DougieWougie

Supporting the third sector with their technology challenges

A passion for solving problems

  • Resettlement

    Everyone’s experience of leaving the Forces is different. For me it would have been better called “upheaval” than resettlement. Four months after assignment to 1 UK Civ Div, and the first leave I’ve had this year, I had time to make some observations.

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  • Self-hosted Bitwarden

    Plesk Obsidian (18.0.54) with Docker extension (1.6.1-265). Vaultwarden Server (vaultwarden/server) image:

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  • Renew SSL certificate in Plesk with IONOS

    Log in to IONOS – you need three files:

    • private key (.key)
    • certificate (.cer)
    • intermediate certificate (_INTERMEDIATE.cer)

    If you don’t have the private key, Revoke Old Certificate, then Reissue Certificate – on Firefox this is a bit weird but it’ll download the key file but until you open it won’t complete the reissue.

    In Plesk go to Websites & Domains > SSL/TLS Certificates > Advanced Settings > Add SSL/TLS Certificate.

    Enter a certificate name:

    Scroll to “Upload the certificate files”:

    Browse each file (it doesn’t matter that they’re cer rather than crt), use _INTERMEDIATE.cer for the CA certificate, then click Upload Certificate.