Monthly Archives: May 2008

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 = ( “” ) }

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Command line history

As read here, this is my command line history on my MacBook : [cc lang="bash" line_numbers="false"]$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head[/cc] [cc lang="bash" line_numbers="false"] 240 ssh 62 cd 55 scp 33 for 28 vim 25 ping 17 history 13 ls 4 sudo 3 telnet [...]