Sander Versluys's questions

I'm using a couple of rewrite directives that always works before on apache2 but now i'm trying new a shared hosting and the rewrite rules do not seem to get applied.

I've reduced the .htaccess files to the following essential rules:

RewriteEngine On
Rewritebase /demo/

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

As you can see, i want to rewrite every request to my index.php file in the demo folder from root.

So everything like http://www.example.com/demo/albums/show/1 should be processed by http://www.example.com/demo/index.php for a standard MVC setup. (I'm using CodeIgniter btw)

The directives above results in a 500 error, so i thought maybe because of some possible syntax differences between 1.3 and 2.x.

After some trail and error editing, i've found the rewrite rule itself to be at fault but i really don't understand why.

Any ideas to why my rewrite rule doesn't work? it did before on lots of different servers. Suggestions how to fix it?

Note: mod_rewrite does work, i've written a small test to be sure

How can I ping a certain address and when found, stop pinging.

I want to use it in a bash script, so when the host is starting up, the script keeps on pinging and from the moment the host is available, the script continues...

What does a magic packet contain and what options does the protocol provide?

This is our setup:

• Windows 2008 Hyper-V
• One Windows 2008 Enterprise VM with IIS

We have a NAS which stores all the websites.

When trying to run the applications directly from the NAS we encountered security problems because of dlls which can't run directly from the the NAS.

What setup do you recommend if we want to centralize our data on the NAS but also run the websites from that location.

txn ;-)

What does "invalid procedure call" mean in IIS 7 with asp application and how to fix it?

We're running VisualSVN server on windows.

In short, what techniques are there to automatic deploy changed files to a staging server after committing?

I know there's something like SVN hooks, and while there are lots of useful hook scripts or executables hooks out there, i have not found one able to copy the changed files after a commit to a certain directory.

So my question is: what strategies can i use to automatically deploy my repository to a staging server, this especially for big websites with thousands of files, so updating a repo on the or multiple staging server(s) is rather slow.

Thanks!