I didn't know ripping Wall-E would be so hard. http://bit.ly/18hgV 10 hrs ago
This somewhat requires you’ve followed my suggestions on not committing yourself to a certain host or your own DNS or mail servers, if not the extra steps might take you 10 more minutes, maybe days.
There are plenty of ways to migrate to a new server depending on how you’ve setup the server or your host, these are just to show the simplicity of my migrations after following the post linked above.
Step 1:
Rsync your other server’s files to the new…
Even though today was a half day, a Friday and I was able to play golf I still can’t shake how today was one of the worst days ever at work. A couple people made it clear to me that they do not respect my job as a system administrator when they told me to give some clueless employee *root* access to the webserver because he was “inconvenienced” when file permissions were limiting him to overwrite some html files. Tempers…
One of my tasks this week was to setup a web server for some sites currently hosted on the tragedy of the grid. I don’t want to talk about the (mt) grid since I’ve said so much about it before but to answer “why?” I’m still on the grid for production sites is, I’ve been too busy to migrate them and at one point I was going to put them on a spry VPS but my DB was too large for their…
Permissions on webservers are a hassle if not setup correctly. It’s one thing to setup everyone with their own group if they aren’t going to be editing each others files but in an environment with multiple editors it’s not a good idea, IMO.
The best way I’ve found so far to clean up my permissions, with the help of Qunu.com, was the find command.
# find /path/to/dir -user [username] -group [groupname] -exec chown newown.newgroup {} \;
and then I need to make sure…
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