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Computer, Computer - Linux, Information, Server Information

Strange server behavior

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Earlier in the month, I noticed that for some reason server ‘auto backups’ were not occuring, with the last one being 20 Dec 2014.  Upon investigation, I found that not only could I not mount /dev/sdc/ , the backup drive,  but fdisk -l |grep Disk wouldn’t even list it.  So, I figured that the drive died, so I ordered another 2 TB drive.  I also ordered a spare 250GB IDE drive.

Yesterday, I was going to prep and replace /dev/sdc.  I found that after a reboot, the server not only recognized the backup drive, but its data seemed intact, with the exception of the last sys partition backup.  So, I immediately did another fresh, full sys partition backup.

Well, at least now, I have a spare 2GB data drive, as well as a spare 250GB boot drive (the current one is only 200GB) onsite.  Could have been worse, I imagine.  😉

 

Music News, Server Information

New bitrate and new radio show

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crab_radio_01It 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’.

Blog Information, Computer - Linux

Webserver passwords, as well as web ‘symlinks’ WERE broken due to ONE bad .htaccess file!

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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. 😀

Computer - Linux, Server Information

‘NEW’ page now working on CRAB

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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.  😀