While testing the upcoming WordPress 2.3 I noticed that I had a problem with he localization. Defining the language with WPLANG had no effects and all the text were in English as they should have been in Finnish. I installed another instance of WordPress 2.2.3 and the problem was still there.… Continue reading →

After updating to expat-2.0.1, it tells you to run revdep-rebuild -X --library=libexpat.so.0 but even after that apache2 couldn’t be started. It says that /usr/sbin/apache2 can’t find shared library libexpat.so.0. After some googling I found a message in Google Groups which deals with the problem.

The problem is that /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0.9.12 which belongs to apr-util is still broken.… Continue reading →

This article might be a bit outdated on some parts but just Google if problems arise.

SNMP and MRTG graphs

Statistics and graphs are nice way to follow what the machine is doing. Just a little bit of configuration and scripts you can use f. ex. servers’, routers’ and firewalls’ operational statistical data from their Object Identifiers (OID) with the help of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Management Information Base (MIB) which define the available OID functions.… Continue reading →

Normally putting up a web server with PHP and database is easy and the default settings are enough but sometimes there is need for tuning the performance. The server might be low on memory and the CPU and has (too) many things to handle. Also it is good to know how things work.… Continue reading →