Posts Tagged ‘General’

Random Fix Theatre

General | Posted by Derek
May 05 2010

Took a few minutes today to help someone with an Xampp installation. He needed to do three things:

  1. NameVirtualHosts, so that different dyndns-style hostnames would point to different virtual servers on the same box. No problem, he had NameVirtualHost working.

  2. Create a second virtualhost to deliver a directory index of a specified DocumentRoot, and

  3. Point that DocumentRoot at a network share mounted on a windows XP drive letter (B: -> \Server\Share)

Apache would explode. “DocumentRoot must be a directory” and refusal to start. After installing Xampp myself and fooling around for about 20 minutes I found that the DocumentRoot worked fine on a local drive, but not a network share on a drive letter.

So, since B:/ didn’t work, yet C:/ would let the server start, I threw //Server/Share/ at mine and it fired right up, gave the listing. Tada.

<3

Eeexcept it wouldn’t work for him.

After another hour of back and forth on IRC and emailing the config file back and forth (DCC wouldn’t work either but I blame my clearaccess modemrouter), I’m finally ready to declare it a ‘feature’ of windows XP. He had Xampp set up on an XP box, the files to be listed on a windows 7 box, and while he could hit \Server\Share on XP’s ‘Run’ command and have it pop right up with the share, apache would not tolerate //Server/Share and declared “must be a directory” Yet, //S/S would work fine when I tried it on Xampp running on windows 7.

Until I can roll a winxp VM and test it I can’t 100% blame XP, but I’m strongly leaning that direction. I’m assuming it’s a change in implementation in how the OS presents the share path to applications requesting it. 7 properly presents it as a directory and apache is pleased, but somehow XP doesn’t and apache is not amused.

(footnote: apache requires / while windows finds \ far more delicious)

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Not dead

General | Posted by Derek
Apr 30 2010

Just a terribly busy month. Almost makes me long for winter again.

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It’s Just One Silly Day a Year

General | Posted by Derek
Apr 01 2010

In case you missed them while the site was ‘translated’ here’s a couple of pictures.

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Hiatusii

General | Posted by Derek
Mar 12 2010

Does ‘hiatus’ have a plural? The Great and Powerful Internet Oracle indicates it is simply ‘hiatus.’ I personally like the idea of multiple ‘hiatusii’. Two ‘i’ help reinforce the idea that there is more than one hiatus at work.

Tangent…

So. Nothing new, yet again. Working on other projects, most involving chainsaws and making large pieces of wood (tree sized, perhaps) into smaller pieces (firewood sized, perhaps). It is hard to type with leather gloves on, and woodchips do not process information faster than silicon. Adding them to the laptop adds heat with no discernable increase in power. Very sad :(

There was a request to perhaps repost Creationism in the interim. I can’t do that yet, mainly since I haven’t looked at it to ensure it’ll fit into current continuity. I could toss the old one at The Burn Pile since, but I’m not certain just yet. I’d rather not wind up stalling Creationism because it makes calls on portions of PS or TF that don’t yet exist. This has happened already a couple of times between PS and TF, and I’d rather not do that again, as fun as recursion can be.

Snow is showing signs of melting. It’s only March. How am I supposed to have my annual snowball fight in May? I may have to fill the chest freezer.

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Cat

General | Posted by Derek
Feb 13 2010

At this moment I have nothing new to share. Instead, I give you a photo of one of my kitty cats, Cocoa. In her litter, it was her, a cream-colored, two gray tabbies, and one that could nearly pass as a purebred siamese.

When I think of Casiandra, this is what I’m envisioning. With blue eyes.

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