Category: website

Invalid command ‘RPAFheader’, perhaps misspelled or defined

Posted on by primaryt

When you attempt to restart Apache you may see:
[Mon Jul 25 12:40:23 2011] [warn] module rpaf_module is already loaded, skipping
[Mon Jul 25 12:40:23 2011] [warn] module rpaf_module is already loaded, skipping

This means it has loaded the old rpaf module.. For me I had to jump into:
mods-enabled/rpaf.load

and comment out the old mod_rpaf module.

Simples!

How to install and use skipfish

Posted on by primaryt

Skipfish is a tool that can test your websites for exploits. Do not use skipfish to be evil.

# Note: Not using a package manager so the docs are cross OS.
# Note: Check for the latest version before doing the "Grab" parts.
Grab <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.18.tar.gz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.18.tar.gz</a>
tar -zxvf libidn-1.18.tar.gz
cd libidn-1.18
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

Grab <a href="http://skipfish.googlecode.com/files/skipfish-1.84b.tgz">http://skipfish.googlecode.com/files/skipfish-1.84b.tgz</a>
tar -zxvf skipfish-1.84b.tgz
cd skipfish-1.84b
make

# Refer to README if you want to not run a "heavy" test
cp dictionaries/complete.wl skipfish.wl

mkdir /tmp/skipfish
./skipfish -o /tmp/skipfish http://domain.com/

Primary Blogger – How to use your own domain

Posted on by primaryt

So you want to move your current website to primary blogger or use a domain you own.

An Example of this is http://www.wilsdenprimary.co.uk

You can do this for free by accessing your DNS control panel and creating a new A record for your domain.

Note: Having 2 entries means if one fails the visitor will automatically try the next. It also means we can load balance (Which is nice because PrimaryBlogger is huge).

Add entries called www that point to 94.136.53.6, 217.199.169.145 & 109.107.35.108 (Or modify your existing A record to point to these).

If you need assistance with this step please get in touch with Primary Technology.

Once you have set your DNS then log into your Primary Blogger Dashboard by visiting your blog and clicking Site Admin.

  1. Click Tools
  2. Click Domain Mapping
  3. Under add a new domain type in your domain name.
  4. Click OK
  5. Wait 24 hours.

You may want to let us know if you are going to do this.. Why? I hear you ask.. Well we have some clever caching in place that speeds up websites based on their hostname and if your hostname is not included it may mean your PrimaryBlogger blog does some weird things..