Tag Archives: server administration
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Why you should use Nginx over Apache. (via Al Shaw)
dnsproxy.py – marlon-tools. Python-based DNS proxy that allows you to use wildcards in /etc/hosts.
#wcbos: Entreprise WordPress Do’s and Don’ts
Quick set of notes from Aaron Holmes’s 2:45 pm session at WordCamp Boston.
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This is suspicious.
Big news to announce. Which, unfortunately, requires I launch my new theme design. Which, unfortunately, requires I finish configuring the new Rackspace Cloud server that needs to host the new theme design. Tk in due time.
Bash script to execute wp-cron.php on WordPress multsite. For future reference if our current load doesn’t go down.
Nginx Pitfalls. Everything you shouldn’t do, and what you should use instead.
After a few months of punting, I finally configured Sphinx search on our dev box this afternoon. All in all, it took two hours to install, configure, and add to our tech WordPress theme. Here are my original notes if you want to try; if you install with a package manager, the greatest difficulty is understanding how to tune it and integrate into WordPress search. Next steps: refine search interface/experience, configure usage monitoring, add to corpus of data, rinse and repeat. Just think of how much more empowered educators would be if they had access to student search treads.
Cool, but obscure unix tools. Everything from rsync to ledger, an accounting package.