Sorry for having the site offline, almost for 24 hours this time. The cause, a telco-telco migration of my DSL line! My ISP has been taken over by another larger ISP and now they are moving everybody to the new owners network. The actual move yesterday wasn’t announced, I only noticed I was suddenly offline while I wasn’t at home and couldn’t do a thing. We’ll see how they will perform and if it will become a buggy connection I guess I’ll have to get myself a different ISP.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, after complaining and blogging about the issue for some time it looks like it is going to be solved in the next release of MySQL. I received some updates on the bug report via email and it is released in version 5.0.40 Enterprise version, see the release notes. Now we only need to wait for the Community release….

The Apple TV has only been released for several days now and the hacks keep coming in ! I don’t have one yet and don’t see one coming in the near future as I just spend my alloted budget on a new PS3. Would love to hear from anyone who’s attempted to install Apache, Mysql and even the mailserver. I wish I could get my hands on one for a short period just to try it out… It would be one hell of a cheap server !

Maybe it is an idea to start a new donation round for one if people are interested in the results ?

Update: It looks like Apache was already found running on the Apple TV !

After the first steps on migrating the MySQL documentation and opening up this site I haven’t been sitting idle and waiting for all those new visitors. I’ve been rewriting the Apache2 install and configure documentation that I’ve had on the old site. I just finished it and it’s ready for you to use. I hope you’ll enjoy this version as much as you all did the last one. Just click on over to the Docs section to see it all. When all the documentation has migrated I will enhance the documentation a bit further and I think I’ll show you how to compile and install individual Apache2 modules.

MySQL has released a new version of the Community Server 5.0.33. This is a source-only release, which means that MySQL.com will not provide binary builds. You can read all about the new/changed functionality and bugfixes in the release notes. You can download the latest source version from the MySQL.com site.

Because of the new Community release policy, there will be source only releases between the full (binary) releases. I was unable to find out what the reason for it was or when a version qualifies for a binary release.

You can download the binary install of a previous version and do the source compile/install to get a functional 5.0.33 version running with all the goodies and defaults from the binary install (like a startupitem and preference pane).

Not everybody is a Terminal wizard and some people really love to use their mouse to do their stuff. It’s good to know for them that MySQL has a package of tools that allows you just to that. The pachage includes the following tools to administer, create and maintain your database:

MySQL Administrator
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/administrator/

MySQL Query Browser
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/query-browser/

MySQL Migration Toolkit
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/migration-toolkit/

MySQL Workbench
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Workbench

Just letting you know that the Courier-auth library got updated with a small bug fix that has no affect on us. It is a fix concerning anonymous LDAP binds and we don’t use LDAP in our setup. But it will explain why you will a see a new version when you go and download it. I’m using it myself and there are no changes to the workings in our setup, it works perfectly.

Well it has been a few days since I got the email for the new release of Apache and I was going to write about it sooner. But as happens often I got sidetracked and didn’t think of it until error reports came in via email and comments that there was something wrong with my compilation instructions.

It looks like we need an extra flag to compile properly namely the “--with-included-apr” option to force internal APR functionality and not from another package. The installation page has been updated accordingly !

There are more changes and bugs fixed besides this change, you can read all about them at the download page of apache, read the Changes file. I can’t link to it directly as it is dynamically altered to link to a mirror in your neighborhood.