Zero Inverse

This is a re-post of a blog entry from Rocketwerx

You would think this would be really easy, but it turns out that there’s no clear documentation on how to get MAMP Pro to work with SSL. Here’s the steps I went through that allowed me to get this working and even automatically enabled via the MAMP Pro GUI.

Setting it all up

First things first, you have to tell the MAMP Pro that you want the SSL configuration to start up when you start the servers. For this you have to use a little trick my buddy David Lewis told me about. In the GUI, under the Servers tab, hold down Option when you click the Apache tab. This will display a new hidden checkbox called SSL, now you can just enable this checkbox and it will trigger the SSL “If” blocks in the apache config.

Next, you need to switch your MAMP to use the regular HTTP port. By default the port under Server / General is configured with the default port of 8888. This needs to be a port under 1024, eg 80, for MAMP to run under a privileged account so the default SSL port of 443 can properly bind. Once you have these GUI changes made, it’s time to get down and dirty in the terminal.

Fire up your terminal of choice, mine is still iTerm even though the Terminal in leopard is much improved. Now you will need to navigate to MAMP’s apache configuration directory and make a couple of directories for your SSL certificate and key:

Now your going to have to create a temporary testing SSL certificate:

My openssl configuration required me to put in a passphrase during this process, but I didn’t want to have to enter that manually from the terminal everytime, so I removed the passphrase with this command:

The existing MAMP ssl.conf file already points to these files so we are all good there, the last step I had to do was to update my SSL Document Root to point to the site I was testing with SSL. To do that just open up the ssl.conf file:

And then you Edit the DocumentRoot path to point to the location of your site.

That should be it! Just stop and start your servers in the MAMP Pro GUI, and you should be prompted for a username/password. Just enter the data for a priveledged account and your server should start up with both HTTP and HTTPS enabled. Just point your browser to your local mamp install: https://localhost and you should see the default page from your SSL document Root

Possible Issues

The most common problem you are going to have with this procedure is the apache server not starting when you click the start button in the MAMP Pro GUI. There are several reasons this could happen, but the most likely is that you already have something else running that is listening on either port 80 or port 443. If you open up the Console from your Applications / Utilities folder, and look in the Console Messages window you should get a summary of what happened when MAMP tried to start up. An existing application already using a port typically shows up with something along the lines of:

First you should make sure you don’t have Web Sharing enabled in your System Preferences. This enables Leopard’s built in apache which runs on port 80 by default. If you already have that disabled you can track down the application using this port by typing the following command in the terminal:

The port usages will be displayed, and you want to look for the COMMAND that is set to LISTEN on port 80:

In this example the process called httpd is listening on this port already.

UPDATE:

Also, if you are using MAMP, it appears some ROOT CERTIFICATES are not available, causing CURL+PHP+SSL to not work.

Generate your own crt:

1. ) Download: http://www.gknw.net/php/phpscripts/mk-ca-bundle.phps to c:\
2. ) Open cmd and run: c:>php mk-ca-bundle.php
3. ) Output should read: Downloading ‘certdata.txt’ …Done (140 CA certs processed).
4. ) This file should be created: c:\ca-bundle.crt
5. ) Move c:\ca-bundle.crt to php-sdk\src
6. ) In example.php after instantiating the Facebook object,
   add Facebook::$CURL_OPTS[CURLOPT_CAINFO] = ‘path\to\php-sdk\src\ca-bundle.crt’;

Sound doesn’t work correctly by default on Fedora 12 install.

Basically, make sure that

1. blacklist.conf has the blacklist snd-pcsp line enabled (this is needed to disable the default “auto-detected” sound driver.
2. From various sources online, add the correct reference to the “sound driver”

Edit /etc/modrobe.d/* to add options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=dell, then it did. Not sure why auto mode doesn’t work.

I added it to my LOCAL.CONF file.
Also, make sure PULSEAUDIO is installed to get access to the SOUND VOLUME CONTROL.

Some references where I found this info.

http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2008/09/17/dell-inspiron-mini-9-first-thoughts/
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206491

After some websurfing, finally found how to change my Dell Mini 9 resolution.

The normal 1024×600 screen resolution is hard to do much development work on.

With Fedora 12, editting the XORG.CONF file does not seem to work.  Instead, you have to use XRANDR.

In my case, use

xrandr –fb 1600×1000 –output LVDS1 –panning 1600×1000 –scale 1×1

Voila!  Mouse will allow me to pan & move around my larger virtual screen size.

If you want your display to be configured when you “login” to Fedora, add the above line into your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc configuration file.
This file is run at user login.

For those that don’t know, Dell has a mini netbook that I picked up for $300.
Nice and compact.

Only problem is Fedora Linux does not work well with it included BCM wireless card.
Since I had a spare wireless card IWL4965 (from my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop), I went ahead and popped that in.

And now, voila! I have Fedora 12 running with wireless card access.

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/559001567931

Building iPhone apps is no small feat.  You have to be a good C/C++ programmer, you have to learn the Objective-C programming method, then learn the Cocoa frameworks.

But it’s great that a lot of people have created sample code and examples that showcase functionality.

Finally restarted my blog started.  Lots to share, just haven’t had the time to write.

Updates coming soon!

Last year Andreas Weigend taught Stats 252 at Stanford and shared the following list of opposing characteristics of data communication:

It’s always interesting to see the different startup companies focusing on different aspects of data.

There’s more to this list, so make a comment and add to this list.

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