Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Sometimes we cant reach a site or server even though it is up due to networking issues. Traceroute is a tool that lets you diagnostic this type of issues.
Including a traceroute report from your pc to the site/server when you open a helpdesk ticket will help the technical support technicians to pin point the problem and resolve it quickly.
This is how you can perform traceroute from windows:
Step 1:
Click on Start > Run.
Step 2:
In the Run window type cmd and click OK.
Step 3:
In te command prompt type tracert domain.com and hit ENTER.
Replace domain.com with your target site or host.
This will give ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
SourceForge.net has approved my 1st open source project. =D
Well... its actually a very simple thing though. But still working on SF.net excites me. Hope ill get to learn project/tracker management while working on it. And if not anything... ill just get the taste of SF.net which will help me with future "real" projects.
Subject: SourceForge.net Project Approved
Your project registration for SourceForge.net has been approved.
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Over a post in Google Webmaster Central Blogs Vanessa Fox stated that when your site goes down for maintenance tou should configure your server to return a status of 503 (network unavailable) rather than 200 (successful). This lets Googlebot know to try the pages again later.
Searching for how i can make my Apache webserver return the 503 - Service Unavailable status code for a particular site on a shared hosting environment i found the following solution over http://wiki.splitbrain.org/503.sh
To return 503 (Service Unavailable) status on Apache Web Server:
Step 1:
Create the following shellscript named 503.sh:
#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF
Status: 503
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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