dgel's questions

I have a redirect to force https:

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

Works great, but I would like to be able to hit a single text file through http using the echo module:

server {
    listen 80;

    location /ping {
        echo "http_pong";
    }

    server_name example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

Unfortunately I can never get to /ping as I get the 301 redirect instead. How can I prevent the global redirect from applying to that single location?

I am running Ubuntu server 11.04. I have created an Upstart user job as described here.

I have the following file at my /home/myuser/.init/sensors.conf:

start on started mysql
stop on stopping mysql


chdir /home/myuser/mydir/project
exec /home/myuser/mydir/env/bin/python /home/myuser/mydir/project/manage.py sensors

respawn

respawn limit 10 90

As myuser I can start, stop, and reload the job fine- it works perfectly:

$ start sensors
sensors start/running, process 1332
$ stop sensors
sensors stop/waiting

The problem is that the job is not starting automatically at boot when mysql starts. After a fresh boot, mysql is running but my sensors job is not.

What's strange, is that although the job doesn't begin on bootup, if I use sudo to restart mysql it does indeed start my job. The following commands are run as myuser from a fresh startup:

$ status sensors
sensors stop/waiting
$ sudo restart mysql
mysql start/running, process 1209
$ status sensors
sensors start/running, process 1229

The documentation for Upstart user jobs is pretty limited. What is the correct technique to have a user job start automatically on startup of the system?

I know I can just throw something in rc.local to start it, or I could move my sensors.conf to /etc/init but I'm curious if there is a way to do it using just Upstart.

When I download flowplayer locally on my machine and open index.html, the example video runs fine, no problems.

I have a linode running cherokee 1.2.2 with a basic 'List and Send' virtual server setup. If I simply download the flowplayer zip, unzip it in my virtual server's root directory, then navigate to the example directory, I see the page fine but the flash video section is just black, with no video and no controls.

I'm not changing a single file in the flowplayer zip, just extracting it. Looking at my cherokee access log I can see that the swf file is being served fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.