I was reviewing some logs today and noticed that the word ‘combined’ was showing up as every line of the log file, rather than the actual combined log data. It turns out I had accidentally commented out the line that defines what combined means: #LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" combined

For a minute, I thought my comments were not working or were being blocked on this site. I could post one comment, but anything after that didn’t work. I spent most of the morning trying to figure out why it was happening and thinking I’d broken something while tweaking my theme or something. I also wondered if it was some type of built in spam protection that I didn’t know about. Then, as I was browsing through the...

I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out how to get the mod_jk connector working so that I can use tomcat and httpd together. The problem, like most linux operations, is that it’s very poorly documented. Not only that, but the decent documentation you find is either outdated or is very specific to the writers desired configuration, and things don’t always work right when you try to revert those instructions back...