminal window, cd to the new directory and issue the following command to create a host key file. sudo ssh-keygen –f host.key Generate a certificate request file This command will create a certificate request file. A certificate request file […]