Tim Reynolds : Mobile/Web Developer

WebDAV Breaks After Installing WordPress

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:58:18 +0000

If you are using WebDAV with WordPress then most likely the WordPress .htaccess file will break the WebDAV configuration. One basic work around for this is to turn off the Apache Rewrite Engine for the directories that you want to enable WebDAV for.

# cd into a directory within your html root where you want to enable WebDAV
$ cd /var/www/path/source

# then create a .htaccess file and disable the Rewrite Engine
$ vim .htaccess

# paste this into the vim file:


RewriteEngine Off

Then follow the same steps for any other directories you would like to enable.

Centos New MySQL Package Names and PHP/MySQL conflicts

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:26:41 +0000

I’m noticing in my version of Centos on AWS that there are new package names for the installation of mysql:

yum install MySQL-client-community MySQL-devel-community MySQL-server-community

In addition there is a conflict in getting php to work with mysql.

Install the MySQL-shared-compat-5.1.47-1.rhel4.i386.rpm that resolves the need for the old mysql lib dependencies for php-mysql, install first this rpm and after this, php-mysql. So performing these yum installs should get php and mysql working:

yum install MySQL-shared-compat
yum install php-mysql

iptables firewall script for bittorrent-curses

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:14:54 +0000

This is a basic iptables firewall script for downloading bittorrents:


#!/bin/sh
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
#modprobe ip_conntrack
#modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp

# Setting default filter policy
#iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

# Unlimited access to loop back
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT

# Allow UDP, DNS and Passive FTP
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

#allow bittorent incomming client request
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6881:6999 -j ACCEPT

#Uncomment below to allow sshd incoming client request
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -dport 22 -j ACCEPT

# DROP everything and Log it
iptables -A INPUT -j LOG
#iptables -A INPUT -j DROP