It’s been a while since I configured the latest Dynamic Mass Virtual Hosting Server. Last time I used mod_vhost_alias to create a dynamic virtual hosting and it worked without any problem for what we need in that time. Then we didn’t care about the ftp and virtual users, the sites was updated from web pages and security was pretty much handled by upload application who managed the virtual hosting. Now, the problem is a little bit changed: We need a secure sever which should support ftp virtual users with quota …

Why you choose SNMP when Glassfish have strong JMX support? I presume, the answer for all who use SNMP is (almost) the same: Because the architecture of current monitoring solution is not scalable enough, and I cannot load my monitoring servers with supplementary JAVA processes.

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This, probably, is a bug which was not spotted very often because is very obscure and the Debian guys moved very quick and fixed the problem. I know, I found a lot of bugs related to sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.NoSuchSymbolException: Could not find symbol “gHotSpotVMTypeEntryTypeNameOffset”, but this is different. Usually was a problem of “striping symbols from libjvm.so”, but in my case wasn’t that. Also I found this error related to OpenJDK (I use Sun JDK) and the solution was to use -server flag to get the correct libjvm.so. Anyway it took me …

Everyone, with a decent Linux security knowledge, should know about ModSecurity – Open Source Web Application Firewall. Personally, I know this mod from 2004 and it help me a lot in detecting and/or preventing malicious attacks before reaching my customers applications.

I searched over internet, on several tens of posts, to find how to delete a crashed Innodb table. Short story: I tried to import a big table but it crashed in the middle of the process (power failure). The table was not very important so I didn’t care about the table, I just want to delete it and start from the scratch, but surprise! The table cannot be deleted! I use the latest MySQL Innodb plugin from Debian backports repository (is coming with Debian 5.1.xx) with file per table …