What Are You Doing Right Now
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Lunch seminar with Softchoice.
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Reading about how to issue a certificate from my AD CA to my Dokuwiki test.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading about how to issue a certificate from my AD CA to my Dokuwiki test.
Why do you want to do that?
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@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Interesting. Have you taken a look at Let's Encrypt? It would be more reliable then your CA and can be easily automated.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Why? Sounds like sunk cost. No value to using that.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Interesting. Have you taken a look at Let's Encrypt? It would be more reliable then your CA and can be easily automated.
I've considered it, and might end up going that route when my little internal wiki goes into production. This is also a learning exercise for me (using my own CA).
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Interesting. Have you taken a look at Let's Encrypt? It would be more reliable then your CA and can be easily automated.
I've considered it, and might end up going that route when my little internal wiki goes into production. This is also a learning exercise for me (using my own CA).
Wasted time. Why would you ever use your own CA?
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Better to use the effort to learn good prioritization
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@scottalanmiller For me, no learning is wasted. We deployed a CA a couple of years ago to use certificates for part of the authentication for our LT2P/IPSEC vpn.
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Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
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All learning comes with a cost of lost opportunity. Learning something useless or nearly so instead of something good is in relative terms negative learning.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
Mediawiki requires the full LAMP stack. I believe that DokuWiki requires just LAP. We use Confluence for much of our documentation.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
So the question becomes should I learn it? It sounds like I should.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
Hah, MediaWiki is what we just moved off of. Been using it for YEARS, just got so sick of it.
Now using Wordpress with a wiki theme and a few extremely useful plugins, such as WYSIWYG, copy/paste in pictures directly in to editor, lightbox, ToC, and some others that make wikitizing extremely easy, fast, convenient, and over all good experience.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
Mediawiki requires the full LAMP stack. I believe that DokuWiki requires just LAP. We use Confluence for much of our documentation.
Correct.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
So the question becomes should I learn it? It sounds like I should.
Meh. Note what I just said about the cost of lost opportunity in learning.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
So the question becomes should I learn it? It sounds like I should.
In that you should learn the LAMP stack yes. But you could do the same with a few other tools. I like @Tim_G's suggestion of Wordpress with a wiki plugin.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
So the question becomes should I learn it? It sounds like I should.
In that you should learn the LAMP stack yes. But you could do the same with a few other tools. I like @Tim_G's suggestion of Wordpress with a wiki plugin.
Also, definitely worth looking at an addon called TablePress. Turn your ugly and time-consuming mediawiki table into something real... searchable, manageable. Like if you have a server list with associated info in a table, copy/paste it to excel, then import it to tablepress. Add to wordpress post and be amazed!
