Tag: puppet

Gracefully handling non-existent pages in any web presentation is usually a desired course of action. A bare-bones default "404 Not Found" page tells the user enough, but - frankly - does not look that exciting. But is it possible to have a nice multilingual error page while keeping everything tidy in a Puppet configuration like we use?

As most of the servers running actual software are these days virtual machines, in our case running under KVM, having a serial console accessible from the hypervisor is always a good idea in case troubleshooting is needed without network access.

Apache Web Server users can setup HTTP authentication against LDAP by installing and configuring appropritate module. For NGINX users the life can get more complicated when they need such feature. However, there is an easy solution.