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After I was making changes to my Confluence instance to enable SSL yesterday I was trying to document my work on our wiki.

When creating a page I’d click “Create” then select the template and set the title. Next, clicking create to start the new page action would start a download of a file called “draft-createpage.action”

One of the steps of configuring SSL is to set the new base URL to include the HTTPS port. I’d done that, including the new port but hadn’t changed the http to https. Making that change fixed the problem instantly! 🙂

This documentation takes into account the extra steps required for installing a certificate and chain issued by a Windows CA when configuring Atlassian Confluence for SSL/HTTPS. This is basically a replacement for Step #1 in the aforementioned link.

In this example “$Confluence$>” is the Confluence install directory. I keep the .keystore file in this directory for my own tracking purposes.

1. Create the CSR on the Confluence server $Confluence$>jre\bin\keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -file certreq.csr -keystore .keystore

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A dark side fireplace

As usual, when I go looking for something and it takes a while to find, I like to document it here as well. I found some information in this thread “Boot into the GUI after changing default user{.question-hyperlink}” in the Raspberry Pi StackExchange, but I had to modify it quite a lot (including the original post) to reflect the full changes required.

You can manually modify the raspi-config script as follows. Let’s presume we’re using the username “bob”.

Toshiba T130, wireless decided not to play any more. I first thought it was the terrible Toshiba software which for some reason is used to enable and disable the hardware devices themselves. I guess it’s from ~2009 when wireless devices like Bluetooth and 802.11N took a lot of power, but really? Why not just utilise the OS?

I found there was a couple of possible issues with it.

Hardware

The issue we were having with this laptop was that the wireless adaptor was periodically not showing up, then it disappeared entirely (even after reboots, and a variety of things)