The configuration directive below is one I used to protect multiple URLs with a htpasswd file. So match (~) /url01/ or (|) /url02/ or (|) …. <Location ~ “/url01/|/url02/|/rfinlay1/|/cgribb5/|/lgrw01/|/ahll7/|/cki3/|/ele02/|/mm24/|/cmcc78/|/jmc8/|/gmc1/|/mmy82/|/eoa1/|/cs01/|/pr5/|/ln50/|/rc1/|/hd01/|/a05/|/e1/|/ss12/|/mm6/|/s75/|/gp01/” > AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/.htpasswd-file AuthName “Restricted Access” AuthType Basic Require valid-user </Location>
Posts By: jonny
BIND on CentOS 5
The version of Bind in the normal Red Hat / CentOS repositories is a little out of date. To get more up-to-date versions (9.7.4 at the time of writing) use the Centalt and EPEL repositories. Create the following file: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/centalt.repo And add the following to it: [CentALT] name=CentALT Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 –… Read more »
USB Multiboot Drive
This tool from pendrivelinux.com is a useful utility to help create a bootable USB pen drive with a menu system for booting into multiple operating systems. It works from within Linux/Ubuntu although there is a Windows tool available too. Useful for creating Live CDs for partitioning, virus checking, installing and includes persistent storage.
jQuery Reading Shakespeare XML
I was helping someone with some jQuery to read XML files of Shakespeare plays and this is what I came up with. Very incomplete but he so I can reference it in future…. shaXpeare shaXpeare The plays of Shakespeare with added X Factor Home Contents Play Choose a Play: Choose a PlayTRAGEDIESAntony and CleopatraCoriolanusHamletJulius CaesarKing… Read more »
Apache GeoIP Country Detection
Creating customised content based on the origin country of your website visitors requires installing the mod_geoip module for Apache and also the MaxMind GeoIP database as follows (on CentOS): mkdir ~/geoip cd ~/geoip wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP.tar.gz tar xzf GeoIP* cd GeoIP* ./configure make make check make install cd .. wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/mod_geoip2/mod_geoip2_1.2.5.tar.gz tar xzf mod_geoip2_1.2.5.tar.gz cd mod_geoip2_1.2.5… Read more »
Android Screenshots on Ubuntu
So I wanted to create screenshots of my HTC Hero Android phone from my Ubuntu desktop. So I … downloaded and extracted the android sdk to e.g. ~/programs cd into the ./tools directory run the ./android program Install any version specific stuff required sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/90-android.rules sudo service udev restart Unplug the phone and plug… Read more »
Creating a Yum Repository
Armed with a few RPMs I need to install on multiple machines and sick of SCP’ing files around machines I decided to set up a Yum repository. Here’s how: On a machine that already has Apache running and serving content: yum install createrepo cd /var/www/html/centos/5/qub/x86_64 createrepo /var/www/html/centos/5/qub/x86_64 Then on each client machine aiming to use… Read more »
PHP Web Scraping for Munin
There is a web page created by someone else containing figures I would like to use to draw some graphs in Munin. The HTML in that page is a bit ugly and looks like: <TR ALIGN = “Center”> <TD ALIGN = “Left” WIDTH = “49%” BGCOLOR = “#ECECEC”> <B>Building</B> </TD> <TD ALIGN = “Center” WIDTH… Read more »
Squid Problems
Todays installment in the Adventures of Squid Sandwich: Forwarding loop detected WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for: in /var/log/squid/cache.log Since I am using a DansGuardian sandwich with Squid for bread I set the unique_hostname host.domain.com in the first Squid conf then in the second Squid conf used a CNAME for the same machine of: unique_hostname proxy1.domain.com… Read more »
Linux: What is using all the Swap?
On Linux to discover which processes are using all the swap run top press ‘O’ (capital letter o) then ‘p’ then ‘enter’ Processes should be sorted by their swap usage.As shown in the screen below the minilogd process is using all the swap space on this machine. Looks like minilogd was gradually using up swap… Read more »
