Archive for August, 2010

Changing Report Server URL in DFS

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 17 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: How To

Adenium Systems tech support recommended that an internal URL for the DFS report server is used as opposed to an external one. This is likely due to increased performance in accessing the URL. To change this URL, open Library Manager and right click on the Library and then select the option to edit. Go to [...]

Setting Up URL Rewriting for Apache in Linux

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 17 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: How To

Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL’s are very common today with the widespread use of content management systems (CMS). These are URL’s that look like http://www.website.com/about as opposed to the conventional http://www.website.com/about.html. An SEF URL in a CMS would replace something like http://www.website.com?id=34. The advantages of SEF over conventional URL’s is that they are shorter and [...]

How to Start, Stop, and Restart Apache in Linux

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: How To

At various times, you will need to manually start and stop Apache. This could be due to making changes in the httpd.conf file which requires a restart, or the web server could be experiencing problems. You can perform these commands in a Linux terminal with httpd. To start Apache, type /etc/init.d/httpd start To stop Apache, [...]

Display a List of Installed Modules in Apache

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: How To

If your having problems with a feature in Apache, such as URL rewriting, you can check if the rewrite_module was installed. The following procedure works on a Linux terminal with Apache 2.x. httpd –l Lists compiled (static) modules. httpd –M Lists shared/dynamic modules. You can also use apachectl –D DUMP_MODULES.

Set Windows Workgroup in Linux

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 06 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: How To

A Linux computer can connect to a Windows network through Samba, which can be easily in installed in Fedora and other distributions. You will need to enter the workgroup that the Windows network uses in order to connect to it. This information can be entered in the smb.conf file found at /etc/samba. You can edit [...]

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