Apache/SSL configuration (on debian)
by gregs on Mar.16, 2010, under *nix, apache, debian, ssl
More for posterity, this was the last step that was eluding me. I had found numerous resources to get me started on the path to setting up Apache and SSL, but when it came to having a working config and server, when I went to browse my Debian test server, I would get this message:
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(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
When you google for the solution I found a number of dead ends, but in the comments for one of them there was a helpful pointer.
When you do an 'ls -la' on sites-enabled (inside /etc/apache2), you will see a symbolic link to the sites-available folder and typically just for the default site (000-default -> default). However in sites-available there's also a default-ssl config file. Creating a symbolic link to this file and reloading apache fixed my problem and now I have apache serving up http over SSL .
IOGraph
by gregs on Mar.14, 2010, under creative, design, tumble
Stumbled across this little app today IOgraph and the tag line "Do your business, Do art" tickled my fancy, so I decided to give it a whirl this afternoon.
being creative while writing code... 
Upgrading to Lenny
by gregs on Mar.09, 2010, under *nix, MySQL, apache, debian, linode
It's been while since I attended to my VPS, I decided to spend some time last night upgrading my distribution from Etch to Lenny. This is normally a moment where your heart sinks as quite a few things do tend to go belly up, but I am happy to report that I only came across some minor issues and these were resolved in minutes as opposed to hours.
- MySQL : failed to start, complaining about:
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/etc/init.d/mysql: ERROR: Using expire_logs_days without log_bin crashes
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the server. See README.Debian.gz
Commenting out the expire_logs_days in the my.cnf file allowed me to restart MySQL.
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- After the upgrade of Apache, my virtual hosts weren't working. A quick search via Google pointed me to this post - a quick edit of all of my host files and it was all working again.
- the php-mysql connector somehow hadn't been upgraded/installed so a quick
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apt-get install php5-mysql
fixed that problem.
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- OpenBD : the only thing that remains broken was my tomcat5.5 Open BD install. Tomcat was working fine but Open BD refused to start up complaining about :
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javax.servlet.ServletException: Open BlueDragon Engine Failed to initialise tags: java.awt.Color
Since I am not really using it, it's not that important, but at some stage I'd like to get it working again. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment.
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SVN : authentication with a windows domain
by gregs on Mar.08, 2010, under apache, svn
Finally got round to implementing this for work. As a starting point I followed the instructions found here.
The config looked fine, but after restarting the service, I still wasn't getting prompted for a log in. After re-jigging the order to what you see below and restarting the apache service (we are using 2.0.59), it all worked. Maybe this will help someone else along the way.
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<Location /svn>
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DAV svn
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# any "/svn/foo" URL will map to a repository /usr/local/svn/foo
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SVNParentPath {drive letter}:/path/to/SVN/epositories/
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AuthName "SVN"
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AuthType SSPI
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SSPIAuth On
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SSPIAuthoritative On
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SSPIOfferBasic On
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SSPIOmitDomain on
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SSPIDomain <domain controller>
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SSPIBasicPreferred On
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Require valid-user
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</Location>
gnumake: *** No rule to make target `all’
by gregs on Apr.06, 2009, under *nix, mac, os x
I was using MacPorts to install ICU and Jam. After running the installer for the first time I got the following error message:
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sudo port install icu jam
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Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_icu/work/icu/source" && gnumake all " returned error 127
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Command output: sh: gnumake: command not found
Oops forgot to install XCode (you always forget to install something on a new machine 
). Quickly ran the XCode installer, however when I ran the command again I got a new error:
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sudo port install icu jam
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---> Building icu
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Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_icu/work/icu/source" && gnumake all " returned error 2
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Command output: gnumake: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
Turns out you need to do a cleanup before attempting to run the command again:
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sudo port clean --work icu
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---> Cleaning icu
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sudo port clean --work jam
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---> Cleaning jam
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sudo port install icu jam
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---> Fetching icu
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---> Verifying checksum(s) for icu
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---> Extracting icu
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---> Configuring icu
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---> Building icu
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---> Staging icu into destroot
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---> Installing icu @4.0_0
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---> Activating icu @4.0_0
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---> Cleaning icu
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---> Fetching jam
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---> Attempting to fetch jam-2.5.tar from http://distfiles.macports.org/jam/2.5
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---> Verifying checksum(s) for jam
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---> Extracting jam
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---> Applying patches to jam
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---> Configuring jam
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---> Building jam
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---> Staging jam into destroot
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---> Installing jam @2.5_1
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---> Activating jam @2.5_1
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---> Cleaning jam
Time to continue the Mapnik install.
VMWare and keyboard input
by gregs on Jul.09, 2008, under *nix, mac, os x, vmware
This morning I fired my Windows XP VM on my mac and my keyboard input simply stopped working. After a couple of VM reboots, which had no effect, I did some googling. The first result suggested typing a few commands to determine what had disabled it:
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$ ioreg -l -w 0 | grep SecureInput
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| "IOConsoleUsers" = ({"kCGSSessionSecureInputPID"=177,"kCGSSessionLoginwindowSafeLogin"=No,"kCGSSessionAuditIDKey"=0,"kCGSessionLoginDoneKey"=Yes,"kCGSSessionSystemSafeBoot"=No,"kCGSSessionOnConsoleKey"=Yes,"kCGSSessionUserIDKey"=501,"kSCSecuritySessionID"=11622192,"kCGSSessionUserNameKey"="gregstewart","kCGSSessionGroupIDKey"=20,"kCGSSessionConsoleSetKey"=0,"kCGSSessionIDKey"=256,"kCGSessionLongUserNameKey"="User"})
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$ ps auxwwww | grep 177
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user 177 7.8 9.2 652520 192788 ?? S 10:51pm 59:09.22 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -psn_0_110619
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user 1155 0.0 0.0 599820 464 s001 S+ 10:44am 0:00.00 grep 177
According to the post the application that was blocking it was FireFox. "kCGSSessionSecureInputPID"=177 is the info you need to look for, where in my case 177 was the number I needed to use in the next command. Incredulous as I was, I closed FireFox and hey presto keyboard input was working again.
Hopefully this post will help others.
