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Dreams Really Do Come True
My Dad walked into my nerd cave and saw it. His response: “Oh. My. God.” Not the “this is totally awesome” OMG, but the “what the hell is wrong with you?” OMG. What was it that I had done? Did I take a sledge hammer to my computers? Did I paint the room pink? Did I take a crap on the floor? No! I built a server rack:
In living room, after assembly
Since I love being at work so much, I decided to make my house look like it. Who needs peace and quiet when you can have 2 80mm fans roaring away? It’s the way computing should be.
So maybe this time I’ll learn…
If there’s anybody out there reading this (yeah, right) who has worked with WordPress before probably knows about permalinks. They’re those handly little URLs that look like “http://www.sector930.com/01/01/foo-bar” instead of “http://www.sector930.com/?p=666″. We gave permalinks a shot a little while ago, but we noticed it was breaking all the links to individual articles. So we put it on the backburner for a while.
Today I decided to give it another go. The steps involved look something like this:
- Ensure mod_rewrite Apache module is installed
- Enable FollowSymLinks in httpd.conf
- Put AllowOverride FileInfo in httpd.conf
Welcome to the new sector930.com
Well, we decided to make the move. Edwin’s host checking thingy was telling us that our hold hosting service, Bluehost, kept going down during the day. My RootBSD server, on the other hand, had excellent uptime. So after the email equivalent of a huddle, we agreed: adios Bluehost.
I had written a good post in anticipation of our easy transition and great success. Alas, that was not to be. I jumped the gun with changing the DNS, and Joe couldn’t export the old blog. So we all learned some lessons from the experience.
- Backup your shit before you do ANYTHING.