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Nagios 3.0.x on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS

Wolfgang — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:04:27 +0000

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 …

Using WordPress with SSL

Wolfgang — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:13:33 +0000

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 HTTPS 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

Snow Leopard Firewall keeps asking to allow iTunes.app

Wolfgang — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:56:49 +0000

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 …

Getting SNMPD to work on Ubuntu

Wolfgang — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:53:16 +0000

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 …

Mac OS X 10.6, PHP and MySQL

Wolfgang — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:53:11 +0000

Enable your webserver to feed iPhone with MP4 videos

Wolfgang — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:12:34 +0000

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 …

Mac OS X 10.5: Setting a custom umask

Wolfgang — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:35:09 +0000

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 …

Using WordPress 2.8 and up with a proxy webserver in front

Wolfgang — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:15:37 +0000

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.

Re-Flash LaFonera with original Firmware

Wolfgang — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:01:00 +0000

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.

How to hide a worpress instance behind a different apache server with mod_rewrite

Wolfgang — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:59:42 +0000

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.