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How to use vhost.conf in Plesk

Maybe you need to do some specific configurations for a domain or subdomain and you tried to do directly in httpd.include file. You saw that it works for the momment but plesk will delete again your specific configurations from this file. So, in this case the answer is vhost.conf file. This file will be placed inside your domain’s conf directory, usually found at /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf. Create a file called vhost.conf in whatever editor you prefer. I use vim.

You can now put in any Apache configuration options like you would into httpd.include. In my case I wanted to do only one thing, to have subversion repository accesible over web, without any kind of access restriction.
Here is my vhost.conf file:

    DAV svn
    SVNPath /home/svn

Now, you need to tell Plesk to update it’s information.
You have to run:

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com

this will configure plesk only for one single domain, in this case domain.com
If you want to configure it for all sites run:

    # /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/websrvmng -a

After this command if you look to httpd.include file, will see that your httpd.include will have an include line for your vhost.conf, something like this:

    Include /srv/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf

There is also a vhost.conf file for subdomain in their DocumentRoot directory, if you want to do some specific things for subdomain.

That's all, bye!

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Backup & Recovery for a subversion repository

Create a backup of the repository using the following command:

    svnadmin dump /path/to/repository | gzip > repository-backup.gz

Run the svnadmin recover command on the repository:

    svnadmin recover /path/to/repository

Delete any unused log files in the repository:

    svnadmin list-unused-dblogs /path/to/repository | xargs rm -vf

Delete any remaining shared-memory files in the repository:

    rm -f /path/to/repository/db/__db.0*
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Dump/Restore for Subversion Repository

Data repository dump:

Dump first entry to current:

    svnadmin dump /home/svn/repos --revision 0:HEAD > repos.dump 

Dump revision 150 to current:

    svnadmin dump /home/svn/repos --revision 150:HEAD --incremental > repos-150.dump 

Data repository load:

First load:

    svnadmin load /home/svn/repos < repos.dump 

Incremental load:

    svnadmin load /home/svn/repos < repos-150.dump
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How to install Microsoft Core Fonts on Suse 10.2

Installing Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the web on any rpm based linux box with TrueType support is now easy:

I will show you a few solutions with the same final result :)
1. download the .spec file:

    wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* build the binary rpm with:

    rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* install the package:

    rpm -ivh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

* reload xfs server

    /sbin/service xfs reload

2. a)
Get the install script:

    wget http://penguinfonts.com/packages/fetchmsttfonts.sh

* And run it as root:

    sh ./fetchmsttfonts.sh

b)
Or you can build an rpm package, get the spec file:

    wget http://penguinfonts.com/packages/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* Then build it:

    rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* Then install the resulting rpm file:

    rpm -i /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

* reload xfs server

    /sbin/service xfs reload

3. just download and install this package:

MicrosoftFonts-1-jen14.noarch.rpm

The fonts are: Andale Mono, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings. Andale, Courier New and Lucida Console are monospaced fonts that are suited for terminal apps.

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News feed reader in Opera browser

Here are some tips & tricks for Opera browser:

News feed reader

* to mark all messages inside a feed as read: CTRL + SHIFT + a

* show the news only for current week and the new posts at the top. For this you have to edit .opera/mail/index.ini, is necessary to do this modifications for every feed :

Model Age=1
Sort Type=4
Sort Ascending=0

* the update frequency at every 30 minutes:

Update Frequency=1800
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Protect a web directory with password

    vim /path/of/your/dir/.htaccess

Paste this into:

    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Private Dir"
    AuthUserFile /path/of/your/dir/.htpasswd
    require valid-user

Then we must create the password file /path/of/your/dir/.htpasswd.

We want to log in with the username "user", so we do this:

    htpasswd -c /path/of/your/dir/.htpasswd user

Enter a password for "user", and you're done!