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  • WordPress, WebDAV and htaccess

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    So I moved my WordPress install to my domain root and the WordPress specific htaccess instructions have borked my WebDAV. Fortunately a little googling and I’ve got a solution. Since running a multisite install, my htaccess rewrites a lot. Turning off the RewriteEngine inside he WebDAV direcetory solves this issue. [code lang=shell] <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine…

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  • chroot'd SFTP on Mac OS X server

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    So here you are finding that you need to grant someone else SFTP access to your server. There are lots of reasons to do this, in my case it’s because I needed to grant access to someone’s web designer. We initially worked it out by him emailing me files and me SFTP’ing them up to…

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  • Squirrelmail Plugins

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    Just an FYI post. I save all my added Squirrelmail plugins in /Users/Shared/squirrelmail_plugins/. Consequently if I need to reinstall any or all of them all I have to do is issue the following… [bash] sudo cp -R /Users/Shared/squirrelmail_plugins/PLUGIN_FOLDER /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins sudo /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl [/bash] Activate the plugins, save, quit and you’re good to go.

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  • Setting up WebDAV Share in Mac OS X Server

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    As I attempt to transition from a laptop to an iPad, with no specific reason other than the iPad is sooooo kewl; I need to create my own online storage. Yes I have a Dropbox account, but I don’t control Dropbox. Here’s what I did, YMMV. From Server Admin, make new Web > Realm and…

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  • Updating DNS settings

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    Just to document. I’ve updated the settings in /etc/named/named.ca by using the following command and then restarting DNS. sudo curl ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root -o /var/named/named.ca Not sure how often this should be done. I also added the following to /etc/named.conf to reduced the error logging. I got that tidbit from google groups logging { category lame-servers {…

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  • Fail2ban Problems and Solutions

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    If you use Fail2ban then you are probably aware of the fact that you must add a rule number to the ipfw deny rule for actionban in ipfw.conf. If you don’t add a rule number then there is no way for fail2ban to delete the rule after it expires. The problem lies in that you…

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