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Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the … Continue reading

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from Squirrel to Crystal

For years, we were using Squirrelmail as the default web mail client. Well, it would be a lie to say its design looks good but it offers a lot of functionality that nearly compensates the design deficits. The really basic functionalities … Continue reading

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find out if your Apache is really serving the right hosts

From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There … Continue reading

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Request Tracker 3.8.2 on gentoo

We finally managed to release a package for the (currently) recent version of Best Practical’s Request Racker (rt). We added it to our layman / portage overlay. see the following article for information on how to add it to your … Continue reading

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tomcat on port 80

You might know the situation: You’d like to run tomcat from a privileged port, but the bloody thing just won’t start. Of course, it’s java-specific. Usually, a daemon gets its port from root. Not with Java. Your possibilities are therefore … Continue reading

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creating apache vhosts with style

We decided to have a reverse domain name structure that conatains (beside the htdocs) all vhost-related information like logs, stats and config. The reverse structure is neccessary to get an quick overview not about the subdomains but the domains. Additionally, … Continue reading

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Serverupdate

Irgendwann ist es soweit: Ein Update muss her! Da wir immer bestrebt sind, die verwendete Software aktuell zu halten, ist es von Zeit zu Zeit notwendig, einige größere Aktualisierungen durchzuführen. Heute, nach 577 Tagen Dauerbetrieb des Servers ist es mal … Continue reading

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lighttpd and awstats

There are lots of howtos for running awstats with lighthttpd. Nearly all of them define a subdomain for statistics but miss to add the only line for defaulting to awstats.pl. Here is what you have to do to do it … Continue reading

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bringing awstats and mod_vhost_alias together

<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } H1 { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } H1.western { font-family: “Albany”; font-size: 16pt } H1.cjk { font-family: “HG Mincho Light J”; font-size: 16pt } H1.ctl { font-family: “Lucidasans”; … Continue reading

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vandalsquad II

Nach einem Serverumzug im letzten Sommer hat sich der Traffic zwischen Januar und Dezember letzten Jahres mehr als verdoppelt. Was ein zweiter Kern so alles ausmachen kann… Inzwischen wurde auch die Terrabyte-Grenze mehrfach deutlich überschritten. Zwar wird dann die Bandbreite … Continue reading

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