Proxy Settings pushed by GPO not applying to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9

I support a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain, until today only Windows XP clients and Internet Explorer 8. We use a proxy server to filter and monitor the internet and we push the configuration for that proxy server via Group Policy. Our current GPO works perfectly with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 8. Today we … Read more

How to upgrade Gitlab 5.1 to 5.2 on CentOS 6 or RHEL6

Last modified: [last-modified] This document assumes you’ve followed my previous postĀ for deploying Gitlab on CentOS 6/RHEL6 and have already upgraded that deployment from 5.0 to 5.1. If you haven’t already switched from the default version (1.7.1) of git that comes with CentOS 6 / RHEL6 to git 1.8.2.3 please follow this post first before continuing … Read more

Commit comments not appearing in Gitlab on CentOS

Last modified: [last-modified] If you followed my earlier documentation, or simply installed Gitlab yourself on CentOS 6 you might run into this problem: When you go to the ‘Files’ view of one of your repositories it won’t load any of the commit comments. It just appears to perpetually load. If you look in your ‘production.log’ … Read more

How to configure Mediawiki to authenticate against Active Directory on CentOS

Last modified: [last-modified] This assumes you’ve got a working install of MediaWiki already and just need to tie it into Active Directory. 1. Make sure php-ldap is installed yum install php-ldap.x86_64 2. Configure OpenLDAP on CentOS to ignore your domain controllers certificate validity. We all trust our own domain controllers don’t we? vim /etc/openldap/ldap.conf # … Read more