Sebastian's questions

I have the following mod_rewrite directive in my lighttpd config file:

url.rewrite-once = (
  "foo.*$" => "static/foo.pdf",
)

I'd like to hand out URLs like this: http://<server>/foo/r=ca2b912 (or similar), such that I can track the origin of the link in the http access log.

When I enter http://<server>/foo/r=131ab42, however, the "save-as" file dialog is shown and is proposing to name the file r=131ab42 (at least when using firefox). I'd like to have it propose foo.pdf as file name to save. This should work independent of the tool accessing the URL (ie. wget, IE, etc should all save the file as foo.pdf).

How can I achieve that? I've noticed that firefox corrects the file name when reloading the URL.

Please note: this is the first time I want to use a rewrite rule. I have tried to find the answer myself, but have not succeeded.

I don't know much about servers or virtualization. However, for the last years, I've been using a rented linux-vserver as my backup drive and for recording radio shows through cronjobs.

I ran out of disk space at this provider and always wanted a proxy in the US, so I'm thinking of this 100G openVZ offer.

I know I can't use lovely fuse inside the linux-vserver to mount the new box. This would be my preferred solution as it allows me to integrate everything seamlessly. Also openVZ by default doesn't allow this.

Is there a way to configure my servers such that their combined disk space shows up in a single location?

I'm overwhelmed by the many choices one has in website design. I'm probalbly asking something really easy to set up, but since I don't have any experience, I'm looking for help.

Current Setup

1. I've got a domain mydomain.com and ftp access to it. The apache webserver has mod_rewrite and perl installed (if that helps). I set up a subdomain user.mydomain.com that is currently pointing to the http://www.mydomain.com/user directory.

2. I've created a draft website running in the werc framework on a different linux machine. This server has no domain name, I can access it using the static IP or mywebsite.dyndns.org. werc supports virtual hosting, but I don't quite understand it and know if it helps me here. I'm running lighttp (w/ vhost and mod_rewrite) and have full root permission, so anything is possible on this end.

Problem

I would like to run the werc site inside the subdomain user.mydomain.com. The URL in the browser should be user.mydomain.com, i.e. no apparent redirecting to the actual werc server IP should take place.

What's the best way to achieve that? I tried mod_rewrite on the mydomain.com machine, but I could only redirect. I think one could use a seperate "frame" for the werc hosted site, but that feels a little unclean. E.g. what would happen to the <title> tag?

What are my options? Thanks in advance.

A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly):

• sendmail
• mail
• xmail
• ssmtp
• uuencode
• some mime scripts I found on the web using mail, that handle attachments.
• echo body text | mutt -s subject -a /etc/resolv.conf [other files] -- [email protected]

The issue of attaching a file was difficult, due to

• encoding issues
• mime types for binary files
• attaching multiple files failed (no clear boundaries between them)
• send text files as attachment, not in email body

but eventually it worked with mutt (with the command above). I would have preferred a method without the invocation of a big program, but I was fine with it.

At some point I stopped using it, because I always had to enter the email addresses by hand and I never remember them.

In order further facilitate command line sending,

is there an easy way to enable tab-completion for email addresses?

I guess there is some manual work involved, because I didn't find anything on the web. Building an email index (exported cvs from gmail) seems easy, but what if John Jerry uses [email protected] as his email address? It would be necessary to complete

• Jo<tab>
• Je<tab>
• ex<tab> and
• jj<tab>.

This must be somehow fed into the readline utility - I don't know if that's difficult, but I'm looking for an easy way, if there is one!