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2.5 Up and Running

Donovan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:33:21 +0000

WordPress 2.5 was released today, so I upgraded this and my other blogs. No probs, except for one plugin that it broke and another that I think is a bit confused. That’s no big thing though and I am sure there will be some updates real soon to these plugins.

Upgraded to 2.5 RC1

Donovan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:17:30 +0000

Well, I thought I would give WordPress 2.5 RC1 a go. I can’t say that I am that impressed… it’s okay, but not life changing. Never the less, WordPress rocks!

Webalizer

Donovan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:27:37 +0000

I installed Webalizer today. Don’t know why, but thought I would. It took only about 20 minutes for me to figure out. Now I have server stats! I even learned a bit more about Apache while I was at it!

Spamassassin has been acting weird. I restarted the service today and it seemed to be fine, but not sure why it was letting spam through. Weirdness!

A few more bits/pieces

Donovan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:23:25 +0000

I installed some PHP code to put the system uptime in the right hand bar. Unfortunately, my uptime is low due to a powercut yesterday. I need to buy a UPS for Mazar some time! I also upgraded WordPress to 2.3.1.

Wordpress 2.3.1 RC installed

Donovan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:21:25 +0000

I thought I would give 2.3.1 RC a go on here. It is supposed to fix a few bugs. I have encountered only one personally, so it will be interesting to see if it got fixed!

FTP over SSL running

Donovan — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:53:43 +0000

I finished configuring SSL over FTP this afternoon. That means that most everything on this server can now be done over some form of encryption. I know this is a bit overkill, but it has been fun to learn a lot!

I just about went crazy!

Donovan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:49:00 +0000

I decided to force webmail users to use ssl encryption. So what I wanted to do was to make anyonw who tried to go to http://www.dmpnet.org/squirrelmail/ go to https://www.dmpnet.org/squirrelmail/ I also wanted to set up an alias which would be easier for someone to remember and spell called http://www.dmpnet.org/webmail To do this, I needed to get rewrite rules to work on apache. While doing this, I broke the web interface to http://www.dmpnet.org/mailman/listinfo It took me ages to fix mailman and after a lot of pain, I eventually achieved what I was originally after for forcing users to use encryption for webmail.

It was a lot of pain, but I learned a lot about mailman and apache. I am really fed up now, so I think setting up ssl for ftp is going to be at least a few days before I even think about it!!!

Encryption, encryption, encryption

Donovan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:25:12 +0000

I decided to go ahead and set up SSL for pop3, imap and smtp services on this box. In doing so, I broke spamassassin and had to figure out what the problem was there. I learned a lot more about mail directories and procmail as a result.

Ho hum they say! I also decided to go ahead and install squirrelmail, which makes it very easy to clear spam mail off of the server (rather than download it). It is also nice for the occasional remote access should you need it.

Mailman is rocking!

Donovan — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:57:59 +0000

I have always wanted to set up my own listserver. I have used Majordomo over the years and most recently with our hosting service at the-palmers.org, we have used Mailman. I had started to set it up on a couple of occasions, but hit a few problems and stopped.

However, this morning, I took a couple of hours and got it going! You can see the list page here. I know this is not earth shattering, but I learned a fair bit about Mailman, running CGI on Apache and also Postfix. You can join the test list if you wish. I’ll probably play with it from time to time and you might find it interesting.

Finally WP 2.3

Donovan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:18:23 +0000

Well, I loaded this morning WordPress 2.3 which was released about four hours ago. I’ll run this until this weekend and if everything is happy, I’ll probably start the process of upgrading my two main blogs. The upgrade took under 10 minutes!