There are plenty of reasons to adopt new opportunities of using custom font faces to design your website. And there are several ways to achieve that. Using font providers is one of those options. In opposition to that hosting webfonts yourself is another option and it includes some essential benefits. Though there is software on the net to help you with serving yourself some fonts this post is introducing a new implementation of a webfont provider using commonly available language PHP. Continue reading »
Jan 17
Fixing WebDAV support in MacOS X and on iPad
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Though several sites claim Mac OS X properly supporting WebDAV thus making any connection to a WebDAV server a snap you might encounter some trouble on “snapping”. Windows clients properly connect to your Apache 2.2 based installation of mod_dav. Using Finder connection fails due to invalid server address. Using Terminal for invoking command mount_webdav everything’s working, though. While Pages on iPad properly connects to your server, but GoodReader fails to do so, you are stuck in same situation as me. Here is the solution … Continue reading »
Jan 10
Make Your Contao Installation Least-Writable
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If you consider on file permissions in setting up Contao Content Management System you may ask what files and folders need to be writable to the webserver at least. Here is a quite short list I’m used to work with. It’s sufficient to enable managing CSS files as part of a theme as well as installing most (but not all) available extensions. Continue reading »
Nov 23
Preparing Chroot Jail
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In Linux and similar operating systems using chroot is a way to put services and applications in a jail so they can’t access any file in filesystem but the ones contained in a single folder, called “chroot jail” becoming root folder from jailed application’s point of view. Unless compiled specially for this purpose applications in Linux etc. are used to depend on shared libraries. And nearly all of them need access on some special files, such as device nodes. Here is a little script conveniently achieving preparation of a chroot jail for your particular application. Continue reading »
Apr 12
Authenticate against LDAP over PAM in Gentoo
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This post is basically intended to collect some information currently hard to find on Google. I wrote with the hope it might help someone else running into same or similar trouble as I did. It took several hours distributed over several days of investigation to finally fix a problem with my setup of Gentoo-based servers commonly authenticating against LDAP tree over PAM, Linux’ Pluggable Authentication Modules. Continue reading »
Apr 11
Virtualization of Gentoo using OpenVZ #2
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In my previous post I told you about some guides for installing vanilla Gentoo containers in a OpenVZ virtualization system. This time I’ll try to collect those things missing in template. Continue reading »
Apr 11
Hosters offer high-performance dedicated root servers for eligible monthly rates – at least some major Germany based hosters do so. Quad-core Intel i7 systems with 8 GB RAM for 50 EUR per month serve as a perfect start into server virtualization. And so it’s time to start your own virtual server farm. Continue reading »
Jul 21
( IMAP + LDAP ) + pam_access = not working
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Having a setup of Postfix/Cyrus IMAP using LDAP-based user account/mailbox management I tried to extend this by pam_access today for disabling some of the mailboxes without deleting them. pam_access is a plugin for PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules, used to reject or grant access depending on a user’s name or origin of request. In a setup as described before this seems to be useful for disabling selected mailboxes e.g. to temporarily lock out tardy payers.
Jul 13
Today I’m providing information on my efforts to get a running installation of Zimbra Collaborative Suite using its Open Source Edition. It’s being installed onto a server running an up-to-date 2008.0 installation of Gentoo Linux. It’s a vServer and I tried to install from source first. But then I found a very useful tutorial putting a binary distribution of Zimbra CS into a Debian-like context running in chroot.
Jun 23
So the excerpt is already indicating it: it’s possible to have a Gentoo distribution running on a Strato VServer. I was cycling through trying to install Gentoo, failing due to server not coming up properly after rebooting (not providing any logfile or similar), considering switch to Debian on this single server for the sake of simplicity, then falling back to praising benefits of a homogeneous set of servers sharing one Linux distro for several days now. After tweaking some things I finally got a server responding to pings, responding to SSH login requests.
