Entries Categorized as 'Internet'

Astaro 7.x: HTTPS DNAT to Internal Server Fails

Date December 8, 2008

Problem:  Had a DNAT setup in Astaro to reroute the external IP (DNS resolution) of my OWA server to it’s internal address.  However, it would time out every time.  Port 80 and other traffic worked fine, it seemed to be only an issue with https (443).
Solution:  Had to do a full NAT for this and [...]

Astaro Installation Failed

Date October 2, 2008

Problem: When trying to install Astaro Security Gateway software, ver 7.3, on a Gateway 9232T server.   The system boots off the CD just fine and detects all the hardware but seems to time-out during the “verifying checksums” portion of the installation and I then get the error message below:
Installation Failed: Please remove CD-ROM and restart [...]

Error 500: WordPress Blog and Windows Live Writer

Date October 1, 2008

Problem:  When trying to publish to a WordPress Blog, I get the following error:
The server reported an error with the following URL:
http://www.domain.com/xmlrpc.php
500 Internal Server Error
I looked around the Internet and saw that it was related to uploading pictures.  Not very much out there regarding this issue.  One suggestion was to take out any extra blank [...]

Making Shortcuts With Google Chrome

Date September 12, 2008

This past week, there as been a lot of talk about Google’s new browser Chrome.   It’s definitely not a Firefox or IE killer but I don’t think it’s meant to be.  My thoughts are that Google didn’t like how their apps performed within IE and Firefox and therefore introduced Chrome as a blueprint for [...]

OWA and Firefox

Date June 12, 2008

Problem:  Ever since we moved to Outlook Web Access (OWA), I have had some complaints from users saying that it basically sucks in Firefox.    Since FireFox doesn’t support the ActiveX components of OWA, you have to login in basic mode which pretty much takes away all the cool features of OWA.  The only thing that [...]