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PHP GD

Wed, 04/07/2010 - 19:36

Issues were found with GD in my PHP installation - basically it was installed, but not linked properly
This is the error that I kept receiving - mainly noticed after doing a system update.
error while loading shared libraries: libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Doing the following solved the issue for me.

cd /usr/local/lib
sudo cp libgd.so.2.0.0 libgd.so.2.0.0.broken
sudo ln -f /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.0 libgd.so.2.0.0
sudo apache2ctl restart

Also found that I needed to create another link.
sudo ln /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libgd.so

Link to UbuntuForums for the help
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-252842.html

HP LaserJet 1020 USB Printer

Wed, 04/07/2010 - 19:35

Back a few years ago I got this great deal on a laser printer, an entry level one, but better than an old failing ink jet.

Getting this setup on a server is really simple. Just have to run this from the terminal.
sudo hp-setup -a -i
Follow the prompts, essentially pressing Enter a few times
If you're running a GUI then running sudo hp-setup starts the setup wizard and prompts you for additional information.

Happy Printing

Apache2 Bandwidth Limit

Wed, 04/07/2010 - 19:33

Download and install the Bandwidth Module from the links below or the attached file.

Unpack
tar -zxf mod_bw-0.8_0.tgz
cd mod_bw
sudo apxs2 -i -a -c mod_bw.c

Then add this to your apache2.conf
LoadModule bw_module mod_bw.so
and this to your VirtualHost / enabled site

BandwidthModule On
ForceBandWidthModule On
LargeFileLimit .mp3 1 15000

I did mine to limit the speed of MP3 downloads to reduce the total server connection speed, but you can limit everything if you're needing to.
Bandwidth all 10240
MinBandwidth all -1

Note - you must have apxs2 installed to make this work, installed with this:
sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev

Found at either location, or attached here
http://www.ivn.cl/apache/
http://bwmod.sourceforge.net/

What Makes SSarge.net Tick?

Sun, 03/28/2010 - 21:38

So I've recently rebuilt my server after loosing a 500GB backup drive; which after trying to recover the data somehow destroyed the ability to mount or even format any other drives... Yes I know having a single backup drive isn't the smartest.

Now I've got things setup in a nice mirror, with another backup drive ready and another that I will be using as an image drive.
I'm also setting up another server to be used as data/media storage. Nothing special, and not much space, but secure. I've got 4 80GB drives installed with a RAID 5 setup.

Main server is running a standard LAMP (Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) setup, along with mail and print. Configured as the internet gateway/firewall, along with everything else, its back up running stable... Now there's just some reconfiguring to do to make it more secure.