Category: Linux

Using mod_rewrite rules for subdomains to subfolders

~ brandon

A URL address bar with www

From the land of things that were harder than they needed to be. Seems like you need a deep dive in everything to be able to do anything sometimes.

So, on this domain I wanted to use a single host to handle a few subdomains. One for my blog (which you’re on now), and maybe a couple of others for web classes or anything else I may want to mess around with.

Easy enough to do with subdomains and different document root folders on a standard server. And the hosting service does provide different document root folders. I ended up with different FTP root folders for each subdomain which is not what I was looking for. I wanted to use one FTP account and then just upload to the location I wanted for the subdomain I was updating.  Continue reading “Using mod_rewrite rules for subdomains to subfolders” →

CentOS – Job for network.service failed

~ brandon

Ugh. Ok, so something I came across today that I figured might help someone else out in the future. I’m setting up a new CentOS 7 box and while I was doing that I kept having intermittent network connectivity issues.  For some reason I decided NetworkManager needed to get out of my way… so I went about the process of disabling all that nonsense and went back to doing network config the way I know how. I set a reservation in DHCP (temporary), and set ifcfg-eth0 as a static IP along with all the other relevant pieces to get the interface manually configured.

Problem was I couldn’t get the network to come up. Here was my first issue:
prob1

Naturally I follow directions and ran “systemctl status network.service -l” and was greeted with:

prob2

Relevant bits highlighted. Now I’m pretty sure nothing is using that address since I got it from DHCP … so a bit of Googling led me to this link. The explanation here is that when ifup-eth runs it does an arping to determine if anything is using that address, and if anything replies then it exists the script. The offending section is this: Continue reading “CentOS – Job for network.service failed” →