Using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect URLs

When installing, wordpress by default deflates the blog contents into the "/blog" subdirectory of the webserver root. For example, if your website root is /var/www then wordpress will generate all its content into /var/ww/blog. Now, lets say you have a DNS account, such as my ddilittleitaly.dyndns.org, then in order to reach the subdirectory, visitors to … Continue reading Using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect URLs

Nagios Quick-Start (ubuntu)

Nugget Post I just installed nagios on an Ubuntu Karmic machine, following the excellent quick start guide posted here: http://www.thedailyadmin.com/2009/03/how-to-install-nagios-on-ubuntu-linux.html One note though, I didn't seem to need to add the apache directives for Nagios as described (the  "ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/local/nagios/sbin" part) since the Nagios config file seems to have defined them itself in the … Continue reading Nagios Quick-Start (ubuntu)