gregs » linode http://gregs.tcias.co.uk helping me remember what I figure out Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:04:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Once again Kudos Linode http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2010/06/12/once-again-kudos-linode/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2010/06/12/once-again-kudos-linode/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:16:20 +0000 gregs http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/?p=516 Continue reading →]]> 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!

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  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.

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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. :)

]]> http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2008/01/04/happy-new-year/feed/ 1 Kudos Linode http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/04/27/kudos-linode/ http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/2007/04/27/kudos-linode/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:56:34 +0000 gregs http://gregs.teacupinastorm.com/?p=450 Continue reading →]]> 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!

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