Like I was saying after upgrading to version 0.4.11 I decided I wanted to close port 8080 (the one sabnzbd is using) to the outside word. Now I know apache has some nice proxy functions so it should be easy.

Make sure apache is compiled with the following modules: apache2_modules_proxy apache2_modules_proxy_http apache2_modules_proxy_balancer

That was the hard part. Now just add a vhost:


ServerName yourserver.com

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/a

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.sabnzb.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.sabnzb.log combined



This assumes that you have sabnzbd listening on localhost:8080. Now you probably do not want the whole world watching your downloads (or deleting them or whatever). So we just add some basic apache authentication, use htpasswd2 to create a file with authorized users and add the following lines into the location block.


AuthName "Login Required"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile <>
require valid-user


That is all.
Happy downloading!

First of all why is this a Warning? I mean I know I pressed Send. And besides that if it is a waring they should provide me with contact information on how to get my submission removed.

Now apart from the warning box it could be a message telling me everything is inserted into the database. Let say they have some java script in the background that does that and once everything is inserted it gives the warning (still a warning is wrong but OK). However I checked the source of the site and guess what? All the button does is generate the pop-up after which the stuff is submitted.

Now I’m wondering why people do this? It does not look good, since it is a wrong pop-up box. It does not speed up the process. It is wasting my time. Which in general I do not like.

Checkout my bash.org rss feed. It updates every 15 minutes. Enjoy

They their projector popped into my head. It has an USB-port. My laptop has an USB port. It did not take me to long to find out that I could do some nice things whit that. Acer has some software under windows. I was hoping they would have just posted the protocol online. But no. Ofcourse not. After browsing the Acer website and google. I could not find anything usefull about what command to send to the Projector (it does not help that Acer also creates a whole lot hardware).

So It was time to hookup my Laptop to the proejctor. Everything still works. And I was monitory /dev for any changes. The first thing to catch my eye was a bunch of new stuf in /dev/input. A mouse was automatically recognised. And it even worked. Moving some sort of analog stick around made my mouse move! Isn’t that magical!

However it is nice and all that I can use it as a mouse but who really cares? Now also tty12 was created. Which seems a lot more interesting. However I had ofcourse no idea what to send to the Projetor in order to get response. Now maybe I’ll hijack a Windows Laptop tomorrow and sniff some of the command send trough the USB port.

Ah well a nice project to work on during this vacation.

So 2 days ago something was wrong with the network. Don’t ask me what but it just was. All of the sudden no 10 mbit line. No it seemed like I was back at my old 56k6 modem. Damn. Pages not loading instantly. Man that is a pain in the ass. I had totally forgotten what it is like. That grabbing the source code for a random package can actually take more tan 1 minute or so :S

Well it is fixed now and I hope it won’t happen again.

Now I wanted to share some extra stuf on the server. For example the music, some files, photo’s etc. In windows they are all mounted. So I wanted to do the same on my linux boxes. Should be a piece of cake since a have a share dir on the server that holds all the stuff to be shared.

So I shared that dir via NFS. Mounting went easy. However. all the dirs were empty… Now why is that? Could it be some kind of dark magic? No it is just that NSF (for security probably) can only acces 1 partition per share. So now I have them all shared seperatly. Not a big deal ofcourse. BUt always good to know.

Now something else. The laptop is send with TNT, the post service in Holland. Now they have a nice track and trace system which allows me to enter the barcode and the postal code and well I know “where” the package is. However for some reason they do not have an rss feed on that. That would be something which it is perfect for. Ah well… I’m not sending packages that often… but still

But as it isn’t supposed to get jammed we had to get the screwdriver out. So after taking almost every screw out of the printer we finally got the part where the paper was jammed. A lot of poking and torning later all the paper was gone and we could put the printer back together. Now the whole point of this story is…

A printer always finds a way to get the paper jammed.

I tried visiting one of the sites hosted on the server but I got denied. I tried an other site but again denied. After going trough the logs and the (main) config file I only discovered that the permission was denied by Apache. Now it comes. The Apache config file has been split. So I had to check /etc/apache/modules.d as well. It would have been nice to have that in big blinking text after the emerge… But it turns out that the default settings were that Apache denied everyone…. now what is that about…. A webserver which default setup is to deny everyone….

But with that it wasn’t done.
A new issue with the new Apache is that not all the env vars are set correctly. The user you run under is Apache which it should be but the ~ is set to /root. So the svn viewer a friend of mine made wasn’t working anymore. Now that was fixed in the end by a simple adjustment in the calling of the code. But never the less it is an annoying thing that it isn’t set correctly. But I’m probably not the only one with the problem so maybe a new revision is already on its way.

Apache 2.2 is running sweet now. So take your time for it if you are doing the upgrade. But upgrading in general is not a bad idea of course.