Forcing staff web browsers to use the company proxy is critical for logging and auditing Internet usage and activity. The question is, which method of configuring web browsers to use a proxy is best? When it comes to configuring web browser proxy setting, we have 4 options: Configure the proxy
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This is a repository for IT security related policy documents. AGIX is focused on helping all businesses create and apply effective IT security policies to ensure businesses are not part of the problem of the global insecurity situation but rather they become part of the solution. These documents can be
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There are several ways to configure a web browser to use a proxy. This article focuses on the DNS & WPAD method but we’ll cover other options too. The objective is to force workstations to use a proxy server if and how the business needs depending on where the workstation
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This article explains the process of installing Confluence on your own server and then later migrating your content and settings from the “evaluation” database to something more professional such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. This article is basically an example with sensible assumptions. We’re using CentOS 7. When you first get
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This article explains how to install and configure PostgreSQL for a Confluence on a CentOS 7 server. Read the other Confluence articles on this blog to ensure your web server (if you’re using one) is configured correctly. yum install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib Next you’ll need to do the automatic setup: postgresql-setup
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Bitbucket from Atlasian needs a version of Git above whatever Redhat/CentOS give us. This article explains how to get the right version. You need to download and install Git manually. But don’t worry, it’s simple. You’ll probably already have Git installed. Check by issuing the command that follows. Don’t worry,
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Once the Confluence application is installed and you can log in as the Administrator, you should consider following this document’s steps to ensure the basics are completed. We’re going to cover setting up automatic backups, corrections to the Base URL (if needed), adding a user, configuring email settings and setting
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This article demonstrates how to configure the Confluence “server.xml” file when using Confluence behind an Apache Reverse Proxy on “HTTPS://”. Confluence runs on Tomcat which uses the “server.xml” for its basic settings. The following is a working example of the “server.xml” file when Confluence is running behind a secure (SSL/HTTPS)
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This article demonstrates how to configure an Apache server as a reverse proxy for Confluence. Confluence runs on Tomcat (out of the box) and listens on TCP port 8090 without encryption. Our goal is to listen on port 80 and redirect the connection to port 443 so our reverse proxy
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Suppose you’re investigating moving some computing resources to Amazon’s AWS cloud. You will have several questions such as a) how much will it cost?, b) how do Windows licenses work?, and c) how can staff access those servers? I answers these in a simple way in the example scenario below.
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