Switching…

I had to start someday, and today was as good as any other day. I haven’t had time to tinker with it some more after getting everything to work but I needed to properly write down what I’ve done to get it working. For now the only thing I got is a TXT file which got some copied commands and output in it from my Terminal sessions. Good luck with it and I hope you like it.

By the way, I’ve added a Paypal donation button on the site. This is for people feeling generous and wanted to pitch in. I need a second Mac mini to help me continuing improving this stuff. I’m putting in a lot of time to help you and myself to get this working. Think of the money you save by not having to buy anything else than a Mac mini to become your own provider.

Just finished re-installing the MySQL package from Server Logistics to see if the installation was as easy as I first described. I needed to check all the steps taken and take some screenshots as I progressed through the installation for documentation later on. It was all correct just some minor typos in the documentation from Server Logistics. So I added some documentation to the Setting up MAMP page, but I might change that later on to give every installation it’s own page with full installation description.

I’m very exited, after finally finding a reasonably good and easy to understand document explaining how to create your own CA (certification authorithy) on Mac OSX (workstation not a server) on MacOSXHints.com, I couldn’t resist. I was working on the documentation of my project but it still kept itching. I wanted to get Postfix to use TLS. So I got down and started finding the correct command line to compile with all the options I wanted enabled. It took me quite some time as I found out after a few hours of testing and compiling that my binaries and libraries were not updated. They compiled allright but were not copied in the correct destination directory. When I found this out it was easy. I’ve got it working now, next step, tweaking the configuration parameters and find out what actually is going on so I can write a proper document describing the process to you so you can do it yourself and unerstand what you are doing…

As you might have noticed in the sidebar I’ve started writing the document that should enable you to create your own ISP in a box. The same way I have done it. Your new box will be able to host interactive website with Apache, PHP and MySQL, and function as a full blown secure mailserver for you and anyone you would like to give access. I’ve got hte basc server running on my internal network, the last thing to do is to setup the TLS part of the mail server with certificates to enable secure emailing and SSL access. Read prior post on other things done. The document is still in the early stages but feel free to read and comment on it.