It seems that CRAB is always about one step behind our sister station, QUACKHOUSE Radio. I have decided to push the bitrate and sampling frequency from 32/16 to 64/22. This is all in preparation of the Saturday night radio show resuming. This should happen just after New Year’s day. The format will be similar to the Saturday Night Trifectas that ended in Jan 2010. I shall try to set up a podcast blog page to allow you to listen to the shows ‘after the fact’.
Category Archives: Information
Webserver passwords, as well as web ‘symlinks’ WERE broken due to ONE bad .htaccess file!
Well, I unexpectedly caused the web server’s password protected directories ALL to go down the drain with just ONE mistake in ONE .htaccess file. Not only that, but many symbolic links stopped working in apache, even though they still worked in a CLI. I am such a dumbass, heh. Here’s what I did:
This is an example of the .htaccess file I created:
# cat .htaccess
AuthUserFile /XXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXX/.xxxxx AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Sam’s Blog”
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST PUT>
require user xxxxx yyyyy
</Limit>
The offending line is in Bold Blue, more specifically that one little old apostrophe. 😉
All fixed now, boys and girls. 😀
‘NEW’ page now working on CRAB
Got the NEW page working on the CRAB server…… It was more than likely a side effect of the Apache server upgrade somewhere around the Fedora 18 or 19 upgrade. Here’s how I did it:
I became root user, then opened a terminal in the requests directory.
# nano .htaccess
Then, I put the following into the file:
Options +Includes
AddType text/html .html .shtml .txt
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html .shtml .txt
Saved the file, then restarted Apache as follows:
# systemctl restart httpd
That took care of it, but I think I shall try putting that .htaccess file in CRAB’s document root, as well as the main server document root. I think that might be a better place for that file. 😀
Yet another issue with Fedora 20. (This is getting old)
Well, tonight, while trying to track down a firewall (I think) problem, I noticed that my messages log file, as well as all the other logs in /var/log/ were not being written, and were at 0 bytes. Not very useful to tail. So, I discovered that Fedora was moving away from rsyslog. I was not happy. So, I became root and:
# service rsyslog start
That took care of starting the logging back up, and to make sure that it starts after a reboot, I used nano to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and this is what I added towards the top of the file:
## Enable logging (Due to Fedora 20 suckiness)
service rsyslog start
THAT most definitely expresses my sentiment. 😉 I’m sure that uncovering these little issues is far from over, and all I can imagine is that Fedora is trying to ‘dumb down’ the OS to make it more like Windows, or Mac OS, in order to get a wider user base. Might be what the average ‘Point and Click’ user wants, but NOT what I want. Good thing that I’ve been at this game long enough to figure out how they are trying to tie my hands. Well, now that I have the source port numbers, I can get back on the road to figuring out my problem, tomorrow. 😉