Re: converting my local site to be https only access

From	davidson@freevolt.org
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: converting my local site to be https only access
Date	2017-05-01 02:20 +0200
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:49:04 Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 29 April 2017 14:21:27 Jochen Spieker wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett:
>>>> On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote:
>>>>> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> writes:
>>>>>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to
>>>>>> have it do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff
>>>>>> regardless of the accessing client as long as the client can
>>>>>> handle the https stuff this conversion will return to the
>>>>>> client?
>>>
>>> What you want to do requires that you understand the basics of
>>> Apache's configuration mechanism. You should really start with that.
>>>
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/getting-started.html
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/bind.html
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/configuring.html
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/urlmapping.html
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/vhosts/
>>>
> I don't have 2.4, 2.2 here on wheezy.
>
> Looking in the docs/2.2/envvars reference and trying some of the commands
> I find I apparently must specify the port # somehow. apache2ctl cannot
> connect on port 80.  It apparently uses /etc/alternatives/www-browser,
> which is a softlink to /usrt/bin/lynx, and guess what?
>
> lynx support at lynx.isc.org has been deleted. And it won't work without
> talking to isc.org first.  Even after being re-installed.

Lynx works just fine. I expect your configuration file simply has some
references to obsolete remote locations.

Does this work?

  $ WWW_HOME="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEBKAC" lynx

or this?

  $ WWW_HOME="file://localhost/REPLACE-ME-WITH-A-PATH-TO-SOME-LOCAL-HTML-DOC.html" lynx

And does this...

  $ grep '^STARTFILE:' /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg

...confirm that you have something obsolete like

  STARTFILE:http://lynx.isc.org/

in your lynx.cfg ?

Then fix that broken reference. Edit /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg, replacing
that STARTFILE url with whatever you like.

FWIW, I think

  STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/

makes a sensible default.

Or, if for some incomprehensible reason you think a remote website is
an appropriate default startfile, you could use

   STARTFILE:http://lynx.invisible-island.net/

instead.

While you're at it, you might want to cast your eye over any other
lines returned by this...

  $ grep '^[A-Z_]*:[[:blank:]]*https\?://' /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg

...and see if you wouldn't rather change them to something more
up-to-date, more reliable, or more appropriate for your installation.

> So A: file a bug against lynx, best to remove it as its apparently been
> EOL'd by isc.org

Huh? You would remove a program simply because isc.org removes a
couple web pages?

Development of lynx continues unabated:

  http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx-develop.html

Good luck with your project.

Thread

converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-29 05:40 +0200
  Re: converting my local site to be https only access Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name> - 2017-04-29 10:30 +0200
    Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-29 15:10 +0200
      Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-04-29 20:30 +0200
        Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-29 20:50 +0200
          Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-30 23:10 +0200
            Re: converting my local site to be https only access Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 23:50 +0200
            Re: converting my local site to be https only access Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2017-05-01 00:00 +0200
            Re: converting my local site to be https only access davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-05-01 02:20 +0200
              Re: converting my local site to be https only access Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-05-01 03:00 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 03:40 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-05-01 21:50 +0200
              Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 03:40 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-01 15:30 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 16:10 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 17:20 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-01 19:00 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 21:00 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 21:00 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-05-02 01:40 +0200
                Re: converting my local site to be https only access Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 18:40 +0200
  Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-05-02 12:40 +0200
    Re: converting my local site to be https only access <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-02 13:30 +0200
      Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-05-02 23:20 +0200
        Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-02 23:40 +0200
          Re: converting my local site to be https only access <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0200
            Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-03 14:40 +0200
              Re: converting my local site to be https only access <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 15:30 +0200
    Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-02 22:50 +0200
      Re: converting my local site to be https only access Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-05-02 23:20 +0200
        Re: converting my local site to be https only access Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-05-02 23:50 +0200

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