mkdir /where/you/wantemcd /source/dir find * -type d -exec mkdir /where/you/wantem/\{\} \;
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‘No input file specified.’ error + solution
I created a test web site on my VPS, and like before, the way I would get to it was onsen.ca/~sitename . However this resulted in an error message “No input file specified. ”
Googling the problem resulted in no solution. Several site installs also resulted in no solution.
So I decided to try an older test site (djhanged) which I used to access at onsen.ca/~djhanged. It also didn’t work. This must be something to do with the DNS entries.
So I decided to use the VPS IP instead of onsen.ca. It worked.
I can now again access my test sites.
Enable IonCube loader
I love it when things are simple.
To install IonCube loading in cPanel, run the following as root:
# /scripts/phpextensionmgr install IonCubeLoader
You can then check if ionCube was installed by running:
# php -v
photo website update
I’ve updated my photo.onsendesigns.com site a few times, but I’m still not happy with the way it’s setup. Initially I had a wordpress blog and ZPgallery as the gallery. I didn’t like that setup because while I made two themes to maintain the look between the blog and gallery, I didn’t want to be creating themes every time I wanted to change themes.
So I changed entirely to ZPgallery (which now has rudimentary blogging features thanx to ZPage) in order to maintain only one theme, but I’m not happy with the the theme selection for ZPGallery.
So I’m thinking of changing things up again. Reinstall wordpress and ZP gallery. Showcase all the work in wordpress (there’s some nice photo-blog themes out there) and keep zpgallery as the backend which is not used to show anything, just serve up images.
Will setup this arrangement on a test server to see how it look.
Software I’m not happy with: and what I plan on doing about it
The need to innovate and improve is certainly consistent with my personality 🙂
Two pieces of software I’m not 100% happy with, but have no alternatives: except to write my own. (actually there’s probably more, but only these two I’ve given serious thought about pursuing)
NAS Solution
One is a free/open source NAS solution that is OS independent. I know of FreeNAS and OpenFiler but both are plagued by the same disease. Extremely slow support and very infrequent updates.
I’d like to put together an OS independent linux file server front-end. Building on what webmin has done (maybe just a webmin plugin that consolidates all the file-sharing tools in one location). Building on webmin would be easy as it’s already making use of all the tools that are required to manage a file server (though the webmin interface is not particularly oriented to file server management).
The other tool I am not happy with is ZenPhoto. I’m not happy with it due to its very limited selection of themes. WordPress has endless theme selection but (compared to ZenPhoto) poor photo mamagement tools. I love the photo management tools in ZenPhoto. If somehow WordPress and ZenPhoto could be merged in a seamless manner I’d be thrilled; unfortunately I haven’t found such a solution yet. There are some plugins out there for wordpress to bring in photos from ZenPhoto, but it’s cumbersome.
I really like that (in ZepPress) all I need to do is FTP some photos in a folder and they get posted on the ZenPhoto site. No extra messing with front end interface to import or set up albums. The file/folder structure is reflected in the structure of the image folders/sub-folders. I like that.
Photo Gallery/Blog
Part of what I want is a web-gallery and blog to have the same theme allow for seamless navigation from blog to gallery and back. Also having to manage two separate systems (zen photo for photos and wordpress for blog) is more time consuming. I have used the ZepPage features of ZenPhoto, (to integrate the blog in ZenPhoto) but there are only 1/2 dozen themes available for zenpage enables sites.
I know I could just write a theme to my liking for ZenPhoto/ZenPage, but if I’m going to do some coding, I’d prefer to do some higher level stuff, where ANY theme could be used, hence using wordpress as the frontend, and work on integrating zenphoto photo management into wordpress.
web file explorer
Found an awesome web file explorer for. I had been looking for a while, found some programs which did the job, but wasn’t thrilled about and today I came across ajaxplorer.
This project looks sweet. Will be deploying it soon on my server.
OpenFiler challenges (and solutions)
I’ve been having trouble getting samba shares to work.
This may help:
https://lists.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?id=6031
Had trouble connecting a LDAP explorer/browser to the Openfiler LDAP server.
Figured it out.
IP: Openfiler’s IP
Port: 389
user: cn=Manager,dc=openfiler,dc=nas
password: ‘password in openfiler’s LDAP screen’
base dn: dc=openfiler,dc=nas
To Change home FTP folder: Login in with any LDAP explorer/browser (I use JXPlorer) and navigate to the user. In the user view, change the attribure homeDirectory to whatever folder you want. (currently set to /mnt/storage_vg/data/incoming/)
video capture software
Keep this link around for it may come in useful someday:
http://www.geeksdesk.com/free-video-capture-software/
Awesome and free wordpress themes
Xenserver reading
http://www.xendesktopmaster.com/how-to-add-an-additional-local-disk-to-your-xenserver-5-5-host/
http://www.ruslansivak.com/2010/3/29/XenServer-55–Converting-Local-Storage-to-ext3-and-thereby-enabling-sparse-provisioning
http://www.schirmacher.de/display/INFO/How+to+add+additional+disks+to+XenServer+host
Adding removable drives
http://kiekeboe100.hoefman.be/blog/2009/06/attaching-disk-to-xenserver-guest/
http://everyrandom.com/blog/?p=89