This is a copy/paste from a ticket, but I thought it might be use­ful. […] Just out of curi­ousity, is there any way to pro­vide sec­ondary access to a web­dev account? I’m busy build­ing sev­eral fac­ulty accounts, and I feel a bit weird ask­ing them to hand over their UW NetIDs and pass­words. […] As… Read More

You learn some­thing new every­day, eh? How true that is. We have a set of instruc­tions that walks some­one through using .htac­cess files to cre­ate groups to fine-tune access for small sets of users: http://www.washington.edu/itconnect/web/publishing/basic-group.html Today I learned that your group line has a max­i­mum size limit of 8196 bytes (exactly 8KiB). This is Apache’s MAX_STR_LENGTH, and… Read More

With the recent release of ver­sion 2.0 of the pop­u­lar Moo­dle plat­form and the upcom­ing start of a new aca­d­e­mic quar­ter, inter­est is high for upgrades and new installs on our depts/courses/fac/staff servers. How­ever, Moo­dle 2.0 requires PHP 5.2.8. Our servers are cur­rently run­ning PHP 5.2.6. Red Hat Enter­prise Linux 3 (which is what we… Read More

UW-IT pro­vides a disk space viewer tool that can quickly help you iden­tify your largest files. What it some­times doesn’t do a great job at is iden­ti­fy­ing fold­ers that are large, but con­tain lots of small files. These aren’t eas­ily seen. While you could use du (and sort, etc.) to get a rough list of your… Read More