Nate's Programming Blog

Well I finally got all my hosting problems resolved. First 2 of my domains expired unexpectedly. Well, I should have been paying more attention, but I went to my blog a couple of weeks ago and got a message saying that I needed to renew. Then I went through the painful process of trying to […]

It has been a few months since my Triumphant Return post. I just wanted everyone to know that I’m still using Gentoo and loving it. I just recently (finally) got printing working. It was not an easy task, but I got it. I got CUPS working as well so I can connect to my printer […]

Welcome to the triumphant return of natesprogramming.com, gavinstravels.com and soon to be stlhealthylife.com. It has been a long and painful, but very enlightening experience getting these sites back up. For those of you who haven’t had status updates throughout this process I’ll break down why the sites have been down so long and the steps […]

Well it’s 2:30 am and I just painfully relearned how to create self-signed certificates using OpenSSL. Therefore, in order to prevent another long night of having to learn this again, I’m going to post the instructions I wrote. To create the signed certificate request, execute this command: openssl req –new –out server.csr –config openssl.conf (The […]

I think I finally have my server back to the point it was at when I was in Springfield. The last piece that I needed to setup was the smtp server. It took me most the night, but I think I have it up and functioning. I’m using an smtp server from a company called […]

This will be my first post on natesprogramming.com. I wanted to wait until I had everything setup before I started posting. I’ve spent the last week off and on trying to get SSL working on the login page for WordPress. It took me almost a whole day to try and figure out how to get […]