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Posted on March 25, 2010 at 2:21 pm

Pretty Correct Colors!

First off lets go back about a week in time… I am NOT a GUI guy, photo guy, etc.  I traditionally have been a systems administrator, lately I’ve gone more whole hog into web application development.  But I still don’t do UI.  So color has never really felt that important to me.  I know my [...]

Posted on June 16, 2009 at 2:24 am

Migration Woes

Did a not exactly smooth migration to my new webserver today. Found out that Debian 5/Lenny seems to have completely broken suPHP.  It can’t correctly figure out the DocumentRoot anymore for some reason. It complains to error log ‘SoftException in Application.cpp:202: Script “x” resolving to “x” not within configured docroot’  – except it is so [...]

Posted on April 11, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Seriously Google? MD Hang Equals Barn Sex?

Seriously. WTF? (click the full article to see the screen capture)

Posted on March 31, 2008 at 9:34 pm

TLS-SNI, bless you, need a tissue?

OK so if you try to pronounce it incorrectly people might think you have a cold.  The good news is though that Server Name Identification AKA TLS-SNI will likely be making it into Debian Lenny.  It’s already in Apache 2.2.x upstream but there’s no release with it quite yet.   Now we can do SSL [...]

Posted on March 19, 2008 at 9:52 pm

suPHP you!

An interesting default change, coupled with a goof on our part caused suPHP to stop working on one of our customer’s servers.  They removed the hardcoded handler – x-httpd-php, in favor of a suPHP_AddHandler directive.  Compound failure on our part though, we removed the suphp.conf file.  So if you’re upgrading from Debian 3.X to 4.0 [...]