Archive for the tag ‘administration’

  • Get rid off phpmail()!

    Monday, August 31st, 2009 by stevie

    Dear sysadmins and developers,
    phpmail() IS OUT! Get rid off it. Now!
    One of the most common sources of spam are “hacked” webservers and poorly or even non-secured forms. By using phpmail the webserver must be allowed to send mails without checks for a valid sender. This results – mostly on a shared web host – in [...]

  • trac: upgrading trac with easy_install fails with “unexpected HTML page found”

    Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 by stevie

    When installing or upgrading trac on a Debian-like linux machine you might want to use the easy approach of the python setuptools. Trac can be installed or upgraded by using:
    easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/branches/0.11-stable
    Since the release of Subversion 1.5 the version of easy_install included in the Debian repository ran into a compatibility issue.