Ryan Lindsey ryanlindsey

Secure private web server with NodeJS

This article will explain how to set up a secure web server with NodeJS which only accepts connection from users with SSL certificates that you have signed. This is an efficient way to ensure that no other people are able to access the web server, without building a login system which will be significantly weaker.

I will not explain how to create a certificate authority (CA), create certificates or sign them. If you need to read up on this, have a look at this excelent article on how to do it with OpenSSL (Mac and Linux): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSSL#Practical_OpenSSL_Usage It is also possible to do this on a Mac with the keychain application, and I assume it is possible on a Windows machine aswell.

This architecture will allow you to have one web server communicating with an array of trusted clients, the web server itself can be on the public internet, that will not decrease the level of security, but it will only ser

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

	<!doctype html>

	<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>iOS 8 web app</title>

	<!-- CONFIGURATION -->

	## If you are using under a rails project,
	## I recommend to put this script onto config/initializer instead of applying the patch

	module Compass::SassExtensions::Functions::GradientSupport

	class ColorStop < Sass::Script::Literal

	def initialize(color, stop = nil)
	self.options = {}
	if color.is_a?(Sass::Script::String) && color.value == 'transparent'

	AddDefaultCharSet utf-8
	DefaultLanguage en-US

	# Activate rewrite engine
	Options +FollowSymLinks
	RewriteEngine on

	# Redirect to wwww
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

	# Remove index.php from CodeIgniter application
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php\|css\|js\|images\|robots\.txt)
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	from datetime import datetime
	import sublime_plugin


	class TimestampCommand(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
	"""Expand `isoD`, `now`, `datetime`, `utcnow`, `utcdatetime`,
	`date` and `time`
	"""

	56k: "https://123.campfirenow.com/images/56k.gif"
	bell: ":bell:"
	bezos: ":laughing::thought_balloon:"
	bueller: "anyone?"
	butts: ":open_hands: :smoking:"
	clowntown: "https://123.campfirenow.com/images/clowntown.gif"
	cottoneyejoe: ":notes::hear_no_evil::notes:"
	crickets: "hears crickets chirping"
	dadgummit: "dad gummit!! :fishing_pole_and_fish:"
	dangerzone: "https://123.campfirenow.com/images/dangerzone.png"

	source "http://rubygems.org"
	group :development do
	gem 'rake'
	gem 'guard'
	gem 'coffee-script'
	gem 'rb-fsevent'
	gem 'rb-inotify'
	gem 'compass', '0.11.5'
	gem 'sass', '3.1.5'
	gem 'guard-compass'

	# Want to show hidden files and folders in your TextMate project drawer? Simple, just modify the file and folder patterns in TextMate's preferences.

	# Instructions:
	# Go to TextMate > Preferences...
	# Click Advanced
	# Select Folder References

	# Replace the following:

	# File Pattern

Ryan Lindsey ryanlindsey

Secure private web server with NodeJS

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

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