How to check Windows Server uptime

If you ever need to find the uptime of a Windows computer, just do the following:

Start – Run

Type: cmd

Type: systeminfo

Near the beginning you will see the uptime of the Windows computer/server.

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 9:58 pm

How to install Webmin on Gentoo

To install Webmin on a new installation of Gentoo, you can do the following:

Sync your list of available packages:

emerge –sync

Upgrade/Install Portage:

emerge portage

Install Webmin

emerge webmin

Start Webmin

/etc/init.d/webmin start

If you want Webmin to start automatically when your server/VPS boots:

eselect rc add webmin default

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 4:31 pm

Fantastico not installing (Not Installed)

Sometimes, even after we install fantastico it will show as “Not Installed”. Or during the installation itself, it may show an error message like “Buggy version of wget”.

To fix this, we need to correct the version of wget.

For 32-bit:

rpm -qa wget
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/5/i386/os/
Fedora/RPMS/wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -e wget
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -qa wget

For 64-bit:

rpm -qa wget
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/
Everything/x86_64/os/Fedora/wget-1.10.2-15.fc7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -e wget
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-15.fc7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -qa wget

Thats it!!!

Thanks for this article Gopi!

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 9:35 pm

How to disable TRACE in httpd.conf

If you need to disable TRACE in httpd.conf, you can do it using the following:

# disable TRACE
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* – [F]

What is TRACE (in apache)?

The HTTP TRACE method is described in the HTTP 1.1 standard (RFC 2616, section 9.8):

9.8 TRACE
The TRACE method is used to invoke a remote, application-layer loop-
back of the request message. The final recipient of the request
SHOULD reflect the message received back to the client as the
entity-body of a 200 (OK) response.
…
If the request is valid, the response SHOULD contain the entire
request message in the entity-body, with a Content-Type of
“message/http”. Responses to this method MUST NOT be cached.

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 8:59 pm