This morning (since it is after midnight) I updated my Gallery install from version 1.5 to version 2 Beta 3.
The Gallery project moved to a database driven system and the administration console is a lot more accessible and easier to configure and mantain. It seems more resonsive and has a plethora of new features.
EXIF data is displayed with images, it has a crisper look and the layouts are easier to manage.
Go ahead, take a look at the new gallery.
Looks like the entirety of my website is back up! Yay!
When I moved into the new house, we had to work on a way to get my webserver accessible to the outside world, because I’m not the only person in the house with one. To that end, one of my housemates set up mod_proxy on his webserver, to forward any requests for my domain to my machine.
However, all the requests that were made ended up at my front page, and because of the way my site was laid out, that didn’t work very well (read: not at all). So, last night, I was reading through the Apache2 documentation trying to figure out what was going on, and I ran across this page, detailing mod_proxy after reading through it, I noticed the following option:
ProxyPreserveHost Off
It does what it appears to, it preserves the host name of the site you’re trying to visit when Apache does it’s proxy mojo. His door wasn’t open so I sent him an email about it, and went to bed. I wake up this morning and he’d already made the change on his router: Success!
Too bad it took me a week to read the Apache docs for mod_proxy.
Well, over the past couple of days, I’ve been working on getting Planet set up to aggregate all of my feeds into one massive feed.
Over the same time period though, I’ve been playing around with OS X Tiger’s Safari RSS, and I must say that I’m quite impressed. It lets you view feeds individually, or will aggregate them into one large, searchable and categorizable feed. It’s really pretty slick.
But, I digress, I ended up setting up a number of Planet feeds, a couple for MTU LUG and a couple for myself.
All in all, Planet is pretty cool… it has some rough edges, but it’s pretty easy to figure out once you realize where the templates are that the config files are pointing at. Now I just need to learn some CSS stuff so I can make it look better.
Well, I’ve decided to set the theme back to the WordPress default for now, mainly because of the thinness of the design I was using. It didn’t play nice with flickr-gallery which I set up last night.
On that note, last night I set up flickr-gallery on here, check it out at blog.aragirn.net/photos. It pulls the galleries off of my flickr site and displays them through the blog. It even pulls the exif data and allows you to view the albums as slideshows.
Unfortunately, the flickr-gallery project isn’t very well maintained or documented, so it took a bit of work to get it set up. Hopefully the coming revisions of the plugin address the install difficulties.
This is just a warning to everyone: aragirn.resnet.mtu.edu and most of aragirn.net’s subdomains will be going down either late on the night of the 29th or early on the 30th of this month.
They’ll remain down until approximately the 10th of May. At this time, all of aragirn.resnet.mtu.edu will be incorporated into aragirn.net (I hope).
The following pages will stay up:
All offsite links will remain active:
You can check on the status of of the site at aragirn.net/status.html.