Setup XAMPP Windows as SSL/TLS server

Recently I again needed to check a browser’s SSL capabilities. So, how to setup a test server using it’s own CA? Some time ago I needed to do that previously and found several tutorials, but NONE of them work as written. Now, the same problem again: Find a working tutorial.

This time I sued the one at blog.sortedset.com although the missing images made me nervous. But all over all, the tutorial works with minor changes:

So, I first created a new VirtualBox Windows 6, x64 english test PC (IP address=192.168.0.101). Then downloaded xampp-win32.1.8.1-VC9-installer.exe and installed XAMPP. Next step was to download and install OpenSSL. I used Win32OpenSSL-1_0_1f.exe. Again got a warning about missing VS2008 VC9 runtimes and downloaded and installed that too. Then I followed the tutorial:

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FHEM – extern Daten einspeisen

Seit einiger Zeit betreibe ich einen FHEM server und protokolliere Temperatur, Luftfeuchte, Stromverbrauch und steuere Funkschalter.

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Nun wollte ich unsere langsame Internet-Verbindung protokollieren. Dazu habe ich ein Perl Script geschrieben:

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rdesktopce builds done with LOW_RES ‘marker’

I have added two new build variants to rdesktopce_rdp5 (see also older article).

The normal builds make Windows Mobile ‘think’ the app is HI_RES_AWARE and so QVGA screens (see geometry setting in winrdesktop.ini) are NOT scaled to the larger screens of current devices:

with HI_RES_AWARE and geometry=240×320 on a WXGA screen:

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TP-Link TD-W8961ND DSL router can not access admin web page after 24 hours or so

This is a security feature. If the Admin web page has not been accessed for some time the router disables the access completely. Router does still work, ping is OK, WLAN and WWAN connections are working, you just can not access the admin web page.

As I am running a Linux server I decided to make a hourly cron job that simply accesses the router admion web page every hour. So I can access the admin web all time without the need to cycle it’s power 🙁

I added a cron.hourly bash script to access the admin page every hour:

#!/bin/sh
wget -O - -q -t 1 --user=<adminusername> --password=<yourpassword> http://<yourrouterip>

Replace the user name, password entry and ip with the ones of your router and copy that bash shell script to /etc/cron.hourly. Don’t forget to make it executable (chmod a+x ).

Update: although the above is running the web admin page could not be reached after some days. Odd security mechanism 🙁