October 2005
4 posts
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Playing nice with Lighttpd
So it looks like I’m still getting the hang of Lighttpd and FastCGI, but I’m not alone. Lots of folks are jumping on the lighty wagon either for Rails or whatever reason. There’s been a number of bumps along the way and that in turn has caused more than a few collective BUMPs on some TextDrive servers. Of course the fix is easy and pretty reasonable.
When setting up the number of FCGI processes...
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Bringing Some Order to PHP Web Apps
I’m trying to clean up my PHP by ripping off some stuff from rails (er, what little I’ve seen of it). There are some good frameworks that already do this for you, like PHP Biscuit, but, as always, the server that I’m working on doesn’t quite fit the bill when fulfilling the version requirements of newer frameworks. So.. yeah. One way to do it is to mush together a bunch of stuff that’s already out...
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SSHKeychain totally rules
I was trying out public key only ssh authentication to lock down my testbed box at work. After I made the keys and got comfortable with the whole process, I thought I’d try out SSHKeychain. It’s really nice, once you figure it out. Not a whole lot of documentation to speak of though. Now that it’s up though, it does the work of two applications since it can also handle tunneling. Oh and it gives...
So I flaked
“I’ll keep you posted”
So, I suck. I got busy and I didn’t update. Then again with all the trouble I’ve had with the machines here at work I wonder how I get anything done. I’ve repaired, reformatted and reinstalled too many times. Been through a few machines. Just when I think things are settling, the video card in my little linux sandbox is giving out.
Things have also been a little rough at...