This is for Ubuntu 8.10 Server

I’m not sure if this is an “Ubuntu Gotcha’ ” or not, but adding htaccess and htpasswd protection to folders was slightly different than other distro’s I’ve used.

Most distros have you edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or /etc/apache/httpd.conf and allow to appropriate folder access, like so:

<Directory "/www/">

AllowOverride All

</Directory>

This is NOT the file you edit with Ubuntu, you actually edit “/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default” and use your AllowOverride in there. After you set that restart Apache your htaccess and htpasswd files should be seen and used now.

Like I said, I may be off on this, but I think this is one of those “Ubuntuisims” and I couldn’t find much documentation out there on it.

Hopefully this can help someone one day.

Laurie, Al, Jon N, Mark M, Kevin M and his fiance Ronnie, Linda K, and Joe K, all ran the Super 5k race today in Narragansett RI.  I was going to run the race but, I ended up getting a chest cold so I decided to go and take pictures insted.  The weather was beautiful, 40+ degrees in Febuary in New England is rairity, and the sun on top of it made for beautiful running weather.

Onto the photos:

http://rearsync.com/photography/?Album=Super_5k

Well I got myself a new video card, an HIS IceQ4 HD 4850 Turbo from Microcenter, and while I was there, I also picked up a 1TB Seagate HD as well. I’m now rocking the 1TB HD with 32mb cache/3gbs and life is much quiter than my old Western Digital 74GB raptor 10,000 rpm HD.   I threw in the video card and was blown away by the graphics on Crysis; I know ‘blown away’ isnt much of a benchmark but I figured it was something, maybe I’ll post up 3dmark scores later.

I also downloaded Windows 7 tonight as well to see what that’s like.  Tommrow I will install it and see how she goes.  And after that I will OF COURSE be putting Ubuntu 64bit on and see whats up with that with my 8gb or RAM.

’till then!

-Nick