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Installing PHP on Debian without Apache

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 06:07

When I recently went to install PHP on a server on which I did *not* want Apache, I learned that a simple, "apt-get install php5" will install Apache.

A quick look at the depends, though, and the following sequence worked.

Yes, I'm aware commands can be combined. I chose multiple steps.

sudo apt-get install php5-common
sudo apt-get install php5-cgi
sudo apt-get install php5

The php5-cgi package fulfills the depends that would otherwise be fulfilled by Apache.

-jbn

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Custom Authentication for Drupal

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 13:19

I recently had a need to write a custom authentication module for Drupal 6. I struggled to find a good example from which to work. As anyone researching the topic knows, Drupal 6 dropped the couple of hooks that were in Drupal 5 that made custom authentication a brainless activity.

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Snow Pictures

Sat, 02/06/2010 - 08:01

The so-called "snowpocalypse" is here, and ... it's living up to many expectations. About 14-15" on the sidewalk at 7:30 this morning. The sidewalk was pretty heavily treated when this all started, so it was the last to accumulate snow. The middle of the yard is probably 2-3" higher, at least.

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Freeswitch Installation

Fri, 02/05/2010 - 12:43

I recently needed to install Freeswitch for a singular reason: to register to another server when a SIP client registered to it. (What I call "register on register"). As I went, I decided to document the process of installing and configuring.

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Debian, locales, and puppet

Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:52

Having gotten sick and tired of receiving error messages like this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I decided to solve the problem once and for all. We use puppet to manage machines, so this should be - and is - straight forward.

/etc/puppet/modules/locales/files/locales.gen:

#
# /etc/locales.gen
#
# managed by puppet
#

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The Quest for Wind Power

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 16:29

When the state initially deregulated the electricity market, I had little use for it. It wasn't that I loved our monopoly provider, BGE, it was more that I really didn't believe I would benefit from deregulation. A year or two ago, I finally found a benefit: Pepco Energy Services offered to sell me 100% wind power at at premium over the price of regular power. (For what it's worth, BGE's supply is, I believe, coal and nuclear).

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Generic Apache Redirect to Add www to Domain Name

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 10:10

It's common to want to add "www" to a domain name, so that users typing in the "non-www" domain name, will get to the right site. It's important to implement this with a 301 redirect so that search engines recognize that there is only one true and real site.

The traditional way to do this is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^euphline.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.euphline.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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Welcome to EuphLine

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 09:46

Every few years since the dawn of time ... okay ... so perhaps since the late 90's, I've started euphline.com anew, from scratch. Each time, I've moved to a different content management scheme, and pretty much replaced all of the content. This time, it's on Drupal 6, running the Domain Access module, as part of a family of sites including ejTown and Elizabeth's Books.

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