dnsadmin – intro
dnsadmin is a web frontend/configuration script that allows for simple management of a bind authoritative server. All zone info is stored in a mysql database that is written into bind configuration and...
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Some people still deploy/use/support userdir sites. As tragic as this may be, managing those accounts has almost always sucked. This tool makes it suck slightly less. This tool assumes a pureftpd and...
View Articlemite – basics – directory and server config
mite isn’t so much a dedicated application as it is a collection of directory structures, modules, and implementation philosophy. Here are some of the basics of how it works, and why. DIRECTORY...
View ArticleUsing Apache to redirect requests to CloudFront
If you have some static content you want to send to CloudFront, and you don’t want to redo all your hrefs to handle that for you, here’s a quick and dirty way to use Apache instead. First, setup your...
View ArticleServing SSL with AWS ELBs and Apache
So you have a site that is on an EC2 instance, and you want to turn it into an SSL site. That’s a common task, but what if you have multiple SSL sites on that host. You can’t share the IP and still...
View ArticleMySQL Basic Auth for Apache on u14.04
Ubuntu 14.04 comes with Apache 2.4, rather than the 2.2 of 12.04, and as such has new bits that require some changes. I struggled for some time to get the database driven http authentication working...
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