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brokenop – punishing children
In my opinion, children these days, should be beat, and not heard.
brokenop
I'll be authoring on another blog, brokenop (broken opinion) which is a blog about opinions, started by Dro, in an attempt for him and authors (me) to make money off a blog. So read, click ads, make us money.
I'll mirror my posts their here in an excerpt form that links to the full post.
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Also Anicho is going to hack me SO BAD. Watch out, I might be hacked (or I might already be!)
Later.
modpython and stuff
So since I've started learning python as stated in my last post, I decided I'd start playing with mod_python. I first started looking at mod_python after emailing rupa who I know as the author of ix.io, and sprunge.us (which are both python). After he recommended either mod_wsgi or mod_python, I went with mod_python after being totally confused with mod_wsgi installation, and I personally like how mod_python works vs. mod_wsgi, and for the beginning of this article, I'm just going to put a small tutorial for debian-server users who are newbies like me when it comes to apache.
1. install the packages
I personally installed the packages, if you choose to install from source more power to you, but with debian's apache install, installing mods from source is slightly confusing.
Now, assuming you're using debian's apache package, and have python2.5+ installed, use:
$ apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
2. load the module
Now, with debian's apache package, you need to use the following commands to load the mod_python module to apache:
$ cd /etc/apache2/mods-available
$ mv python.* ../mods-enabled
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
3. make it work
Now, you need to cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and do the following:
/var/www
If you're using /var/www for your website(s), then use the following configuration in default (or in my case, 000-default (symlink to default in ../sites-available)):
<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all AddHandler mod_python .py PythonHandler mod_python.publisher PythonDebug On </Directory>
Now, I used the next method I'm about to show, but I did this anyway, just in case. Does it matter if this is in default? I don't know for sure.
users
This is the method I'm using, which allows to enable it for certain users, in this example I made a file called james in sites-enabled and put the following in it:
DocumentRoot /home/USER/public_html/ AddHandler mod_python .py PythonHandler mod_python.publisher PythonDebug On
4. restart!
Now, you need to restart apache with the following command:
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
5. test
Now to be sure it works, create a file, testing.py in the area you enabled it for, and put the following code in it:
def index(): print "Hello world!"
If it works, you should view the file from your browser and see Hello world!
Well, this is the end of this tutorial, I can't guarantee it'll work, but it did for me, and I know I was a little irritated since I couldn't find any straight forward tutorials about this, so I figured I'd make my own for someone else who may be looking around, if something is wrong with my tutorial, or anyone wants to plug theirs or others, feel free to comment.
It sucked.
People read this, apparently. My last post wasn't like my usual ranting and going on, and "it sucked". So I'm never going to try what I did in my last post again. I'll go on with my usual banter.
We've finally moved into the new house, most the stuff is moved in, and the internet is back on, obviously. This house is much larger then the last house, which is great. More room to move around, and more room for the boatload of stuff we have. I might put pictures up later somewhere so readers can view my second class living arrangements. But I like it. Our landlord Mr. Wiggins is a full time musician, which I find great, being a musician myself.
So, going on. School is about to start for most people, means it's time for me to find a job. Soon the hunt will commence, hopefully I'll find something that doesn't outright suck, and something in my expertise...
I started this on the 20th and now it's the 29th, har. Nine days and nothing new, how thrilling. I've decided to get back into the forum scene, as well as Monie and I (after obtaining a web design..) are going to start working on Web Grounds, and another side project. I myself have started learning a little about git, and learning how to use github. Right now I plan to busy myself with a customizable pastebin that I'm working on (open source), will have things no other pastebin has, more to come later.
I've decided I need to start doing some work to this site, since it's looked the same since I started it, for the most part. Probably not going to change the skin, can't find many decent WordPress themes that I don't have to pay for, and I can't currently make one myself. I figure with my love for WhatPulse, I'll add a stats bar on the right side bar under my status bar, which for those that don't know, shows my status on SinIRC (away, online, offline). Anyone that actually reads this can feel free to make suggestions to what I can do to make this site a little less lame.
I've decided to start learning German, finally. I've obtained Rosetta Stone with quite a few languages, and started Lesson one this morning. I loved it. Very interesting way to teach, I recommend anyone wanting to learn a language to give Rosetta Stone a go. After German, I plan to move onto Spansh, then probably Italian, I have a handful to chose from, so I'm good to go for a while. Maybe I could become a linguist?
I can't think of a lot more to post, and I'm lacking sleep, so I'll ramble on until I'm totally out. Zuwer rick rolled me on skype last night, I've never seen this before till he rick rolled me, and recommend everyone watch it, check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO3OMGKPpw. Tis epic.
Last weekend(?) I went to Zarnithon's, while I was at his house, I showed him a ARG, was hilarious. I'd link to it, but I can't remember the IP address where you discover most this junk. Anyway, the site is a flash site disguised as Google. Anyway, you type in the right word, and it goes full screen, turns into (what at first glance seems like) a live feed of a girl in a small white room. The scene differs when you go to watch it over and over, though whoever made all of it is a genius. Continuing, as Robert (Zarn) sees it, he looks at me and says "I was waiting for it to turn into a video of us and I was going to start running." in so many words. I lol'd, totally hilarious. I can totally see it too. Only if it did happen, I can see him shooting back his chair, jumping out, while yelling "AHH", and running out of the room. For the reader, it's not as humorous, seeing nobody reading this probably knows him.
I'm done, for great justice.
a spoon full of sugar…
Delicious.
So, I was away for a couple of weeks (just got back this Monday) to see family and friends in GA, was a nice visit, enjoyed myself, and finally had a chance to jam with some friends seeing I don't have anyone here in Florida to do that with. Now that I'm home I have to catch back up on various things, mainly schoolwork. I guess during this next week I might start working on Zaphyous- make the user system, profiles, etc, have some new ideas with what I'm going to do with Zaphyous.com rather then just being a web development site for Zarnithon and I.
Other stuff.. I finally bought Sindacio.us, and have absolutely no idea what to do with it, figure I might just make some IPv6 vhosts out of it, and use it for a web testing ground. Started learning python, and I've recently started (but not began) a new site project, and a few friends will be joining in. To keep it short, it'll be a multi functional sprunge.us, more details to come in the future. SinIRC is doing fine, working on things here and there, thinking of things to give the users a better experience on the network.
I don't know a lot more to say, so, I'll just plug a few websites in here...
Mochi-Subs.com - new fan sub group owned by a friend of mine.
Twitter - link to my twitter.
Another site.
Well, after about a year of hosting Sindacious.com from my friend Eric's server, something happened and all my data was erased. This was unexpected, however I don't believe I had anything of importance on the server (other then the original design of Sindacious.com, which I might be able to get out of his backup), so all is well. Since this event I've moved Sindacious.com over to the same place I host SinIRC.net and Zaphyous.com, on Extroverthost.com. I'll post more useless information nobody cares about when I mess with the template a little more, and get stuff back to how it was, and probably going to move this to /blog/ and make some random splash page.