To Whom It May Concern:

We have received your request for additional documentation to remove any restricted access which has been placed on our account. Your request was carefully considered. However, we regret we are unable to submit copies of invoices from our supplier(s) without first having a Nondisclosure Agreement from your firm.

Additionally, the privacy of our customers, suppliers, and any third parties, which we might conduct business, is very important to us. We are currently reviewing any Privacy or Confidentiality Agreement we have with our supplier(s) to make sure there is not a breach of contract providing this information to your firm.

With your cooperation of providing us with a Nondisclosure Agreement we will provide the requested documentation. Otherwise we would regrettably have to request our account be formally closed and the remaining balance be returned. You may deduct any monies owed to Ebay, Inc. providing an invoice is submitted along with your instrument.

Thank you for your efforts in resolving this matter.

Sincerely,

Nathan Wilson

Well, so is this guy… I found this listed on craigslist while apartment hunting in New Orleans.

$540 / 1br – Live Near the Levee

I couldn’t think of anywhere else I would rather live.

Should you grow tired of waiting on the people at cPanel to figure this whole Apache 2 thing out and, decide in the mean time you will update to Edge; You are about to go for a ride around the Internet, My Friend.

Getting cPanel to cooperate with Apache 2 is a choir in itself but; Getting Apache2 to work with Ruby on Rails is another ride around the Information Super Highway.

Using easyapache after updating to Edge was only successful for me until after I reinstalled CentOS on the VPS; Along with a fresh installation of cPanel. I opted this easy way out after I had spent hours with easyapache trying to install Apache 2 for whatever reason it wanted to try interpreting the settings from my old httpd.conf to the new httpd.conf. It either didn’t like the modules or it didn’t like the configuration or every single time I tried there was something not going right.

After reinstalling my VPS and cPanel running easyapache from Edge was a success the first time. However, this was a false hope. Upon trying to install Ruby on Rails using FastCGI with Apache 2 I didn’t find much documentation or, enough to keep me from seeing the alternative to mod_fastcgi. The alternative I came across was Mongrel which required Apache to rely on mod_proxy to control this traffic accordingly.

Apache does not include this module by default and, cPanel doesn’t give you the option to include mod_proxy as a shared module when using easyapache.

My suggestion is; You should run easyapache with the minimum amount of inclusions from easyapache to ensure the transition will not have hiccups. Once you have gotten Apache 2 working via easyapache; Download the same version of httpd from the Apache Web Site and mirror the options which easyapache made during your initial Apache 2 setup and include mod_proxy as a shared module (--enable-mods-shared="") Using apxs to compile the module didn’t seem to get the job done.

Some of the modules can’t be included during Apache’s build so I had to use apxs for some of the modules required by Mongrel. Below is what I used to recompile Apache.

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2_2 --sysconfdir=/usr/local/apache/conf --enable-so --enable-dav --enable-dav-fs --enable-dav-lock --enable-suexec --with-suexec-logfile=/usr/local/apache/logs/suexec_log --with-suexec-caller=nobody --with-suexec-uidmin=100 --with-suexec-gidmin=100 --with-suexec-docroot=/ --with-suexec-userdir=public_html --enable-logio --enable-ssl --enable-rewrite --with-ssl=/usr --enable-unique-id --enable-deflate --enable-auth-anon --enable-headers --enable-mods-shared="proxy proxy_http proxy_connect headers deflate"

You will need to use apxs to install both proxy_balancer_module and proxy_http_module. Which requires downloading this file and including the location of libxml2 when you compile it.

# ./apxs -c -I/usr/include/libxml2 -i mod_proxy_html.c

Check /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf to make sure if the module was loaded and it included libxml2. Here is a sample of what it should look like.

LoadFile /usr/lib64/libxml2.so
LoadModule proxy_html_module modules/mod_proxy_html.so

You will also need to use apxs for proxy_balancer.

# ./apxs -i -a -c mod_proxy_balancer.c

Now restart Apache if there aren’t any errors, Start working on Mongrel. I will include instructions for that tomorrow.

Technorati Tags: cPanel – Apache – Ruby – Rails – Tutorial – Howto

I think everyone is sick of having to checkout the Support Forums to get insight about updates, release dates, things of that nature.

Can we get a Blog please? I think everyone has waited long enough.

Apache 2… How about it? Anyday now?

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Ok, so the people responsible for digg.com need to get it together. I can appreciate the idea behind digg.com. I think it is a great site however, is there any who manages the site? I don’t think anyone behind digg actually looks at the content submitted by members. It has turned into Lord Of The Flies.

I think what was meant to be social networking has become what I like to call ‘ digg Wars’ everyone wants to be digg President. Anything that can be accessed from a web browser it  will have get a digg sooner or later.

Examples:

• SantaSnaps: A Cool Photo Booth close with a Christmas twist!
• PirateReports revokes vBulletin license of HongFire.com for “moral reasons”
• Typo on Macbook Keyboard?I just noticed this on my replacement keyboard – Apple made a typo while making their keyboards? :o
• Teens Build Fully-Functional LEGO Record Player

It usually takes me 10-15 pages of this kind of stuff before I find something that is halfway interesting. I really don’t feel like weeding threw these posts anymore.

Technorati Tags: Digg – Internet – Web – Web2.0 – Tools – Random – Bitch

This kind of old but, it always makes me laugh.

bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?
BritneySpears14: Aight.
bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.
bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.
bloodninja: Me too baby.
BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.
bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears14: Hey…
bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 chicken of the Infinite.
BritneySpears14: Funny I still don’t see it.
bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty F*ck of the Beyondness.
BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.
bloodninja: Don’t f*ck with me bitch, I’m the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.
bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid.
BritneySpears14: Don’t ever message me again you piece of ****.
bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik’s evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it’s getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?
————–
BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready?
eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I’m ready.
BritneySpears14: I like your music Em… Tee hee.
eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies.
BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you.
BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique.
eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again.
eminemBNJA: Oh ****
BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I’m gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you f*ck up.
eminemBNJA: Oh ****
eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something

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