A Noted Path by Theodore Nguyen-Cao

So I’ve still been trying to get mod_proxy_balancer installed. I tried just getting a compiled mod_proxy_balancer.so and drop it into my existing apache2 install but upon start up I get:

Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so: undefined symbol: proxy_hook_post_request

Looks like I have to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of apache2 from source. I’ll have to resetup svn (svn_dvn) and all my virtual hosts so this blog is going to be MIA while I go through this process.

I can’t wait until the Ubuntu repositories update apache2 to 2.2 so mod_proxy_balancer support will be as simple as apt-get install apache2.

I think the next step is to remove my existing apache2 install and give kodefoo’s tutorial a shot.

After I installed WordPress, the first thing I did was go in search for a WordPress theme. I started off at LifeHacker. After a search for all things wordpressy, I came across a post for 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen. After scrolling down a bit, I found Peaceful Rush which is a great match with the title of this blog. So far, I think it’s looking good

Trying out the WP-Syntax WordPress plugin:

public class Hello {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Hello World!");
  }
}

Check it out at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/

Here’s a pretty cool WordPress plugin that lets Google know about your blog:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

After trying to keep a blog numerous times already, I am committed to keep this one going!

It took me awhile to get setup after rebuilding my slice (I am hosted by SliceHost). Most of the time was spent having to google the commands I had to run and figuring out missing apache modules since this is all new to me. It’s been a good learning experience though

But after 4 hours, I’ve setup the following

• 256mb Ubuntu slice
• apache2
• mysql
• subversion
• php
• ruby/rails

Next steps are to get Java and Tomcat installed, as well as a sample Rails app up and running.