Excluding directories in AJP ProxyPass
Feb/100
Configuring Apache with Tomcat
You might have ProxyPass configured to pass all requests to Tomcat. However its better to serve some content directly from Apache for speed – images for instance. If you arrange your site into a well planned folder structure you can exclude certain folders in proxy_ajp.conf.
You might have this:
ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/
Just add this line BEFORE the catch-all above:
ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/
The file is parsed in order, so the exclude must come first.
Watch out for more Tomcat tips and tricks in the future. Information on our market leading Tomcat hosting can be found here
UK Internet Governance Forum
Feb/100
Internet Governance Forum
2020Media attended the recent UK internet governance forum, held at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills on 3rd February.
The meeting brought together reports from the international Sharm El Sheikh meeting, and discussed the future of the IGF. Chaired by a cross-party group of MPs, the meeting attracted representatives, from amongst others, Nominet, Childnet, LINX, Internet Safety groups and regional goverment.
Although 2020Media is a small part of the internet in the UK, we believe participation in events like the UK Internet Governance Forum is important. At the moment, we are lucky enough that we as ordinary users and businesses can have a say in the governance and direction of internet strategy so it’s essential that we exercise that right.
One of the sections focussed on GreenIT, which we promote through EcoServ, a division offering highly efficient dedicated servers and virtualisation technology.
2020Media IPv6 rollout plans
Jan/100
2020Media has begun its roll out of IPv6 address space.
Our IPv6 range, 2a00:19e8::/32 is now active and our technical staff have received RIPE training.
A /32 by the way equates to a mind-boggling number of internet IP addresses – 18,446,744,073,709,552,000! Customers can expect to receive /64 addresses (2ˆ64 ip numbers).
For an overview of our plans, see: www.2020media.com/ipv6
the RIPE IPv6 Training Course
New internet addresses – IPv6
Jan/100
The imminent end of the Internet as we know it approaches – our IPv4 addresses are running out fast. Less than 10% of the original 4 billion remain. Internet service providers will have to ration their stocks of existing address blocks and growth will become more difficult.
The solution? IPv6 addresses are plentiful and easy to obtain. The problem is that the transition is already years behind of schedule.
Having completed internal testing and analysis, we’re delighted to announce that 2020Media will be rolling out IPv6 in 2010 to both hosting and broadband customers.
Problems still exist though: For instance, at the time of writing, there are NO consumer broadband modems that support IPv6. And of the top 500 websites (tracked by Alexa), only 1 supports Ipv6.
So even if you can get connected via IPv6, chances are you won’t be able to see any websites!
2020Media is participating in an ISOC project to map and present data on the takeup of IPv6 by the worlds leading websites and companies. More information on our plans.
What is a QR Code?
Dec/093
Google recently sent out 100,000 stickers to selected US businesses for use on their storefront windows. The stickers have the Google Maps logo and a QR (Quick Reference) code that can be scanned by smart phone cameras and display Google listings for the business on the phone screen.
Point your QR Code reader at this
A camera is often included in mobile phones, portable gaming devices and PDAs, so rather than laboriously copy down the details, these 2D bar codes provide a quick way to transfer simple information.
You can generate your own bar codes at the QR-Code Generator website. To read them, you’ll need an application linked to your camera. Try search your ‘phone’s application store, or take a look on google for QR Code reader
How DNS works
Dec/090
Video on How DNS Works
If you’ve ever wondered how DNS works, and the technical explanations make your head spin, there’s a great new video on YouTube that cuts out the jargon and shows you what happens when you type a domain name into your browser, or send an email.
The video was produced by CENTR, a european trade association for all the european domain registries.
If you’re interested in getting more domain names, in different extensions, 2020Media is able to obtain them for you. Contact us, and we’ll be able to help.
New top level domains
Nov/090
ICANN is introducing a range of new top level domains (think .com, .net, .org) which will be open to anyone who cares to think of one. So far suggestions have varied from geo-domains like .paris, .london and .nyc, to topics like .eco, .food and .music.
When these new domains come along, will they be useful? The argument often given is that you replace the three meaningless characters to the right of the dot, namely com or net, with characters that actually provide guidance to the user about what will be found at the web site using that TLD (think .music, .london).
The gTLD process is bogged down at the moment, but ICANN have announced that country code domains (like .cn, .ru) will be translated into their own native character sets. This has been on the cards for a long time and its great to see it should soon be a reality.
Peering into the future
Nov/090
.uk registrar conference
2020Media took part in the 2009 Nominet registrar conference today. The event was held at Lords cricket ground (some kind of sports theme going on as last year it was a Wembley stadium). Amongst the many debates that took place, the most interesting speaker was Bill Thompson, a leading technology writer, who spoke of the need to continually change, in order to keep up with the way the internet evolves.
Although 2020Media is very well established in internet terms and is now 10 years old, we never forget how we gained our place in the UK internet marketplace and continually try to improve and involve the services that we offer. A good place to check out the latest products is at our Offers page.
Are you European (yet)?
Oct/090
With the Lisbon Treaty about to be ratified, is it time you looked at getting your name or company brand in .eu? The .eu domain was launched in 2006 and is now an established domain extension. Here in the UK there are about 300,000 .eu domains registered which means there’s still plenty of choice, unlike .co.uk and .com.
Your European Identity
Other interesting statistics include that the domain has an 81% renewal rate, which indicates its established nature, and 75% of .eu domains have an active website or email.
Even if you don’t look to expand into Europe in the near future, it’s worth looking at registering your name or brand now, as the registry is still growing so choice is falling.
Tales from the Helldesk
Oct/090
Not sure if this qualifies as urban legend or not:
A phone call was received from a customer wanting to know why they were unable to log in to the computer system – The nice old lady was asked if she could go to the server to check it and nice as pie she said “oh no, we’ve been flooded, it’s under 3ft of water”
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