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
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.
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.
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”
From TheRegister
Internet Updates
Sep/090
Network Meeting
Last week we had the opportunity to catch up with our fellow network operators. Amongst the interesting topics discussed were IP address depletion updates – suggestions that broadband providers might NAT their entire customer bases!
As most users have NAT on their broadband already, this effectively means double NAT – if you rely on a fixed IP address to the outside world, this has major consequences.
If you’re one of our broadband customers, we’d like to hear what you think. Let us know.
We also enjoyed a humourous talk on care of fibre optic cables. Unfortunately the detailed warnings on only using specialised cleaning equipment costing thousands of dollars was left a little deflated after a quick wipe on someone’s jeans gave excellent results!
From dirty to clean via trousers
Wiki time
Jul/090
MediaWiki Logo
A Wiki is a collaborative website that can be edited by multiple people, usually without having to log in. The encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis. Ward Cunningham described a wiki as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.
We’ve recently started a documentation project here at 2020Media. We started out using Wordpress, but we’re now trying out a Wiki. Wordpress has some advantages like alerting the administrator when comments are made to articles, but the Wiki approach allows us to quickly add new pages and content in the shortest possible time.
As we’re already familiar with Wikipedia (it’s so well ranked on Google it must make the SEO ‘experts’ green with envy) we decided to use the same free software, MediaWiki.
If you’re thinking about a new website, take a look at wikis. 2020Media have hosting plans that are perfect for any wiki website.
2020Media launches Green Hosting service
Jul/090
Green Server Hosting
EcoServ is a new service from 2020Media, an established UK hosting provider. We use new technologies to lower the environmental cost of server hosting, without sacrificing any of the essential services – power, ping and support. The server we use consumes less electricity than 40W light bulb!
How to reset Joomla and Wordpress passwords
Jul/090
Joomla
Using any MySQL admin tool, (PHPMyAdmin), run the following query, entering your own choice of password:
UPDATE jos_users SET password = MD5("new-password") WHERE jos_users.username = "admin";
If you’re using a different username to admin, change as appropriate.
If this doesn’t work, try changing jos_users to mos_users.
Wordpress
If you know your username and the email account in your profile, you can use the “lost password” function -
- Go to your Wordpress Login page (something like http://yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-login.php)
- Click on lost password
If you can’t use this method, here’s how to do it in MySQL.
Using any MySQL admin tool, (PHPMyAdmin), run the following query, entering your own choice of password.
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = MD5("new-password") WHERE wp_users.user_login = "admin";
Notes: You must have access to your database. If you don’t, pass these instructions on to someone that does.
Telehouse West Progress
Jun/090
The construction of the newest central london datacentre, Telehouse West, is well underway.
We don’t have to visit the datacentre very frequently, but when we do we’ve been taking the odd photo of the construction work. As you can see, the progress of the build has been impressively fast.
Once complete, this datacentre will be one of the Greenest around. Waste heat (and there’s a lot of that in a datacentre) from the $180 million Telehouse colocation facility will be used in a district heat network for the local Docklands community. It also features solar cells on the roof to help with the massive electricity costs.
They have provided a live feed from two webcams so you can watch diggers and cranes all day if you want.
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