Site Archives

Setting up gzip compression on Apache 2.x

Posted by plattapuss on July 27th, 2007

Have you ever thought about using gzip compression on Apache? Well, think no more and do. It is well worth it as many people will point out.
After playing with it, and breaking things, and fixing things, I have it working well on my Apache 2.x servers now. Here is the complete rule set I [...]

NJABL.org Dynablock is no longer

Posted by plattapuss on July 25th, 2007

Recently I have noticed a great increase in spam going through our servers. In the past I used only 3 lists in my sendmail.mc file to block spammers at the front door. Those were:
PLAIN TEXT
PHP:

dnl #

dnl # The -t option will retry delivery if e.g. the user runs over his quota.

dnl #

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org',`"550 Denied RBL " [...]

Rebuild Ensim FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE to solve bizarre errors

Posted by plattapuss on July 8th, 2007

A few weeks ago one of my Ensim 4.1.0 RHEL4 servers and have since had endless troubles. My most recent problems involved me not being able to create any new sites on the server, which sort of puts a damper on what my hosting business was supposed to do!
After some searching through forums and not [...]