Connections bootcamp in Littleton / Boston

had the privilege to join a bootcamp in Littleton, Boston covering version 2.5 of Lotus Connections; take a look at the happy attendees – truly members of a an IT (intelligent Technology) community, as this technology is supposed to be …

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Athens

joining a critsit in a large bank in Athens – WebSphere Portal 5.1, WCM, TAM ,TDS, TDI, ESB, db2, etc. Massive performance issues caused by inadequately tuning the environment, lack of system resources – basically returned to default values following tuning guides. Primary intention was to stabilize environment, as well as providing mid- to long [...]

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steps to visualize HTTP server logging – part II

gnuplot 2d
edit /etc/apache2/mod_log_config.conf and add a new logformat (plots) – (“mod_log_config.conf” is referenced by “httpd.conf”)
LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \ \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\”” combined
LogFormat “%h %{%d.%m.%Y:%H:%M:%S}t %D %U” plots
The characteristics of the “%” directives are:
%…h Remote host
%…{format}t time & date
%…D time taken to serve the request, in microseconds.
%…U URL path requested

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SSL for wordpress login and admin section

add define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true); in wp-config.php
edit /etc/apache2/listen.conf and add NameVirtualHost *:443
add a virtualHost section to your httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot “var/local/wwwroot/bernhard/”
ServerName bernhard.hensler.net
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log
TransferLog /var/log/apache2/access_log
SSLEngine on
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+
LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.key/server.key
</VirtualHost>

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steps to visualize HTTP server logging – part I

apache
check Apache server version by creating a simple e.g. serverinfo.php file with following statement: <?php phpinfo(); ?>
and open in your browser: http://your host/serverinfo.php. Find the version info in the Apache Version section:
Apache Version – Apache/2.0.53 (Linux/SUSE)
or run from the command line:
/usr/sbin # apache2ctl -v
Server version: Apache/2.0.53
Server built: Aug 30 2006 13:14:23
h969344:/usr/sbin #
Next add [...]

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