Categories:
Administration, Software
Thursday, May 20. 2010
I recently found myself having to make some php configuration
changes which are specific to a particular subdomain on my Mediatemple DV web
host, and found that yet another part of subdomain setup is mildly
broken out-of-the-box. This is the sort of thing that most people who
need it can probably figure out for themselves, but I'm posting the
solution hoping someone will find it useful.
On my DV the domain specific
apache configuration is located in /var/www/vhosts/domain-name/conf/, where
domain-name is of course replaced by your actual domain name. In
this directory you should find at least httpd.include, and possibly
vhost.conf as well. If you open httpd.include you'll find the
following alarming warning at the top:
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Categories:
Design, Software
Wednesday, September 16. 2009
First, let me preface this tale of User-Interface Woe with a
disclaimer: I am far from an Adobe fanboy. I love open-source
software. And of course, like everyone else, I really hate
Adobe's prices. But I've learned to use Illustrator and Photoshop
pretty well, so now, of course, switching to anything else causes work
not-so-much to grind to a halt as to slam into a brick wall while I
figure out all of the different metaphors, keyboard shortcuts, and
little tricks I need to approach anything like my former
productivity.
Trust me, I yearn to cast aside all Adobe products! Which brings me to
Inkscape, the open-source vector illustration program. I
really, really want to like it as a replacement for Adobe
Illustrator. It's one of those open-source apps I install every couple
of years to see if it's There Yet. And, yet again, I'm starting to think that it's not. Which brings me to the first problem I
encountered on my most recent attempt at mastering Inkscape.
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Categories:
Administration, Software
Sunday, October 19. 2008
I recently created a subdomain on my Mediatemple DV service, but for various reasons, I wanted to have a separate user responsible for that subdomain, with FTP and shell access. The user can be created along with the subdomain in Plesk as normally. Unlike the creation of users associated with domains, however, there is no option in Plesk to give this subdomain user shell access.
Fixing it is trivial if you have root access. Just edit /etc/passwd, find the line that starts with the username you just created, then change the last field of that line from /bin/false to /bin/bash (or whatever shell you like). This will allow you to su to the subdomain user or login via SSH, as you prefer. Easy, I know, but I noticed the option wasn't present in Plesk and well, maybe this tip will be helpful to somebody else out there.
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Categories:
Administration, Software
Friday, August 31. 2007
So far I'm relatively satisfied with my new Mediatemple DV hosting service. I have, however, discovered a problem with the Mediatemple configuration of Awstats, the logfile-analyzing web statistics package I use. Awstats can't find its images because the path is broken in the standard Mediatemple installation - browser and country icons are missing, and the bar graphs are empty:
Here's how to fix it.
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