... you may see at the top of this page:

Warning: fopen("/home/groups/g/ge/geeklog/logs/error.log", "a") - Read-only file system in /home/groups/g/ge/geeklog/htdocs/lib-common.php on line 1322

is not a Geeklog misconfiguration but caused by SourceForge.net. As you may have noticed, all of sf.net was down for maintenance on Sunday and it seems some things still don't quite work yet.

Please be patient and there's no need to report this to the Geeklog team ...

bye, Dirk

Well, I've done some work with GL and am impressed. I've got the DB hosted on one machine, connected to the web server via a their own private network connection. Very fast, very cool. (I'll post pics and a story someday.)

Now, what I'm wondering is has anybody tried connecting two web servers to the same GL database? If so, would they have to share the same copy of the php scripts or not? As long as they both connect to the same MySQL DB, I'm thinking everything should be cool.

Polls do not work correctly for virtual sites on Mac OS X 10.2 from a regular install of GeekLog, the only flaw I have yet detected.

Mac OS X sets the environment variable REMOTE_ADDR to the IP of the server, not the remote user! Thus all votes appear to come from the same IP number.

As polls are restricted to one vote per IP number, only one vote can be cast for the entire site.

A quick fix is to put the following line at the beginning
of lib-common.php
$REMOTE_ADDR=$HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR;

which will set REMOTE_ADDR to the correct remote address.

Hi All,

I've recently managed to install Oracle 8.1.7 on my server and am now thinking of moving all my software from MySQL to Oracle. One of these applications is Geeklog. Now my question is... has anybody ever tried this before ? Has anybody any idea if this is feasible (where I consider rewriting all the SQL-statements a bit unfeasible).

Any thoughts are welcome.

Regards,
Bas van Reeuwijk

Knuckles has been gracious enough to donate a dual 1.7GHz Xeon machine. This server will be the future home of this site and other GL related stuff. Before I decide to each the cost, I thought I'd check to see if anybody has a PCI RAID controller they'd like to donate to the project that can handle 4x18.4GB SCSI disks. I also have 500MB of RAM and could use another 500MB if anybody has that. I know, it's a stretch but if any of you have this hardware and are willing to donate any hardware (or money to buy the hardware) please let me know. Email me if you are interested: tony@geeklog.net

From time-to-time on the geeklog-devel mailing list I see questions about backing up MySQL databases. The answer is pretty simple, write a shell script to do this for you, add it to your crontab or put it in one of the /etc/cron.* directories.

As some of my already know, you can use PHP as a shell scripting language. While as a pure shell language it lacks some of the power of, say, Bash, it is still a viable option for the PHP coder.

This script is a PHP shell script I wrote that will back up a MySQL database. If you already have PHP compiled as a CGI on your system (see php.net's install docs for how to do that) then you can drop this in and it should work fine. The script keeps 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups and 12 monthly backups which should make recovery much simpler.

In addition to the PHP CGI, you will need tar because the script will compress the database backups. For a point of reference, on my Geeklog database of over 500 stories and 450 users a backup is 1.6MB and only 515KB compressed. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

A new Geeklog website:

http://www.chmouel.org/

Full Geeklog but i still trying to see how to get the pic module loaded..

I am playing with LDAP for some IMAP stuff I am doing at work. Eventually I will need to have Geeklog and my IMAP server work together so that account creation, password updates and authentication work seemlessly between the two.

For that it seems that using LDAP makes the most sense. Aside from that it would take Geeklog a long way from being a toy for Geeks to a realistic intranet solution for businesses and organizations that already use LDAP.

On the other hand adding LDAP support could break the KISS principle (Keep-it-Simple-Stupid). What are the pros and cons to adding the LDAP authentication to Geeklog? Would you use it or would it be just a waste of time?

Hi,
I`m looking for a hosting with the "openssl" & "curl lib" installed. Always
under linux whith apache, php & mysql.

I need this hosting for install an api php4 for register, modify & update
domains.

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* The OpenSSL library (required by CURL for SSL support).
Tested with: OpenSSL 0.9.6
OpenSSL: http://www.openssl.org/

* The CURL library ("libcurl"). Support for CURL must be compiled into your
PHP installation. Be sure to configure CURL with "--with-ssl".
Tested with: libcurl 7.4.1
CURL: http://curl.haxx.se/
PHP instructions: http://www.php.net/manual/ref.curl.php
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Regards,
Korben Crack
korbencrack@yahoo.com

Why not point geeklog.org to the sourceforge site, so that it still serves some purpose?

Tane Sez: We did intend to do this, but never got around to it. This will hopefully be done sometime in the near future.