install nagios3 packages: ?View Code BASH1 2 3 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get install nagios3 nagios3-doc config files are located in /etc/nagios3 and /etc/nagios3/conf.d configure your contacts and hosts accordingly. what got me crazy was enabling external commands (needed to perform actions in the webinterface like sending alerts or …
Tag Archive: Sysadmin
Dec
15
2010
Dec
09
2010
Using WordPress with SSL
Enable SSL for logins and admin pages in wordpress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL enable SSL on your Apache server: http://osinside.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-centos-apache-server-with-ssl.html http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/349 install WordPress HTTPSÂ http://mvied.com/projects/wordpress-https/ check Internal HTTPS Elements check Disable Automatic HTTPS further steps (not tested by me): Enable complete support for SSL on WordPress
Nov
10
2010
Snow Leopard Firewall keeps asking to allow iTunes.app
I reinstalled my Mac and after that i got the “allow / deny incoming connections for application iTunes.app” every time I started iTunes 10. This is annoying because i allowed that a hundred times already. After a lot of googling i finally found this webpage on macyourself.com with some sort of solution, but more interestingly …
Jun
22
2010
Getting SNMPD to work on Ubuntu
Setting up snmpd on ubuntu seems easy, but i never got it full working. It was working locally, but not for a cacti setup from another server. The problem was that the default install of snmpd on Ubuntu starts the demon on the loopback interface only, refusing connections from other computers. Edit /etc/default/snmpd to fix …
Apr
13
2010
Mar
23
2010
Enable your webserver to feed iPhone with MP4 videos
I’m using iPhone OS 3.x on my iPhone and recently i had problems to get my .mp4 files displayed in mobile Safari. I tried different settings for encoding the files but not a single one worked. When i clicked the link to the .mp4 file in mobile Safari, all i got was the “file can’t …
Jul
21
2009
Mac OS X 10.5: Setting a custom umask
umask is a UNIX command to set the default permissions for newly created files and folders. Especially when you have to share your files with other users on your computer or on a network share the default umask of 022 which Mac OS X uses is not very handy, it would be better if all …
Jun
12
2009
Using WordPress 2.8 and up with a proxy webserver in front
I use a public plain apache server with mod_rewrite to serve my wordpress as i don’t trust php enough to expose it to the world 
I wrote and updated a previous post describing what i’ve done to make things work for me, but now with Wordpress 2.8 it’s broken, so i had to figure out a fix for this problem again.
Jan
03
2009
Re-Flash LaFonera with original Firmware
After playing around with my LaFonera and ddWRT i decided to go back to the original LaFonera firmware. I liked ddWRT for it’s feature-richness, but as my requirements changed i don’t need the router to sit inside the LaFonera and thought it would be good to re-join the fon community
I found most of the commands to achieve this on Stefano Testi’s Blog in this article. I ran into some problems because i tried this on Mac OS X, so i added some steps to this procedure to succeed.
Aug
22
2008
How to hide a worpress instance behind a different apache server with mod_rewrite
I had the need to move my blog running wordpress 2.0.x to a different server, but keeping the domain name on the “old” server. I tried to do this with mod_rewrite and succeeded only partially 
after some hours of hacking around with mod_rewrite and wordpress itself i got i working and want to share my solution: note: let’s call the origin server SERVER A and the “new” server running wordpress and mysl SERVER B.