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Ack!
Posted by trylle in Uncategorized on May 10, 2009
Spent the last weeks aggroing over Vista’s Windows Explorer being incredibly sluggish. Just pressing F5 to refresh windows would make it “hang” (the progress bar keeps loading, but there’s never any conclusion).
However, by using ShellExView, I was able to locate the culprit: unlocker (an application intended to identify which processes are keeping locks on files).
After uninstalling the application and restarting explorer, everything was fine and dandy. 
Service Unavailable
Posted by trylle in Uncategorized on May 6, 2009
So, had my first issue with Surftown today after merely a couple of days since I published my dad’s redesigned site there. It was down 45 minutes (after I first noticed it) or so with the message “Service Unavailable.”
I do a bit of googling to research it and it seems to be a fairly common problem for Surftown users. My guess is that their IIS is overloaded, but maybe their support crew will enlighten me.
Installing WordPress
Posted by trylle in Uncategorized on May 6, 2009
Well, installing WordPress wasn’t quite hasslefree, but might be a bad debian package I used.
I had problems with uploading pictures, getting the dreaded “Is its parent directory writable by the server?” error. This turned out to be a directory which did not have proper permissions; /srv/www, in fact.
So, I ran
sudo chown o+rx /srv/www
Which allowed me to upload the images, but now another problem. The images were not showing up. This turned out to be due to a missing symlink in /usr/share/wordpress to /srv/www/wp-uploads/blog.metapathy.com.
Right! So, I added the symlink by running
ln -s /srv/www/wp-uploads/blog.metapathy.com /usr/share/wordpress/wp-uploads
and that would be that, you’d think. But, no, they still weren’t working! Now apache was getting mad and forbidding me to access it, so I started looking at what I had done with my apache configuration (I had been following this guide). Turns out I needed to use Options +FollowSymLinks rather than merely Options FollowSymLinks.
And now it finally seems to be working properly. 