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I recently had to re-build my VPS and with the help of the documents over Linode’s Library I was up and running again within a couple of hours. A great concise, informative and accurate resource for configuring Linux based servers. Thanks again to the folks at 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.

1. MySQL : failed to start, complaining about:
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   1. /etc/init.d/mysql: ERROR: Using expire_logs_days without log_bin crashes
   2. the server. See README.Debian.gz

   Commenting out the expire_logs_days in the my.cnf file allowed me to restart MySQL.

2. 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.
3. the php-mysql connector somehow hadn't been upgraded/installed so a quick
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   1. apt-get install php5-mysql

   fixed that problem.

4. 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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   1. 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.

... to one and all.

New year, new look, search engine friendly URLs, fresh apache 2 install, ditto for MySQL. Add to that an additional 20% of RAM (thank you Linode!!), all in all a good start to the new year, promises to be a good one.

A big thank you to Linode for once again up-ing the  resources for my hosting plan. This UML instance now has 256Meg of Ram and 8 Gig of storage space as well as 100Gig transfer cap. Combine that with an awesome service and you have a winner. Thanks again Linode!