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Permission denied: /.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file

August 27, 2008

If you ever see this in your Apache logs:

Permission denied: /path/to/web/data/html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

Think permissions, permissions, permissions. If you have chmod’ed your .htaccess 644 or even 777 and it’s still not working, start traversing up your directory tree and make sure apache can access everything at each level.

Permissions required will depend on the exact server and software setup, but generally something like 755 (drwxr-xr-x) is probably a good start.

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Facebook photo upload fail

August 20, 2008

This will teach me for even trying to upload my photos somewhere else other than Smugmug :)

What was I thinking…

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I can write in Russian now!

August 7, 2008

I can write in Russian now! Looks like in my sleep I’ve been composing emails in cryllic or some strange language, or so it appears going by this email that bounced back to me.

Nasty spammers using fake from addresses :-(

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Job advert fail

July 25, 2008

You would hope that recruiter’s could spell a bit better :-)

Definitely need those communication skills and attention to detail.

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Centos 5.2 + Udev + XEN

July 2, 2008

So my first Centos 5.1 to Centos 5.2 upgrade on a VPS didn’t go so well.

After “yum update” and a reboot, we see:

[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193

Followed by:

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

How not very nice!
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