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Resolving “‘unknown’: unknown terminal type.” error 12 Oct 2010 | 04:01 pm
Last day, after updating the repositories and installing the updated packages on my Debian Lenny, I found that I could no longer run top or use nan or vi to open a file. It threw up this nasty error: ...
WordPress permalinks in nginx 22 Aug 2010 | 06:53 pm
WordPress generally works out-of-the box on nginx. The posts load fine, the functions in the dashboard work pretty well, until you come to the permalinks. If you are on Apache, with mod_rewrite, WordP...
IPv6 support in nginx 18 Aug 2010 | 07:59 pm
To enable IPv6 support in nginx, we need to check whether it has been compiled with --with-ipv6 flag. To check, fire up the terminal and type in this command : The results should be something like th...
Nginx reduces page load time, increases Googlebot activity 13 Aug 2010 | 06:02 am
After a small incident with a shared host, I moved my phpBB forum and a few other static sites to a VPS running on nginx. Nginx is a small, lightweight but very efficient web server created by Igor Sy...
Enable directory listing in nginx 29 Jul 2010 | 01:49 am
Enabling directory listing in a folder in nginx seems simple enough with just an autoindex on; directive inside the location directive. However, for some reason, it didn’t work for me. I finally got ...
Www/no-www rewrite rules for nginx 22 Jul 2010 | 04:14 pm
There are many ways to rewrite www urls to their non-www versions in nginx. Here one that’s Igor-approved and works well on my setup : WWW to Non-WWW: Non-WWW to WWW: Related posts: Enable directo...
Unexpected email and Alexa bot 20 Jul 2010 | 06:35 pm
I got a surprise today when I found that I have an email in my inbox from webmaster@animorphsfanforum.com. The email had subject “Subject” and has content “Content”. My first instinct was that someone...
Nginx: Resolving “No input file specified” error 17 Jul 2010 | 04:59 pm
If you are using nginx with php-cgi and have followed the standard procedure to set it up, you might often get the “No input file specified.” error. What happens here is that, when nginx receives the ...
Finding the Lubuntu 10.04 torrent 13 Jun 2010 | 01:52 pm
I’ve been meaning to try out Lubuntu for quite some time, but was thwarted by the lack of a torrent. If you didn’t know, Lubuntu is an Ubuntu variant using the lightweight LXDE desktop environment, li...
Storing and reusing Ubuntu updates 30 May 2010 | 02:25 pm
Suppose you have two computers running the same version of Ubuntu and you have downloaded and installed the updates on one of the computers. Since you are having a rather expensive or maybe, a limited...
