Archive for category: Linux


Getting Lighttpd, FastCGI and PHP working on CentOS 4

2 July, 2008 (14:09) | HowTo, Linux, PHP, Technology | By: Matt | Digg (0)

Over the years I have been installing Lighttpd from the RPMforge repository on my CentOS 4 servers for high traffic sites. The one thing that bothers me time and again is that installing lighttpd, lighttpd-fastcgi and PHP; configuring lighttpd.conf to enable FastCGI and configuring FastCGI for PHP isn’t all that is required. Try [...]

CheckGmail Problem With Google Hosted Domains

18 June, 2008 (10:56) | HowTo, Linux | By: Matt | Digg (0)

For some time now I have been using CheckGmail to monitor both my gmail.com accounts and my sivel.net accounts. But several months ago Google changed the way that accounts are authenticated for hosted domains.
If you are experiencing this problem I suggest downloading the most recent version of CheckGmail from the CheckGmail subversion trunk. [...]

OpenSSH Client notty Disconnection Problem

18 January, 2008 (09:24) | Linux, Technology | By: Matt | Digg (0)

I recently wrote a script that waits for something to happen and then executes a command on a remote machine via ssh. I ran into a problem where the ssh connection was established and then the ssh connection would never close.
I found out after some diagnostics that becuase there was no tty assigned to [...]

Single Sign-On with Apache and Active Directory - Part 2

29 October, 2007 (09:07) | HowTo, Linux | By: Matt | Digg (0)

Part 1 | Part 2
Back on May 23rd, 2007 I wrote an article titled Single Sign-On with Apache and Active Directory which I have now made Part 1 of this topic. In that article I wrote:
There are 3 major solutions for this which are mod_ntlm, mod_auth_kerb and Apache2:AuthenNTLM…I tried mod_ntlm which seemed to be [...]

Using Sprint PCS Connection Card with Fedora

26 October, 2007 (11:01) | HowTo, Linux, Technology | By: Matt | Digg (0)

I have seen a good number of incoming links requesting this page that I had written back when I was using a wiki for my web site. So I decided to bring it back and make some redirects to direct people to the correct location.
With that being said these instructions are for configuring Fedora [...]