mt: July 2008 Archives

At last !

I found a nice and easy howto describing how to enable RSS feed per category in Movable Type version 4.x.
Here it is

This blog entry describes how to create a new template (RSS category), map it to the categories, and change the main category widget to link to it. I did the similar steps to create an atom feed for each categories.

So now you can see a small feed icon near each category name, on the main page of my blog index page.

I spent 2 hours banging my head against the wall regarding Apache RewriteRule. What I wanted was simple :

• Redirect every http:// URLs to https://
• Except if it's the atom or RSS URL
• Redirect the https://.*atom.xml or rss URL to http://

And I failed. I couldn't make a pattern that says : "that doesn't end with atom.xml" or similar...

So I ended up with a compromise : only redirect /cgi-bin/mt URLs to https://. It works but I'm not quite satisfied. I'll give it another try later

The server I'm paying for (dedibox) crashed for unknown reason, I had to reinstall it. Luckilly enough I could boot in rescue mode and archive my important data, it helped to get everything up and running again, or at least the important bits (gentoo, apache, this blog, postgresql)

The newest addition on this server :

• squid to act as proxy
• backup-manager as a backup solution

backup-manager is not very powerful, but it's small, light and simple to install and configure. All you need is Perl and gettext :) It'll do until I migrate to bacula.