“You don’t have permission to access / on this server” in Ubuntu / Apache2 is due to not having the file system root (not the web site root) executable to Apache2. Every directory from the web site root up to the file system root must be executable by Apache2.
Author: John Nash
Mr. Nash is an experienced systems analyst/programmer and business manager who believes in giving back to the community through producing open source software.
Flash double speed fix
Ubuntu / Mint Audio or Flash problems. Two fixes that worked in my case. Seems to be conflicts with PulseAudio in several different ways. Installing Adobe-flashplayer instead of the Ubuntu version helps.
Setting Ubuntu Default Desktop (Session)
Testing to see if this works. Sometimes installing Ubuntu in a PC without 3D capable video hardware results in a non-bootable system: rather it boots but you can’t see anything, and since the default configuration is that OpenSSH-server is not installed, you can’t shell into it either. You can’t even use CTRL-ALT-F2 to change TTYs…
Protecting Your Web Site from Loss of Business
The Godaddy DNS outage was caused by internal error, not a hack. We should specify name lookup via more than one DNS company so that if one company is unavailable, the other will still work and access to our web sites will be unaffected by a single point failure.
VMWare Player and Ubuntu
VMWare has a habitual problem with NOT being usable in Ubuntu until several months after a release. I found a fix here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/130937/how-do-i-install-vmware-player-4-0-3. The bottom line is here: I based this on the instructions I found here: vmware player compile issue. To boil it down to the simplest steps: Download this tarball: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vmware802fixlinux320.tar.gz Extract the…