Deny access to .svn directories with Apache2 / lighttpd

If you’re using SVN to control your web application, your certainly need to deny access to .svn sub-directories.

With Apache2

    <DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.svn/">
            Order allow,deny
            Deny from all
    </DirectoryMatch>

With lighttpd

    $HTTP["url"] =~ "/\.svn/" {
        url.access-deny = ( "" )
    }

This entry was written by CharlyBr, posted on May 28, 2008 at 7:17 am, filed under http and tagged apache, lighttpd, svn. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Retrieve file from svn

Sometimes you need to retrieve a single file from SVN without doing a checkout on the repository.

SVN provides the svn cat to output the content of a file. You can redirect the output to get the file as :

svn cat https://svn.mydomain.com/project/folder/file.ext > file.ext

You can also use a simple shell script to do the work :

$ cat svnget

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        echo
        echo "Usage : $0 <SVN-URL>"
        echo
        exit
fi

fn=`basename $1`
svn cat $1 > $fn

This entry was written by CharlyBr, posted on May 23, 2008 at 7:51 am, filed under Command line and tagged svn. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

WordPress replaces pound by nginx

After two years of using Pound, WordPress decided to switch to Nginx as software load balancers for WordPress.com. Read the full story on Barry’s Blog.

This entry was written by CharlyBr, posted on May 8, 2008 at 7:12 am, filed under http and tagged load balancer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Automatically set title on iTerm tabs

If like me you use iTerm for your terminal sessions, this is the tips to dynamically set the tab title.

As I’m using the bash shell, the tab title can be automatically set with the PROMPT_COMMAND variable. You can set this variable in /etc/profile or in your .bashrc

Mine is like this :

export PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}\007″‘

The content of the variable is executed each time bash prints your prompt. Here echo is executed with the escape sequence to set the term title.

More informations

Some readings about this subject :

• iTerm Shell Customizations for bash, zsh and tcsh
• an old Bash prompt HOWTO
• Bash Homepage

This entry was written by CharlyBr, posted on May 7, 2008 at 2:10 pm, filed under Command line and tagged bash, iTerm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Use mod_redirect with lighttpd

Enable mod_redirect

server.modules += ( "mod_redirect" )

Force your domain with www.

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^domain\.com$" {
    url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domain.com/$1" )
}

Force your domain without www.

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www\.domain\.com$" {
    url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://domain.com/$1" )
}

Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS

$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
    $HTTP["host"] =~ "(.*)" {
        url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "https://%1/$1" )
    }
}

Redirect an old domain to your new domain

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www1\.domain\.com" {
    url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://www.domain.com/$1" )
}

Redirect a url that can be matched by a mod_rewrite rule

Lets say that you want to redirect http://www.domain.com/party to http://blog.domain.com/party while you have a mod_rewrite rule on www.domain.com that redirect all URLs to a controller (“^(.*)$” => “/index.php$1″).

Your redirect will not work because mod_rewrite always execute before redirect rules. To bypass this, you need to use the $0 as the rule target to pass URLs through unmangled.

e.g.

url.redirect = ( "^/party(.*)" => "http://blog.domain.com/party$1" )
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/party" => "$0" )

tested with lighttpd 1.4.x

This entry was written by CharlyBr, posted on May 6, 2008 at 12:56 pm, filed under http and tagged lighttpd. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Command line history

As read here, this is my command line history on my MacBook :

This entry was written by CharlyBr, posted on May 2, 2008 at 5:54 pm, filed under Command line and tagged history. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.