The new FLV enabled Icecast (KH branch) has a snag with CentOS. Use the special make command as shown below. wget http://www.icecast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/flv/icecast-2.3.2-kh23-flv.tar.gz tar -zxf icecast-2.3.2-kh23-flv.tar.gz cd icecast-2.3.2-kh23-flv ./configure make CFLAGS=”-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600″ make install
mod_security rule for Joomla com_properties [aid] vulnerability
So I needed to shrink a C: partition of a Windows 7 (Server 2008 R2) machine. After shrinking with Gparted (my open-source partitioning tool of choice), Windows no longer booted, with the boot manager complaining of 0xc0000225 (awesome error message as usual, Microsoft). To get things working again, it was necessary to execute the following […]
First, download, extract and install: mkdir /usr/local/red5; cd /usr/local/red5 wget http://www.red5.org/downloads/0_8/red5-0.8.0.tar.gz tar -zxf red5-0.8.0.tar.gz Install JAVA: wget -O java.rpm.bin http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=38657 chmod 755 java.rpm.bin; ./java.rpm.bin Open new init script: nano -w /etc/init.d/red5 Paste into init script: #!/bin/sh # For RedHat and cousins: # chkconfig: 2345 85 85 # description: Red5 flash streaming server # processname: red5 […]
Hostapd is a software daemon that turns a Linux box into a full blown wireless access point, but it doesn’t come with an init script to automatically start it when the machine boots up. It seems each Linux distribution that supports hostapd does their own thing, so I went ahead and created this little init […]
Fed up with cloud hosting? You’re not alone. Just recently, I assisted a mass exodus of over 50 mysql/joomla based sites. After the migration to just a modest dedicated server with Cpanel, MySQL queries improved by 200% on average. Some longer queries and page loading times saw improvement of over 1000%. Additionally, the dedicated server […]
On an HVM domain, the guest OS will always automatically detect your virtual network device as a buggy and slow Realtek RTL8139. You can maximize your network performance with Netfront driver which is now built into latest Redhat / CentOS kernel. For older releases, you needed the kmod-xenpv package to do this, but it’s built […]
Here’s a simple Javascript-based bookmarking script for your site. It automatically populates the page name and URL so you don’t have to. Put this in the <HEAD>: <script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”> function addToFav() { if(window.sidebar){ window.sidebar.addPanel(document.title, this.location,””); }else{ window.external.AddFavorite(this.location,document.title); } } </script> Then, you can add a link in your <BODY>: Bookmark Us!
On a busy webserver, you have to be very careful that you don’t run out of connection tracking buckets. Check how many you have set as your max: /sbin/sysctl net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max Check how many you’re using: wc -l /proc/net/ip_conntrack A good maximum setting for most web servers with at least 2Gb RAM is 65536. Change the […]
Here is the location of the main Cpanel configuration file. You can configure many of it’s various components, such adding more cpu’s to cpuwatch: /var/cpanel/cpanel.config