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death to the tilde

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Linux | 1 Comment »

Well, for the past 2 hours, I've been fighting with mod_rewrite to get rid of the ~ character that apache shoves into a url for the UserDir directive by default. Since having a url like http://example.com/username/foo.html is far neater than ...

Sysinit triggers

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

When you boot up a typical RHEL or CentOS system, there are a number of checks that occur during that boot process. While you can see most of them mentioned during startup, or via the green [OK] during boot if ...

PHP with ODBC and MSSQL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

Building off yesterday's entry, today we're going to add php into the mix. Mostly to add php, you'll need to go through all of the previously mentioned steps, and a couple more for php. I'm going to assume that ...

Chatting with MSSQL

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Linux | 5 Comments »

As much as I wish I could have a pure Linux machine room, this just is not to be. I have to watch over several windows machines in addition to the Linux bits I love so much. Recently I've had ...

Getting apache to play nice

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

By default in CentOS and RHEL, apache does a very good job of handing out what you tell it. However if you deviate much from the usual html and php filetypes, you may find that some browsers try to render ...