3DES’ Journal

New year’s eve and server upgrade!

2007’s last night, hope you all will have a nice night and a really good entrance to 2008!!

Also this afternoon ByteZero.Org has been upgraded thanks to a Compaq Presario SR1375ES I found at a trash bin near to my home. The mobo had a chipset cooler fix left so the chipset was uncooled and his owner through it away then he took optical drive, RAM, floppy disk and let rest for me!

So now instead of a Sempron 64bits 1.6GHz ByteZero.Org now runs an Athlon64 2.2GHz (with cpufreq enabled), check it out!.

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Howto: mod_dav

mod_dav provides an easy way to manage web content (or alike) on your web server without having a shell account (DAV RFC can be found at RFC).

I’ve done the setup using Apache web server so the first thing is to check whether your distribution installs the module with the Apache package. It is usually located under /usr/lib/{apache2,httpd} but it really depends on what distro are you using:

sergio@sjr ~ $ ls -la /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83772 Dec 17 13:20 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dav.so
.
Once checked we can start to setup Apache as follows:

<virtualhost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.net
  DocumentRoot /path/to/your/documentroot
  ServerName yourhostname.net
  Alias /content /path/to/your/content
  <ifmodule mod_dav.c>
  DAVLockDB /var/lock/DAV/DAVLock
  <location /content>
  DAV On
  AuthName "WebDAV access"
  AuthType basic
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
  Options None
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  <limitexcept GET HEAD OPTIONS>
  require valid-user
  </limitexcept>
  </location>
  </ifmodule>
  ErrorLog /path/to/your/logs/content_error.log
  CustomLog /path/to/your/logs/content_access.log combined
<virtualhost>

This configuration will allow access to your content path asking for a combination of user and password in order to protect it. To check the setup I have used cadaver a command-line client which works almost in the same way as a FTP client.

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Holidays at Netherlands

Virginia and I were on holidays last month, I as you know I’ve been some times before at Netherlands but this time was the most interesting ones…We visited Eindhoven were we stayed at Plaza Mandarin Hotel.

At Eindhoven’s airport we rented a car we used to visit some other places like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht. The last one was the most beautiful but it’s in fact more like a town, I’d rather be in a city .

We did two days in Amsterdam so we could visit as many places as we could, Anna Frank museum, Sex museum, Van Gogh museum, visit the city, have dinner in two fantastic restaurants…;) and had our 7 months together dinner .

Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht were more like a flash visit…just enough for view some of the city center and nothing more…they are nice places, Rotterdam’s night views are lovely from the bridge one can see a long side of the city with all its lights.

The real winner for we both was Eindhoven, it has an air of big city-town were everything seems quiet but you have everything you need like at any other major city…at least what we could need

Have a look at the pics.

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Domain change

From now on this blog can now be accessed @ ByteZero.Org, midgard.bounceme.net can still be used but please consider to change any link or any subscription to here.

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