TJ L's questions

This is on a brand new Ubuntu 14.04 Server running a standard WAMP install with Apache DAV_SVN (using LDAP Authentication) added on top of it (mapped to /svn). I was able to get everything working correctly, and tested accessing subversion via HTTP and authenticating via LDAP and had no issues.

Then, I went into /etc/network/interfaces and changed it from DHCP to use a static IP address (so the DNS server can resolve the hostname for SVN). I performed a reboot on the server, and afterwards any attempt to access /svn result in a 500 error (AFTER providing ldap authentication credentials) - however accessing just / returns the default apache page correctly.

However, there is no record of a 500 error in error.log, so I have no way to debug what the error is. I'm not sure if the error is with communicating the credentials to LDAP, with SVN, Apache or what.

Update

I was able to confirm that going back to DHCP allows SVN to work again, however I need a static IP so I can use hostname routing for SVN - using a dynamic IP for a repository will create a management mess.

error.log

[Fri Feb 06 10:17:37.915182 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1090] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 10:17:37.915260 2015] [core:notice] [pid 1090] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 10:19:45.681937 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1090] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 10:19:46.786369 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1987] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 10:19:46.786434 2015] [core:notice] [pid 1987] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 10:19:48.285095 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1987] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 10:19:49.398153 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 2074] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 10:19:49.398214 2015] [core:notice] [pid 2074] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 10:41:45.351303 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 2074] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 10:41:46.517131 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3665] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 10:41:46.517209 2015] [core:notice] [pid 3665] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 10:42:41.050821 2015] [dav:error] [pid 3669] [client 192.168.12.162:59312] Could not fetch resource information.  [301, #0]
[Fri Feb 06 10:42:41.050932 2015] [dav:error] [pid 3669] [client 192.168.12.162:59312] Requests for a collection must have a trailing slash on the URI.  [301, #175002]
[Fri Feb 06 10:46:13.366128 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3665] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 10:46:14.514782 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3738] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 10:46:14.514837 2015] [core:notice] [pid 3738] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 10:56:37.258172 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3738] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 11:09:35.552252 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1526] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 11:09:35.558499 2015] [core:notice] [pid 1526] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 11:21:48.478383 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1526] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 11:22:06.006478 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1067] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 11:22:06.007231 2015] [core:notice] [pid 1067] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Feb 06 11:41:32.208255 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1067] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 06 11:41:33.396579 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1392] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) SVN/1.8.8 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 06 11:41:33.396643 2015] [core:notice] [pid 1392] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

I am currently using cifs to mount some network shares (that require authentication) in /etc/fstab. It works excellently, but I would like to move the authentication details (username/pass) outside of fstab and be able to chmod it 600 (as fstab can have issues if I were to change its permissions). I was wondering if it is possible to do this (many-user system, don't want these permissions to be viewable by all users).

from:

//server/foo/bar /mnt/bar cifs username=user,password=pass,r 0 0

to:

//server/foo/bar /mnt/bar cifs <link to permissions>,r 0 0

(or something analogous to this). Thanks.

I am trying to convert user profiles in Windows Server 2000 from using an Active Directory authentication to using local machine authentication (it's currently on an AD network that is deprecated and being removed). The thing being that I need to maintain all of the user Documents and Settings information (including username and password to login), just change it to never use the AD login and just authenticate locally. I am not extremely proficient at Windows Server (more of a linux guy) and didn't see any relevant options in the "Users and Passwords" panel. Thanks for any help.

PS: I wasn't sure if this should be in SF or SU, but figured since it was dealing with AD it would be a better fit here, let me know if you think I should move it there instead.

I'm trying to configure Apache as an in-network webserver, and am using the sites-available/sites-enabled feature as opposed to just static vhost files. I set up a couple VirtualHosts, all with a unique DocumentRoot, however request for all the VirtualHosts just serve up the "It's Working!" default file. I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't serve the content out of the correct directory. Here's the contents of the virtualhost directive files, let me know if I need to post more.

default (note that apache renames this to 000-default in sites-enabled, so it's not an ordering issue)

NameVirtualHost *:80
ServerName emp

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 ServerName emp
 DocumentRoot /var/www

 <Directory />
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
 </Directory>
 <Directory /var/www/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
 </Directory>

 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
 <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
  AllowOverride None
  Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
 </Directory>

 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

 # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
 # alert, emerg.
 LogLevel warn

 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

billmed

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName billmed.emp
 ServerRoot /home/empression/Projects/billmed/web/httpdocs

 <Directory "/home/empression/Projects/billmed/web/httpdocs">
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from All
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Note that I have DNS zones for both emp and billmed.emp, as well as entries in /etc/hosts. My ultimate goal is to set up this machine as an in-house webserver with a custom tld (emp), but progress has been pretty slow.

