Apache

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/interview_liam_bennett_creat...

I am always interested when a company uses GNU/Linux to create really, really useful services. When that company is in your own town, and I get to spend time with the person who created it and made it successful, I get even more excited! Liam Bennett manages eConfirm Inc, an Australian company that offers SMS sending — and responding — services, based on GNU/Linux. Here’s what Liam has to say about his experience with GNU/Linux and free software in general.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1019931

The ftp module for Apache hasn't been released yet as a stable module so you won't find it in the repositories, but you can build it pretty easily and the configuration isn't too much of a hassle.

http://httpd.apache.org/mod_ftp/
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/mod_ftp/

The downside is that it's not in widespread use and it's not as easy to find howtos for.

Unfortunately, I'll just be covering the basics here. By default this will allow anonymous connections. Many of the other directives are explained in the example ftpd.conf provided (and many of them didn't work for me).

http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/its-nearly-2009-open-source-he...

Last week, Saugatuck Technology published a new whitepaper that detailed the affect open source software has had on business and the affect business has had on open source.

The big takeaway--at least the one most touted in the follow-up blogs and news reports about the paper--is that open source is driven more by the contributions of corporations and vendor-run projects than by individual developers.

Upon reading this conclusion, and some of the others gleaned from the highlights of the paper, it strikes me that there is still this radical disconnect between what people think open source software is about versus what open source software is.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1019301

This applies directly to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

First, let's talk about the configuration files in /etc/apache2.

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
Ubuntu defaults. Don't play with this too much directly. Make minor modifications here, but store most of your customisations in httpd.conf.

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
An empty file. This is where you store all of your customisations. Here you should put things that are not already listed in apache2.conf.

This tutorial is for people who wants to make a web server using Ubuntu 8.04 or Hardy Heron that runs both PHP and JSP files together by using apache2 and tomcat5.5

In the terminal:

1. sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork apache2.2-common apache2-utils

2. sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps

Question:

A while ago a greated a .htaccess and a .htpassword file in order for me to password protect my main directory, however need to change the password but as it is encrypted in the file not sure how to change it

how do i change the file in order to specify a new username and password?

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/line_applications_just_work_...

An increasing number of computer users are turning to online applications instead of ones on their desktop. It started with webmail and has moved to productivity/office tools. With the emergence of online applications that have no desktop equivalent, and mobile devices that are browsers in your pocket, things are looking up. But what about free software? If the software we are using is not run on the computer on our desk/lap/hand what does the licence matter? For some time now I’ve been reading predictions where the browser will be the computer. Does this future have space for free software?

So here's what I did to get an Apache Web Server running in my house. I setup a very basic but totally cost-free server. Note: This guide is not for setting up LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), as I didn't need to run a database or scripting for my small website, so all we're using here is Ubuntu Linux and Apache Server.

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/is_microsoft_trying_to_kill_...

When the story about Microsoft shelling out $100,000 to Apache for ASF sponsorship broke across my radar it rather tickled my funny bone and my curiosity. When ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski declared that “Microsoft’s sponsorship makes it clear that Microsoft “gets it” regarding the ASF” I had a fit of the giggles—and then, like many others, I started to ponder on the reasons why and what it actually meant.