Thursday, September 22, 2011

Add an Apache2 virtual host in Ubuntu

Add the following file into /etc/apache2/sites-available
fart:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin jerome.gallinari@gmail.com
    ServerName fart.ulticom.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>


Activate the vhost: this creates a symlink from sites-enabled to sites-available
sudo a2ensite fart
Activate the new configuration
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Make a correspondance between the new vhost and the local host
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost fart

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Cannot access QNAP administration page

Symptoms: Accessing to the QNAP web administration page (http://192.168.1.102:8080) gives a blank page. Curiously, this does not happen with IE9 or Chrome, but only with Firefox 6 and does not concern access via https.

Solution: This is related to the filtering of web pages by Eset NOD32 v5.
To fix this:

NOD32 Setup | Web access protection | Configure
Web and email | Web access protection | Protocol filtering | Excluded IP addresses
and add address 192.168.1.102

Monday, September 5, 2011

How to access a guest Ubuntu web server installed in VirtualBox from a Windows 7 host OS

1) Reserve the IP address of the VirtualBox VM in the router DNS, e.g. 192.168.1.103

2) In C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, add
192.168.1.103 fart.ulticom.com Then http://fart.ulticom.com on W7 will match the root document of the Apache web server on Ubuntu.