Some more info

/etc/hosts entries

#custom-sites
192.168.1.100 emp
192.168.1.100 billmed.emp

ports.conf

# If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also
# have to change the VirtualHost statement in
# /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
# This is also true if you have upgraded from before 2.2.9-3 (i.e. from
# Debian etch). See /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/NEWS.Debian.gz and
# README.Debian.gz

#NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    # If you add NameVirtualHost *:443 here, you will also have to change
    # the VirtualHost statement in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
    # to <VirtualHost *:443>
    # Server Name Indication for SSL named virtual hosts is currently not
    # supported by MSIE on Windows XP.
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

ls -l sites-enabled

empression@empression-server1:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ ls -l ../sites-enabled/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2010-05-22 12:36 000-default -> ../sites-available/default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2010-05-22 13:33 billmed -> ../sites-available/billmed

Update 2010-06-16

I wasn't able to work on this for a few weeks, but I have tried all the solutions posted below as of now, and am still unable to fix the problem so I have added a bounty.

Update

Here's the output of apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

empression@empression-server1:~$ apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Mon Jul 12 14:29:01 2010] [warn] NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80 has no VirtualHosts
VirtualHost configuration:
192.168.1.100:80       is a NameVirtualHost
         default server billmed.emp (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/billmed:1)
         port 80 namevhost billmed.emp (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/billmed:1)
Syntax OK

I'm trying to setup a DNS server on an Ubuntu Server machine (10.04). I configured an entry in named.conf.local to test it, but when trying to restart bind9 I get the following error:

 * Starting domain name service... bind9                                 [fail]

So I checked the output of syslog and this is what I get.

May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: starting BIND 9.7.0-P1 -u bind
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: built with '--prefix=/usr' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc/bind' '--localstatedir=/var' '--enable-threads' '--enable-largefile' '--with-libtool' '--enable-shared' '--enable-static' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-gssapi=/usr' '--with-gnu-ld' '--with-dlz-postgres=no' '--with-dlz-mysql=no' '--with-dlz-bdb=yes' '--with-dlz-filesystem=yes' '--with-dlz-ldap=yes' '--with-dlz-stub=yes' '--with-geoip=/usr' '--enable-ipv6' 'CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing -DDIG_SIGCHASE -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions' 'CPPFLAGS='
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: adjusted limit on open files from 1024 to 1048576
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: found 4 CPUs, using 4 worker threads
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: using up to 4096 sockets
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: /etc/bind/named.conf:10: missing ';' before 'include'
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: loading configuration: failure
May 20 18:11:13 empression-server1 named[4700]: exiting (due to fatal error)

So it thinks I have an error in the default named.conf file, which is pretty ridiculous. I went through it and deleted a blank line just for the hell of it, but I can't see how it figures there's an error in there. Note that before this I did have an error in named.conf.local, but it showed up properly in syslog and I fixed it, so it is reporting the correct file. Here is the contents of named.conf:

// This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server named.
//
// Please read /usr/share/doc/bind9/README.Debian.gz for information on the 
// structure of BIND configuration files in Debian, *BEFORE* you customize 
// this configuration file.
//
// If you are just adding zones, please do that in /etc/bind/named.conf.local
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones";

An executive asked me to do some research on backup solutions for him and some other executives. Currently they have been using Norton Ghost to image their computers to an external HD, which is a PITA for people not technically savvy. We have an in-house backup solution we use for some of our machines, but it is designed around storing the data on our servers, which they don't want.

I was wondering what programs other people have used to incrementally backup their PC's.

Requirements

• Relatively easy to use/configure
• Incrementally backup files (e.g. only changed files).
• Can be used with any drive (e.g. not network or cloud based)
• Not a drive imaging program (e.g. Norton Ghost, PING)

Useful Features

• Can be scheduled to run at regular times automatically
• File encryption

Thanks for any advice.