windows

Following an install of Apache on Windows you are faced with the somewhat daunting process of wading through the httpd.conf file and deciding upon what is required for your particular circumstance.

As a matter of course, I typically save the default httpd.conf file to another name and use a vastly trimmed down variant in place thereof.

What I have pasted below represents such an example and trims the config file to a much more manageable 55-lines of code having stripped the unnecessary elements along with all of the comments.


PidFile logs/httpd.pid
Listen 80
ServerName localhost
ServerTokens Prod
ServerSignature Off
FileETag None
UseCanonicalName Off
HostnameLookups Off
AddDefaultCharset IS-8859-1
ServerAdmin webadmin@localhost
ServerRoot "c:/www/Apache22"

As somewhat a continuance from my post regarding the use 7-Zip as part of an overall backup solution therein also lies the need for a file retention strategy too.

If we simply allow the creation of daily or weekly backups to run unchecked then dependant upon the size of the archive, the frequency of the backup job and ultimately the amount of available disk space we reach some kind of threshold. This necessitates the need for a retention strategy.

When performing file compression most people instinctively refer to WinZip. Beginning with Microsoft Windows ME (who can forget that quality release!), the Windows Operating System included their own tool for file compression.

While these along with many others provide a means to an end they are all limited in one particular way or another. Enter 7-Zip!

While I myself have only been using 7-Zip for the past 2 to 3 years it has none the less been around since the latter part of 2001.

Quite some time ago I published on another site (http://www.teqhead.com) a flash-based tutorial on how to use TrueCrypt, the FREE open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

While the version I based the how-to on is a few releases behind now, the principle and the general functionality all remain the same.

You can choose to view on line by going to the following link: http://www.poscribes.com/files/truecrypt.swf

Or you can choose to download the external application for viewing in your own time, at the bottom of this post or here.

Enjoy!

Dave

In establishing a high-availability web application you need to consider multiple levels of availability and redundancy.

In this first installment discussing MySQL replication I am referring to omni-directional replication. In my follow-up on the subject, next week, we will be covering bi-directional replication or creating what is otherwise known as multi-master replication, and yes I am doing this on Microsoft Windows.