March 2012

IPSEC VPN Between Amazon VPCs

This is the world’s only existing simple example of an Openswan / Libreswan VPN between two Amazon EC2 VPCs. At least it seems that way after many fruitless searches today. We recently needed to link a client’s two VPCs together using a VPN and decided to use Libreswan instead of OpenVPN. Since there’s a dearth […]

Magento: Remove Search Results From Search Engines

Having your site’s search results indexed is a bad SEO practice. Here’s another simple Magento fix that I didn’t find clearly documented elsewhere. In fact, I found broken plugins that purport to accomplish this for you. In your local.xml, simply add the following to your section: NOINDEX,FOLLOW NOINDEX,FOLLOW