A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This post describes how to make a “Site down for maintenance” notice using Apache .htaccess and the mod_rewrite module. I assume you know how to enable the Apache htaccess directive and the mod_rewrite module. First you need to create a .htaccess file in your root level of your website. Next you add the following lines […]
This is how I’ve enabled secure SSL login through https on a mediaWiki 1.13.3 installation. This description might work on other versions of mediaWiki, but that has not been tested. mediWiki doesn’t support SSL login out of the box so a little hack has to be performed. First you need to tell the webserver, in […]
Vlogger is a program that handles large amounts of virtualhost logs and splits it to separate files. This is a short HOWTO to configure it using Apache. Install vlogger in debian etch # aptitude install vlogger Make sure you have working Apache server Configuring vlogger Change the LogFormat line (there are multiple LogFormat lines – […]
This is a bash oneliner to show Apache web connections pr hour. It lists up the IPs that has accessed your webserver and the amount og accesses. # cat /var/log/apache2/access_log_pario.no | grep “21/Jan/2008:..” | awk {‘ print $4″:”$1 ‘} | sed ‘s/\[//g’ | awk -F : {‘ print $1″:”$2″\t\t”$5 ‘} | sort | uniq -c […]
It is possible to use macros in the Apache config files to shorten them and make them easier to read and manage. To use this you have to install mod_macro if it’s not already installed in your distribution. Sample mod_macro usage <Macro VHost $customer $domain> <VirtualHost $domain:80> ServerName $domain ServerAlias www.$domain DocumentRoot /vaw/www/$customer/htdocs/$domain/ ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ […]