Tag: Apache

Safari: don’t give gzipped content a .gz extension

Yesterday, while helping Caloe with the website for her company De Buitenkok, I came across the mother of all stupid bugs in Safari . Me having recently announced payformystay.com, I loaded it up in Apple's hipster browser only to notice that the CSS wasn't loaded. Oops! Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 weeks ago, on January 16, 2012, at 00:01 | 1 comment

Allowing apache to set Nagios cmd file

On debian, to prevent: Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’! Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on December 28, 2010, at 23:12 | No comments

Apache rewrite rule to rewrite to sub dir

One one particular site, I wanted to rewrite all requests to a sub dir. It took me over an hour, because of some obscure problem I haven't been able to identify. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 27, 2010, at 16:09 | No comments

Rewrite rules to redirect to a temporary offline page

Sometimes you want to take a site offline for a while. You can put this in .htaccess or the vhost config: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 22, 2010, at 14:09 | No comments

Preventing IOerror on stdout with modWSGI

By default, you can't use prints in a django app, because mod_wsgi restricts that. You can change that by putting this in your configuration: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 10, 2010, at 17:09 | No comments

Changing an apache virtual host to ssl

To change a virtual host in apache to ssl: #Redirect all normal traffic to the https site. RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R] Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 07, 2010, at 15:09 | No comments

Redirect multiple domains to one

When a site is available under multiple domains, it is usually bad idea to not have them all redirect to one domain. In apache, do this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on September 07, 2010, at 11:09 | No comments

Disabling debug for mod wsgi

For the record, when deploying mod wsgi apps, remember to enable optimizations in mod_wsgi.conf. Otherwise debug will be true.

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By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on August 06, 2010, at 17:08 | No comments

Generating a self-signed SSL certificate

This article explains nicely how to make a self-signed SSL certificate, for Apache for instance: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 16, 2010, at 23:05 | No comments

MediaWiki thumb.php and rewrite rules

May, last year, I created an empty draft for this post, because, around that time, I had gone through quite some effort before I got thumbnails for foreign file repos working just right. Now, I'm taking a dive into my MediaWiki working dirs in preparation of the creation of a separate development environment, so it's a good moment to rehash the past experience (almost as good as when I'd have done it right away). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 07, 2010, at 20:03 | No comments