Keep it ALL Updated

I was reviewing my Apache server logs this morning — something I do just about daily now — and noticed an interesting series of 404’s:

/wp-content/plugins/BackUp/Archive.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/BackUp/Archive/Predicate.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/BackUp/Archive/Reader.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/BackUp/Archive/Writer.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/Enigma2.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/fgallery/fim_rss.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/myflash/myflash-button.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions/ … lerybrowser.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/sniplets/modules/execute.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/sniplets/modules/syntax_highlight.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/st_newsletter/shiftthis-preview.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/st_newsletter/stnl_iframe.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/wassup/spy.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/wordspew/wordspew-rss.php: 1 Time(s)
/wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php:

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Displaying a Maintenance Page

One of the production sites I manage has a pretty straightforward setup. Your basic firewall, some 1-to-1 NAT routing and a pair of Web/App servers behind it. OK, there are some other boxes behind the firewall as well, but they’re not really germane so I’ll just wave my hands and gloss over that aspect.

Simplified, it

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I Want to Be Like a Web Host. I think.

As mentioned in a post last week, I’m rolling out some Linux based web servers at work (CentOS to start with). This will allow me to handle the assorted LAMP stack web apps that we use or would like to use in the future (currently WordPress and Joomla!, for example).

Up to this point I’d had

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Oops – Apache gets me again

Upgraded the server this morning to new release of the OS. Didn’t notice until recently that the upgrade broke stuff. Looks like I lost my carefully crafted httpd.conf. I had a backup from a week or so ago, so not completely hosed. If you noticed navigational issues this afternoon, that would

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Hamachi as a Linux Service, Apache fun

Finally got around to setting up Hamachi to start automatically on the Linux server that hosts this thing. Nice little “how-to” over in the hamachi forums that filled the bill nicely. That’s been on my list of things to do for over a month; I’m glad I finally got around to it (or

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