Archive for 'Linux'
fcgi and mod_fcgid on CentOS4
Posted on09. Mar, 2008 by Ash Christopher.
I decided recently that I wanted to be able to run Ruby on Rails applications from my webserver. For those who don’t know me, RPM database integrity is a huge issue for me (I do not just install from source on my server!).
Since I had some time this weekend, I decided it was about time [...]
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Running Subversion From xinetd
Posted on29. Nov, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
Now that we have Subversion installed on our server, we really need some way to have it always available. We could run subversion in daemon mode but we would have to write init.d scripts which can get rather complex (especially if you are writing one properly, and not just hacking one together).
Instead, we will add [...]
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Setting Up Subversion On Fedora 8
Posted on28. Nov, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
After fighting with the corporate firewall (ssh tunnels were not successfully able to navigate to a SVN repo on a shared host) I decided I should set subversion up on my home server. Since I am a little paranoid about throwing caution to the wind with regard to server changes, I decided to set it [...]
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SMARTHOST Authentication With Sendmail
Posted on18. May, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
Rogers, one of Canada’s biggest ISP’s has this nasty habit of making life difficult for it’s customers. First they throttle BitTorrent traffic, and now in an attempt to curb spam, they block all outbound connections from port 25.
While this may not seem like a huge deal to most users, what this means is that you [...]
