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Thursday, June 18 2009
By Eric Maziade on Thursday, June 18 2009, 14:16
You can find the plugin on its own page.
Monday, April 6 2009
By Eric Maziade on Monday, April 6 2009, 23:50
Many thanks to David Saba for the bug reports, investigation and translation!
You can find the plugin on its own page.
Tuesday, November 21 2006
By Eric Maziade on Tuesday, November 21 2006, 12:31
Reading about the new features in MySQL 5.x go me really excited about upgrading.
See, we're running 4.1 on our production servers. Being a careful person, I decided to fit one of our dev machines with MySQL 5.0 to see how the switch would go.
Tuesday, June 21 2005
By Eric Maziade on Tuesday, June 21 2005, 13:45
My next task was to set up an ftp server. vsftpd (very secure ftp daemon) was suggested to me, which sounded cool.
But I didn't understand fast enough how to configure it.
My local webmin setup talked about proftpd. So I say - hey, if I can get a somewhat more comprehensive configuration UI, that's what I'll do.
Turns out its configuration is pretty similar to vsftpd. Which make some kind of sense, since they both do the same thing.
I figured out how to make proftpd's authentication mechanism work with mysql (a nice user table which will enable me to make a nice end-user configuration interface later on).
And I also learned about .ftpaccess files. Which are a neat new thing to me.
See, I could - with a few simple lines of configuration script - give simple ftp access to an end-user and not allow them to see or modify any files I don't want them to (such as php code, for instance).
Yay!
This kinda stuff makes me happy.
Monday, June 20 2005
By Eric Maziade on Monday, June 20 2005, 03:41
If you're here, its because you know here exists.
And it you know here exists, you know that here has been down for a few days (or is it weeks already?)
Reason for this is that I was tring to move inthemaze.net from its current provider to my company's webserver.
And that involved a few things, that are usually quite simple:
Simple, right? I done that quite a few times. Should be easy.
Well, I didn't expect it to be too easy. And that was the reason I tried it with inthemaze.net first.
See, this time, the web admin is 100% me. That means that I have to make the entries into my own DNS server. Which means I have to figure out how this DNS stuff really works.
I first had to figure out that I has to run my own DNS. Just the figuring out what I had to do part was already something.
I've been told I had to let my registrar know I was running my own DNS. Fine.
So I've had to mix up in the whole CNAME, NS, A mess. Quite a buzz. Not sure if I got this all right.
I'm sparing you my agonizing pain at testing this thing out. Turns out I had it OK the first time around but I somehow had to restart my name server for it to see all the nice changes I had made. Maybe it was caching or something, I don't know.
Let's just say I figured out how to make BIND behave how I want it to (for now) and how to make httpd behave like I want it too.
Now I have to figure out how to structure this so it makes sense.... eventually, I'll get an experienced someone to set it up so it runs efficiently too.
For now, the server doesn't see too much traffic. But I prefer to plan ahead...
Let's just say I'm glad to be back up.
(Now to figure out these MX entries...)
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